"With Lincoln, we think of the poor boy from the log cabin who studied law by candlelight. As a lawyer, he represented ordinary people at reasonable prices from his spartan law office where he drafted documents by quill pen and earned the sobriquet of Honest Abe. He used rhetorical skills in the campaign for a seat in the Senate against the capable adversary Stephen Douglas. His inherent morality led him to free the slaves and to save the union." --The Lawyer and Popular Culture  Proceedings of a Conference, The Lawyer as Hero? Gerard J. Clark http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/conf/clark.htm