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[1] ADS, ORB. For an account of Isachar Zacharie's activities, see Bertram W. Korn, American Jewry and the Civil War (1951), pp. 194-202. Zacharie's testimonials from Lincoln and members of the cabinet were so well publicized by the chiropodist that they provoked a humorous article in the New York Herald, October 3, 1862, which began by observing that ``It is a true but trite maxim that great events are determined by insignificant causes. . . . The fact may be a singular one; but from evidence before us we are inclined to believe that many of the haps and mishaps of the nation, during this war, may be traced to a matter no greater than the corns and bunions which have afflicted the feet of our leaders. . . .'' The writer further pointed out that ``The President has been greatly blamed for not resisting the demands of the radicals; but how could the President put his foot down firmly when he was troubled with corns?''