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FOREWORD

HIS book has grown out of a desire which the editor

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had while Secretary of the Lincoln Centennial Memorial Committee of One Hundred, appointed by the Mayor of Chicago, for a memorial volume which should give permanent form to the many masterly tributes to Lincoln by noted men which marked this unique Centenary, and should preserve to history the remarkable spirit of the occasion.

The editor undertook the work, anticipating that it would be a considerable task, but with no real conception of its magnitude. There are in his library hundreds of unused speeches and over sixty thousand clippings with reference to the celebration. It has been literally impossible to examine the entire material at hand in the few months which have elapsed since the Centenary, but the principal addresses have been gone through, and while the limits of this volume have excluded many of great value which it was hoped to bring within the collection, it is believed that those published are thoroughly representative of the celebration.

The editor wishes to give credit to the Lincoln Centennial Memorial Committee of Chicago, which, under the guidance of Hon. William J. Calhoun as chairman, did such magnificent work in the Centenary celebration and whose existence and initiative have made the publication of this book possible.

To the committees, throughout the country and abroad, municipal or the result of private enthusiasm and patriotism, which have been of notable aid in the work of securing the desired material for this volume, grateful acknowledgment is due.

The editor is indebted to the Trustees of the Crerar Fund for permission to use the photograph of the yet unveiled Saint-Gaudens statue of Lincoln; to President Henry G. Foreman of the South Park Commissioners for the photograph used; to Adolph Alexander Weinman, sculptor of the Hod

genville statue of Lincoln, for a photograph of the statue for use as an illustration; to his brother sculptor, John Gutzon Borglum, for an autograph photograph of the famous "Borglum bust" unveiled in the Senate February 11, 1909; to the Rt. Hon. Jean Adrien Jusserand, the French Ambassador, for the loan from his private collection of the photographic reproductions of the letters of Mrs. Lincoln and Victor Hugo; to Hon. Robert T. Lincoln for the photograph of the French medal; to Mr. N. Y. Dallman, Managing Editor of The Illinois State Register of Springfield, for the picture of distinguished guests at the Lincoln Tomb; to Mr. Brainard Platt, Acting Managing Editor of The Louisville Courier-Journal for his courteous assistance in securing photographs of the presidential party at the Hodgenville celebration; to The Uptown Kodackery of Denver, for their prompt courtesy in securing for us some exceptionally fine photographs of the Denver celebration; to Collier's Weekly, for permission to use President Roosevelt's Lincoln speech at Hodgenville; to The Chicago Tribune for permission to use the McCutcheon cartoons, and to reprint Booker T. Washington's "An Ex-Slave's Tribute to Lincoln," and for other courtesies; to the other Chicago newspapers, and the newspapers throughout the country, and to The Literary Digest, Review of Reviews, and other magazines, for copies of special issues containing information important to the purpose of this work.

The editor here expresses his sense of obligation to his wife for her help and suggestions, and to his friend and associate, Herbert E. Bradley.

The editor will be glad to receive from readers of this book, copies of any speeches delivered during the Centenary, or interesting facts connected with its Commemoration; and would be especially interested in personal recollections of Lincoln, or of Lincoln's associates and time.

NATHAN WILLIAM MACCHESNEY.

UNION LEAGUE CLUB, CHICAGO,

February, 12, 1910.

CONTENTS

THE CHICAGO COMMEMORATION

The Unity of the Nation (A Speech of Introduction)

Hon. William J. Calhoun .

Abraham Lincoln: A Man of the People

President Woodrow Wilson

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A Citizen of No Mean Country (A Speech of Introduction)
Hon. Frank Hamlin

The Significance of Lincoln

Hon. J. A. Macdonald .

A Memory of Lincoln (A Speech of Introduction)

Hon. Charles H. Wacker

Abraham Lincoln of Illinois

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President Edwin Erle Sparks .

The Figure of an Age (A Speech of Introduction)

Hon. Stephen S. Gregory .

The Great Commoner

Dr. Emil G. Hirsch

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The Other Side of the Question (A reply to the Speech of W. J.

Calhoun)

Rev. A. J. Carey .

The Cathedral Utterance of Lincoln

Dr. Charles J. Little .

The Literary Side of Lincoln

Dr. Bernard J. Cigrand

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A Vision (Poem)

Julia Ward Howe

The Great Pacificator

Hon. John D. Long.

Lincoln: "Valiant for Truth”

Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge.

THE CINCINNATI COMMEMORATION
Abraham Lincoln-An Appreciation
Bishop William F. McDowell .

THE ROCHESTER COMMEMORATION

Lincoln: The True American

Hon. Charles Evans Hughes .

THE MADISON COMMEMORATION

The Great Stone Face

President C. R. Van Hise

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The Great Debate; or, The Prophet on the Stump

Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones .

THE DENVER COMMEMORATION

Abraham Lincoln: The Perfect Ruler of Men

Joseph Farrand Tuttle, Jr.

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