Abolitionists, 174, 289, 290, 305,
396
Adams, Charles Francis, minister
to England during Civil War,
420-424
Anti-slavery days, 326, 327, 392,
393
Benjamin, Judah P., 121, 122
British Government and United
States, their relations during
Civil War period, 41, 42, 50-
53, 210, 222, 223, 303, 305,
331, 420-423, 425, 514
Brown, Hon. George, founder and
editor of The Toronto Globe,
46, 47, 49, 50, 52
Brown, John, 45.
Canada, Lincoln's significance to,
and political situation in, 35,
42-44, 46, 47, 49, 50; slavery
in, 44, 46; refuge for fugitive
slaves, 44, 45; Southerners
and their sympathizers go to,
at outbreak of war, 47, 48;
attitude of, during Civil War,
47, 48
Canadians in Union Army, 48, 49
Carr, Col. Clark E., 65
Cautious men, 20
Chase, Salmon P., 302, 303, 419,
503, 504
Civil War, closed, 12; causes
which made inevitable, 33;
had its counterpart in Can-
ada, 43; attitude of Canada
during, 47, 48; Lincoln and
Grant during, 144-147; out-
break of, 302, 329, 330, 348,
446, 452; conduct of, 304,
331; cost of, 306; a 'peo-
ple's war," 450; attitude of
England toward, see British
Government and United
States, their relations during
Civil War period; attitude of
Italy toward, 533
Congress, Lincoln's relations with,
500, 501, 504, 505; in recon-
struction period, 502, 503
Conversation, the business of life,
19
"Cotton, King," as determining
agent in war, 51, 52, 286, 287,
514
Darwin, Charles, as great contem-
porary of, and compared with,
Lincoln, 15, 16, 78, 310, 410-
412
Davis, David, 69, 162, 208
Davis, Jefferson, 38, 48, 262
Democracy in North America, 35,
37-43, 46, 47, 53, 54
Democratic party, 69, 141, 142
Douglas, Stephen A., 117, 121, 122,
162, 288, 324, 378, 393, 394,
398, 409; see also under Lin-
coln, debates with Douglas
Illinois fittingly gives tribute to
Lincoln, 33, 76, 84; legal
practice and courts in, dur-
ing Lincoln's life, 154-164,
201, 203-209, 211, 225-227,
268; the State between 1837
and 1861, 160; in Lincoln's
boyhood, 389
Jackson, "Stonewall," 33
Japanese relations with United
States, 244-246
Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 231
King of Rome contrasted with
Lincoln, 113, 114
Labor question, slavery a phase
of the, 276, 290-293
Leader of a nation, essentials of,
Lee, Robert E., 33, 437
Lincoln, Abraham -
family of, 319, 410, 483
belonged by birth to South, 59,
73, 134, 176, 264, 497
youth of, 16, 17, 19, 59-61, 73,
114, 131-134, 154, 175, 178,
179, 192, 195, 256, 261, 267,
268, 294-298, 319-321, 343,
362-364, 376, 389, 390
self-trained, and investigating
for himself, 59, 61, 63, 131-
134, 138, 160, 176, 178, 193,
296-298, 320, 321, 363, 364,
377
education, see self-trained, etc.
personal appearance, 22, 70, 71,
277, 309, 318, 517
story of his life familiar, 14,
34, 154, 280, 343
language used by, 59, 61, 66, 67,
120, 121, 138, 278, 297, 335,
336, 420-422; see also as
orator
stories told concerning, 19, 116,
120, 300, 307, 308, 339, 404,
487, 525
wit and humor of, 20, 21, 81,
172, 173, 188, 299, 307, 308,
335, 486
story-telling characteristic of,
21, 80, 307, 394
characteristics of, 18-32, 34, 36,
54, 55, 61-64, 68, 71-73, 114-
122, 138, 159-162, 172, 173,
176-178, 193, 201, 202, 211,
220, 242, 255-260, 263-266,
282-285, 298-304, 306-310,
318, 321, 329, 330, 334-342,
356, 364-369, 376-381, 394,
395, 451, 453, 456, 457, 462-
467, 474-478, 486-488, 490,
500, 501, 503, 504, 513, 514,
517, 524, 525
of frontierman and pioneer type,
22, 23, 60-64, 66, 319, 389
patent taken out by, 61
his belief in dreams, 74, 486
religion of, 81, 125-127, 282,
283, 336, 369
an optimist, 31
isolation of, 16, 54, 55, 178, 179
prophetic imagination of, 257,
486
conversation important to, 19
an all-round man-a "man of
the people "not represent-
ing a class or profession, 23-
27, 36, 62, 63, 101, 138, 176,
490
admission to the bar and law
practice, 154-165, 171, 201,
203-209, 211, 225-227, 268,
296-300, 322, 323, 378
in State legislature, 154, 159,
165, 166, 175, 204-207, 300,
321, 322, 325, 377, 378, 447
speeches (other than debates
and Cooper Institute speech),
Bloomington, 1856 and 1858,
225, 228, 232-238, 395-397;
Springfield, 1858, 234
"lost speech," 238, 396
senatorial campaign of 1858, 36,
141, 186, 285, 325, 327, 397-
399, 408, 443
debates with Douglas, 83, 120,
135, 140-142, 171, 176, 177,
185-188, 210, 234, 268, 285,
301, 302, 325, 327, 336, 339,
368, 378, 391, 393-395, 399-
407, 443, 497
Cooper Institute speech, 135, 136,
171, 176, 177, 234, 277, 278,
281, 285, 286, 328, 336, 337,
408, 443
nomination and presidential cam-
paign, 68-70, 177, 185, 191,
236, 277, 281, 295, 302, 328,
444
as President, 37, 38, 171, 172,
210, 302, 303, 307, 309, 329,
378, 381, 445-448, 451, 452
abused and lampooned, 11, 62,
68, 70, 71, 123, 124, 258, 347,
348, 355, 366-368, 375, 376,
380, 452, 497
First Inaugural Address, 39, 121,
127, 139, 152, 163, 168, 192,
221, 255, 264, 337, 445, 481,
496
Second Inaugural Address, 59,
149, 218, 268, 269, 297, 321,
337, 369
Gettysburg address, 57, 59, 64-
66, 136-138, 165–170, 188, 268,
297, 310, 368, 369, 498
as orator, 185-189, 268, 301, 368
Emancipation Proclamation, see
under Emancipation
Cabinet, relations with, 122, 268,
302-304, 419-422, 424-428,
446, 447, 449, 450, 486, 503
Congress, relations with, 500,
501, 504, 505
his calls for men, 39, 294, 446
his personal conduct of the war,
304, 307, 447, 453
his determination to save the
Union, 12, 39, 124, 144, 221,
305, 348, 351, 352, 355, 356,
446, 448, 449
as diplomat, 41, 42, 242, 243,
246; see also British Govern-
ment and United States,
their relations during Civil
War period
his significance to democracy,
35-44, 46, 47, 50, 53, 54
the world-citizen, 34, 53, 54
how regarded by the South, 33,
relations with U. S. Grant, 143-
147; see also Grant, U. S.
autobiography of, 231
and the negroes, 332-334, 338
statesmanship of, 82-84, 118,
119, 223
greatness of, 33, 34, 99, 172-
174, 207, 341, 342, 347, 462,
477, 478, 485, 490
death of, 34, 35, 142, 150, 152,
194, 221, 265, 266, 269, 279,
310, 340, 370, 428, 429
his remains lie in state, 58, 310
reaction of feeling occasioned
by his death, 11, 68, 310, 334,
347
duration of public career, 171
uncompleted life of, 18, 221, 222
lessons to be learned from, 56-
58, 128, 129, 172, 224, 258,
344, 370, 371, 376, 387, 388,
413
inspired words true of, 370
quotations from, 36, 57, 74, 115,
118, 125-127, 146, 147, 149, 152,
163, 166-168, 170, 173, 202,
231, 233, 234, 255, 264, 269,
283-291, 293, 300, 301, 321,
324, 348-350, 356, 381, 397,
398, 403-408, 444, 448, 449,
454, 455, 496
Lovejoy, Owen, Lincoln's estimate
of, 503
Marshall, Chief Justice, 165-170
McCormick, Cyrus, 85, 209, 424
Mexican War, 301, 405
Missouri Compromise and its re-
peal, 46, 140, 163, 219, 229,
230, 237, 287, 288, 302
Monuments to soldiers, 151; to
great men, 271, 272
Myths, 345
Napoleon compared with Wash-
ington and Lincoln, 472, 473
Negro, problem of the, 92-98, 104-
112; cause of Civil War, 104,
106
Negro soldiers in war, 111, 331
Negroes and Lincoln, 332-334, 338
New York, impossible to conceive
of Lincoln as having been
born in, 23
Nineteenth century, significant
events of, 14, 15, 174, 217,
218, 364
North, the, honors Southern lead-
ers, 33
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