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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