THE Character and Public Services OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. BY WM. M. THAYER, PUBLIC BOSTON: DINSMOOR AND COMPANY, 33, SCHOOL STREET. 1864. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by WALKER, WISE, AND COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. BOSTON: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SON No. 5, Water Street. CONTENTS. Character and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln 9 AMIABLE BOYHOOD AND MANHOOD.- ELECTED PRESIDENT. SPEECH AT SPRINGFIELD. HIS REQUEST SUBLIME. SPEECH AT NEW YORK. — BEFORE OHIO SENATE. HIS WELCOME AN OVATION. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE HIM. - HIS INAUGURATION AND ADDRESS. ITS ELOQUENT APPEAL TO ENEMIES. HIS STYLE CLEAR AND FORCIBLE.-. DEEP INTEREST IN THE SOLDIERS. VISITS LIEUT. WORDEN. VISITS THE WOUNDED. HIS INTERVIEW WITH REBELS. QUALITIES. INTERVIEW WITH THREE LITTLE GIRLS. — COUNTING GREENBACKS FOR A NEGRO.- RECEIVING A TRACT. A DESCRIPTION OF HIM BY A CLOSE OBSERVER. -HIS DAILY LIFE, BY PERLEY.' DESCRIPTION OF HIM BY AN ENGLISH WRITER.-A REMARKABLE EULOGIUM. HIS SINGLENESS OF PURPOSE, AND CONSISTENCY. NEVER VACILLATES. HIS LETTER TO A. G. HODGES, ESQ. -WORDS OF MRS. STOWE. HIS MARKED HONESTY. HE STUDIES TO FOLLOW PROVIDENCE. -LETTER FROM A DEMOCRAT. HE HAS NO VICES.A TEMPERANCE MAN. HIS INTELLECTUAL POWER. WORSTED JUDGE DOUGLAS. -TRIBUTE TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. OPINION OF SENATOR TRUMBULL.- EULOGY BY TWO FRENCH STATESMEN. OPINION OF AN ENGLISH WRITER. HIS REPARTEES AND ANECDOTES. -HIS ADMINISTRATION, AND DIFFICULTIES TO OVERCOME. — HIS GLORIOUS SUCCESS. CHARGES AGAINST HIM ANSWERED.WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS. ARBITRARY ARRESTS. LINCOLN A GREATER GENERAL THAN M'CLELLAN. HIS ACTS AND LETTERS. HIS ANTISLAVERY VIEWS.- PROGRESS OF FREEDOM. -WORDS OF GARRISON AND HON. MR. ARNOLD. FREMONT'S AND HUNTER'S PROCLAMATIONS. MR. LINCOLN'S TOLERANT POLICY. RECONSTRUCTION. — THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT. VOICE FROM THE ARMY.-GEN. NEAL DOW's SPEECH.-HÖRACE GREELEY'S INCONSISTENCY. — MR. LINCOLN NOT AN OFFICE-SEEKER.—OUR FOREIGN FRIENDS DESIRE HIS RE-ELECTION. — SPEECH OF PETER SINCLAIR, ESQ., OF SCOTLAND, AND OF HON. GEORGE THOMPSON, OF ENGLAND. |