(1894.)
I. Simultaneous Birth of Lincoln and Darwin--Heroes of Every
Generation--Slavery--Principle Sacrificed to Success--Lincoln's
Childhood--His first Speech--A Candidate for the Senate against
Douglass--II. A Crisis in the Affairs of the Republic--The South Not
Alone Responsible for Slavery--Lincoln's Prophetic Words--Nominated for
President and Elected in Spite of his Fitness--III. Secession and
Civil War--The Thought uppermost in his Mind--IV. A Crisis in the
North--Proposition to Purchase the Slaves--V. The Proclamation of
Emancipation--His Letter to Horace Greeley--Waited on by Clergymen--VI.
Surrounded by Enemies--Hostile Attitude of Gladstone, Salisbury,
Louis Napoleon, and the Vatican--VII. Slavery the Perpetual
Stumbling-block--Confiscation--VIII. His Letter to a Republican
Meeting in Illinois--Its Effect--IX. The Power of His Personality--The
Embodiment of Mercy--Use of the Pardoning Power--X. The Vallandigham
Affair--The Horace Greeley Incident--Triumphs of Humor--XI. Promotion of
General Hooker--A Prophecy and its Fulfillment--XII.--States Rights vs.
Territorial Integrity--XIII. His Military Genius--The Foremost Man in
all the World: and then the Horror Came--XIV. Strange Mingling of Mirth
and Tears--Deformation of Great Historic Characters--Washington now
only a Steel Engraving--Lincoln not a Type--Virtues Necessary in a
New Country--Laws of Cultivated Society--In the Country is the Idea
of Home--Lincoln always a Pupil--A Great Lawyer--Many-sided--Wit and
Humor--As an Orator--His Speech at Gettysburg contrasted with the
Oration of Edward Everett--Apologetic in his Kindness--No Official
Robes--The gentlest Memory of our World.