. The great American book of biography . birds-eye view of andersonville prison. conduct of the war, the ever present necessity of providing money, whichflowed out of the treasury in a thousand streams under the stress of dailygrowing and expanding public expenditure, the jealousy of politicians and thebickerings of generals, all these, and a thousand wearing, perplexing details,filled his days and nights with labor and anxiety. And, through it all, the greatman, bearing his burden from day to day, grew in the love of his people as theycame to know him better. It is of the human side of Lincol
. The great American book of biography . birds-eye view of andersonville prison. conduct of the war, the ever present necessity of providing money, whichflowed out of the treasury in a thousand streams under the stress of dailygrowing and expanding public expenditure, the jealousy of politicians and thebickerings of generals, all these, and a thousand wearing, perplexing details,filled his days and nights with labor and anxiety. And, through it all, the greatman, bearing his burden from day to day, grew in the love of his people as theycame to know him better. It is of the human side of Lincoln that we think HIS GREAT ABILITIES. 247 most, of his homely speech, his kindliness, of the way he persisted, all throughthe war, in seeinof and conversino- with the thousands of all classes whothronged the doors of the White House, of the tears that came to his eyes ateach story of distress, of his readiness to pardon, his unwillingness to punish,—. THE CAPTURE OF BOOTH. THE SLAYER OF LINCOLN. but this is only part of Lincoln. His grasp of questions of State policy wassuperior to that of any of his advisers. The important dispatch to our ministerto England in May, 1861, outlining the course to be pursued toward thatpower, has been published in its original draft, showing the work of the Secre- 248 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. tary of State and the Presidents alterations. Of this publication the editor ofthe North Aniericati Rcviciv says: Many military men, who have had accessto Mr. Lincolns papers, have classed him as the best general of the war. Thispaper will go far toward establishing his reputation as its ablest would be impossible for any intelligent person to study the paper thuspublished, the omissions, the alterations, the substitutions, without acknowledg-ing that they were the work of a master mind, and that the raw backwoodsman,not three months in office, was the peer of any statesman with whom he mightfind it neces
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