Complete works of Abraham Lincoln . \ .-V^. Abraham Lincoln The Celebrated Chicago Photograph. PJiotograviire from the Ori^^inal Photopaph taken about i860 by Hesler, of Chieao^o, Illinois, and iio-K- in the O. H. Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial Collection, TFashin^ton, D. C. 1 Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln Edited byJohn G. Nicolay and John Hay With a General Introduction by Richard Watson Gilder, and Special Articles by Other Eminent Persons New and Enlarged Edition VOLUME III New YorkFrancis D. Tandy Company Copyright, l8g4, hy JOHN G. NICOLAY and JOHN HAY Copyright, igojy by FRANCIS D. TANDY A


Complete works of Abraham Lincoln . \ .-V^. Abraham Lincoln The Celebrated Chicago Photograph. PJiotograviire from the Ori^^inal Photopaph taken about i860 by Hesler, of Chieao^o, Illinois, and iio-K- in the O. H. Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial Collection, TFashin^ton, D. C. 1 Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln Edited byJohn G. Nicolay and John Hay With a General Introduction by Richard Watson Gilder, and Special Articles by Other Eminent Persons New and Enlarged Edition VOLUME III New YorkFrancis D. Tandy Company Copyright, l8g4, hy JOHN G. NICOLAY and JOHN HAY Copyright, igojy by FRANCIS D. TANDY Abraham Lincoln as a ManInspired of God/ THE statesmen in knee-breeches and powderedwigs who signed the Declaration of Inde-pendence and framed the Constitution—the soldiers in blue-and-buff, top-boots, and epauletswho led the armies of the Revolution—were what weare wont to describe as gentlemen. They were Eng-lish gentlemen. They were not all, nor even gen-erally, scions of the British aristocracy; but they came,for the most part, of


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