Abraham Lincoln . f Congress was thehead of a great people, animating them for theirwork by his splendid messages and procla-mations. At the same time he was in manyways the best soldier in the army, and followedthe generals on the field with such telegrams as the following to Hooker, If he comes toward the upper Potomac, fol-low on his flank and on his in-side track, shortening your lineswhile he lengthens his. Fight him,too, when opportunity offers. Ifhe stays where he is, fret himand fret him. Again, to Grant,I have seen your despatch ex-pressing your unwillingness tobreak your hold where y
Abraham Lincoln . f Congress was thehead of a great people, animating them for theirwork by his splendid messages and procla-mations. At the same time he was in manyways the best soldier in the army, and followedthe generals on the field with such telegrams as the following to Hooker, If he comes toward the upper Potomac, fol-low on his flank and on his in-side track, shortening your lineswhile he lengthens his. Fight him,too, when opportunity offers. Ifhe stays where he is, fret himand fret him. Again, to Grant,I have seen your despatch ex-pressing your unwillingness tobreak your hold where you am I willing. Hold onwith a bulldog grip, and chewand choke as much as things that bore Lincolnup through this great crisis werehis sense of personal responsibil-ity and his desire to do right byall people and all sections. Theharshest thing that he is recordedto have said about the South is, I wish they were all laid flat likethose trees, instantly adding,and then I wish they would all. FORDS THEATER, WASHINGTON Where Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth. April 14. 1865. 8 B R H M I N O N rise up again like men. The truth is that Lincoln as president of theUnited States was a southern man, who understood other southern menand the southern problem better than anybody about him; and had helived we must hope that he would have found a solution that would haveavoided the bitterness and hatred of Reconstruction. The rapid progress of the war brought to Lincoln the duty, whichhe had not expected, of declaring free three and a half millions ofslaves. When the preliminary Proclamation of Emancipation was issuedin September, 1862, Congress had already abolished slavery in the terri-tories and in the District of Columbia, and had taken the pith out of theFugitive Slave Act; and the border states of Maryland, West Virginia,and Missouri were moving toward emancipation. The Proclamation ofEmancipation applied only to ten of the eleven seceding states th
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