Abraham Lincoln : the greatest American . hen the morn of Peace broke through The battles cloud and hailed with joy the promised land He might not enter in. He seemed as set by God apart. The winepress trod alone;Now stands he forth an uncrowned king, A peoples heart his throne. Land of our loyal love and hope, O Land he died to save,Bow down, renew today thy vows Beside his martyr grave! —Frederick L. Hosmer, Feb. 12, 1909. [171] 1LZ009. 03^.0/870. Abraham Lincoln WeGreatest American By Janet Jennings Mr ^ Dedicated To the plain people of the Nation he saved—To theUniversitv of Wiscons
Abraham Lincoln : the greatest American . hen the morn of Peace broke through The battles cloud and hailed with joy the promised land He might not enter in. He seemed as set by God apart. The winepress trod alone;Now stands he forth an uncrowned king, A peoples heart his throne. Land of our loyal love and hope, O Land he died to save,Bow down, renew today thy vows Beside his martyr grave! —Frederick L. Hosmer, Feb. 12, 1909. [171] 1LZ009. 03^.0/870. Abraham Lincoln WeGreatest American By Janet Jennings Mr ^ Dedicated To the plain people of the Nation he saved—To theUniversitv of Wisconsin that honors his memory. Copyright, 1909 By Janet Jennings Cantwell Printing Company,Madison, Wis. PREFACE Twenty-five years and more, in Wash-ington journalism, afforded exceptional op-portunity for conversations and interviewswith those who knew Abraham Lincoln—personal friends in the early Illinois days,and later, in the White House. (A worshipper at the shrine of his mem-ory—a gleaner in the harvest—I havegiven from time to time, facts and inci-dents in the newspapers with which I wasassociated—the New York Tribune, andthe New York Independent. To thesenewspapers I am indebted for the cour-teous permission to here include in perma-nent form, some facts and incidents, thatmay be of permanent interest to the reader. Abraham Lincoln as a lawyer, with factsand incidents leading to the Lincoln-Douglass debates—covering that part ofhis
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