Latest light on Abraham Lincoln : and war-time memories . neatness and refinement so difficult to describe,yet so attractive, always pervaded him.^^ The following in the Nicolay Century Magazine article haspeculiar weight in this connection: There were many flippantand ill-natured remarks concerning Mr. Lincolns dress, givingpeople the idea that he was either very rude by nature, or givento hopeless eccentricities. Nothing could be more untrue. Hesuffered no wise in comparison as to personal appearance withDouglas, the senator, or Bryant, the poet, or Edward Everett,the polished statesman, dip
Latest light on Abraham Lincoln : and war-time memories . neatness and refinement so difficult to describe,yet so attractive, always pervaded him.^^ The following in the Nicolay Century Magazine article haspeculiar weight in this connection: There were many flippantand ill-natured remarks concerning Mr. Lincolns dress, givingpeople the idea that he was either very rude by nature, or givento hopeless eccentricities. Nothing could be more untrue. Hesuffered no wise in comparison as to personal appearance withDouglas, the senator, or Bryant, the poet, or Edward Everett,the polished statesman, diplomat and orator. In the fifteen hundred days during which he occupied theWhite House, receiving daily visits at almost all hours, oftenfrom seven in the morning to midnight, from all classesand conditions of American citizens, as well as from manydistinguished foreigners, there was never any eccentric orhabitual incongruity of his garb with his station. The worldhas yet to learn that General Scott, or Lord Lyons, or Bishop 12 Lincoln Scrap-book, p. LINCOLN AT COOPER INSTITUTE From a photograph by Brady, New York, February 29, i860, showing Lincolns attire when he delivered his Cooper Institute address. By courtesy of Mr. F. H. Meserve, New York City (See paee 54) LINCOLNS PERSONAL APPEARANCE 57 Simpson, or Prince Napoleon, or Archbishop Hughes, or theComte de Paris, or Chief Justice Taney ever felt humiliatedby the dress or want of dignity of President Lincoln in stateceremonial or private audience.^^ Mr. Lincoln was as refined and courteous in bearing as hewas gentle and kind in disposition. His great wealth of af-fection and sympathy found constant expression in tones oftenderness and words well chosen and fitting. He was as re-fined as Chesterfield and as self-forgetful as Sir Philip Syd-ney. His manners were in keeping with his motives and hecould not be rude or severe in word or act. In all of his strug-gles with Douglas he was the high-toned gentleman of whomthe most
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