. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . LINCOLN IN JUNE, 1860—TWO MONTHS AFTER VOLK MADE THE LIFE MASK GILDER, WHOSE POEM OPPOSITE WAS INSPIRED BY THE MASK, WAS ALWAYS PARTICULAR* ATTRACTED TO IT, AND kept A copy of it in his editorial sanctum AT the Century Magazine offices In 1800, Lincoln had been a national figure only two years, since his campaign against Stephen A. Douglas forthe Senate in Illinois. Indeed, his name meant little in the East till the early months of this very year. InFebruary, he had appeared before a New York audience at Cooper Union to explain the
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . LINCOLN IN JUNE, 1860—TWO MONTHS AFTER VOLK MADE THE LIFE MASK GILDER, WHOSE POEM OPPOSITE WAS INSPIRED BY THE MASK, WAS ALWAYS PARTICULAR* ATTRACTED TO IT, AND kept A copy of it in his editorial sanctum AT the Century Magazine offices In 1800, Lincoln had been a national figure only two years, since his campaign against Stephen A. Douglas forthe Senate in Illinois. Indeed, his name meant little in the East till the early months of this very year. InFebruary, he had appeared before a New York audience at Cooper Union to explain the purposes of the recentlyorganized Republican party. The larger part of those present expected something wild and woolly—certainlynothing of much moment for the cultivated citizens of the East. When they saw the gaunt figure, six feet fourinches tall, the large feet and clumsy hands, the jutting eyebrows and small blue eyes, the narrow forehead sur-mounted by the shock of unkempt hair—in a word, the man of the photograph on this page—the audience put
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