Chapter XV: Part 15

"'The President, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the military and naval service. The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the Divine will demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be reduced to a measure of strict necessity. The discipline and character of the national forces should not suffer, nor the cause they defend be imperilled, by the profanation of the day or name of the Most High.'

"In September, 1862, while his mind was burdened with the weightiest question of his life, wearied with all the considerations of law and expediency with which he had been struggling for two years, he retired within himself and tried to bring some order into his thoughts by rising above the wrangling of men and of parties and pondering the relations of human government to the Divine. In this frame of mind, absolutely detached from any earthly considerations, he wrote this meditation. It has never been published. It was not written to be seen of men. It was penned in the awful sincerity of a perfectly honest soul trying to bring itself into closer communion with its Maker:

"'The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be and one must be wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose. I am almost ready to say that this is probably true; that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet. By His mere great power on the minds of the contestants, He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began, and, having begun, He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.'"

On September 22, 1862, at a Cabinet meeting, Lincoln submitted his determination to issue a proclamation of emancipation of the slaves. He said that his mind was fixed, his decision made, and therefore he did not ask the opinion of his advisers as to the act, but he wished his paper announcing his course to be as correct in terms as it could be made without any change in his determination. That is the recollection of Mr. Welles, the Secretary of the Navy, who in his diary refers to Lincoln's "Covenant with God," as follows:

"In the course of the discussion on this paper, which was long, earnest, and, on the general principle involved, harmonious, he remarked that he had made a vow--a covenant--that if God gave us the victory in the approaching battle, he would consider it an indication of Divine will, and that it was his duty to move forward in the cause of emancipation. It might be thought strange, he said, that he had in this way submitted the disposal of matters when the way was not clear to his mind what he should do. God had decided this question in favor of the slaves. He was satisfied it was right,--was confirmed and strengthened in his action by the vow and the results."

The diary of Secretary Chase for the same day contains a similar account of the same discussion, and quotes the President as saying,--

"When the rebel army was at Frederick, I determined, as soon as it should be driven out of Maryland, to issue a proclamation of emancipation, such as I thought most likely to be useful. I said nothing to any one, but I made the promise to myself and [hesitating a little] to my Maker. The rebel army is now driven out, and I am going to fulfil that promise."

Mr. Usher, the Secretary of the Interior, says that when the draft of the Emancipation Proclamation was submitted to the Cabinet, Mr. Chase remarked,--

"This paper is one of the utmost importance, greater than any state paper ever made by this government. A paper of so much importance, and involving the liberties of so many people, ought, I think, to make some reference to the Deity. I do not observe anything of the kind in it."

Lincoln said, "No; I overlooked it. Some reference to the Deity must be inserted. Mr. Chase, won't you make a draft of what you think ought to be inserted?"

Mr. Chase promised to do so, and at the next meeting presented the following:

"And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God."

When Lincoln read the paragraph, Mr. Chase said, "You may not approve it, but I thought this or something like it would be appropriate."

Lincoln replied, "I do approve it; it cannot be bettered, and I will adopt it in the very words you have written."

The reader has perceived from these pages the strength and the weakness of Abraham Lincoln. His errors were due to mercy and not to malice; to prudence and not to thoughtlessness or pride; to deliberation and not to recklessness. Perhaps he might have shortened the war by removing McClellan and placing in command of the armies before Richmond a commander of greater force and energy; perhaps he might have abolished human bondage by earlier action, as demanded by the antislavery element in the North; but who can tell what disasters might have been caused by impetuous action? If Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan had been at his side at the beginning of the war, history might have been different.

But who is so perfect or so wise as to judge Abraham Lincoln?

His greatest fault was his inability to suppress his sympathies. He once said, "If I have one vice, it is not being able to say 'No.' And I consider it a vice. Thank God for not making me a woman. I presume if He had He would have made me just as ugly as I am, and nobody would ever have tempted me."

On another occasion he said, "Some of our generals complain that I impair discipline and encourage insubordination in the army by my pardons and respites; but it rests me after a hard day's work if I can find some good cause for saving a man's life; and I go to bed happy as I think how joyous the signing of my name will make him and his family and his friends."

And with a happy smile beaming upon his careworn face, he again signed his name that saved another life. It was his theory that when a man is sincerely penitent for his misdeeds and gives satisfactory evidence of it, he can safely be pardoned.

An old lady came to him with tears in her eyes to express her gratitude for the pardon of her son, a truant soldier.

"Good-by, Mr. Lincoln," she said; "I shall probably never see you again until we meet in heaven."

He was deeply moved. He took her right hand in both of his and said, "I am afraid with all my troubles I shall never get to that resting-place you speak of; but if I do, I am sure I shall find you. That you wish me to get there is, I believe, the best wish you could make for me. Good-by."

To his oldest and most intimate friend he said, "Speed, die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow."

His greatness consisted not in his eloquence as an orator, nor his shrewdness as a lawyer, nor his tact as a diplomatist, nor his genius in planning and directing military affairs, nor his executive ability, but in his absolute self-control, his unselfishness, the full maturity of his wisdom, the strength of his convictions, his sound judgment, his absolute integrity, his unwavering adherence to the principles of truth, justice, and honor, his humanity, his love of country, his sublime faith in the people and in Republican institutions. He was without malice or the spirit of resentment, without envy or jealousy, and he suppressed his passions to a degree beyond that of most men. He entered the Presidency with an inadequate conception of his own responsibilities, but when he saw his duty he did it with courage, endurance, magnanimity, and unselfish devotion. In his eulogy of Lincoln, uttered a few days after the assassination, Ralph Waldo Emerson said,--

"He grew according to the need; his mind mastered the problem of the day; and as the problem grew so did his comprehension of it. Rarely was a man so fitted to the event.

"In four years--four years of battle days--his endurance, his fertility and resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried and never found wanting. There, by his courage, his justice, his even temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood a heroic figure in the centre of an heroic epoch."

Index

Acceptance, Lincoln's letter of, 157

Adams, Charles Francis, 354

----, John Quincy, 144

Address, first inaugural, 170

----, second inaugural, 89

Admitted to the bar, 65

Advice to young lawyers, 70, 82

Alley, John B., 54, 175, 216

Amendment, thirteenth, adopted, 337

Ancestry of Lincoln, 15

Anderson, General Robert, 231, 308

Anecdotes of Lincoln, 29, 49, 69, 74, 81, 95, 128, 133, 141, 159,
161, 164, 175, 178, 220, 222, 226, 234, 259, 278, 280, 290,
310, 330, 343, 360

Anger, Lincoln's, 54

Appearance, Lincoln's, 48

Argument, Lincoln's method of, 79, 86, 96, 100, 125

Arrival at Washington, Lincoln's, 169

Assassination conspiracy, 168

---- of Lincoln, 311

Atheism, story of Lincoln's, 376

Autobiography, Lincoln's, 59

Bailache, William H., 170

Baker, Edward D., 54, 83, 134, 137, 169

Bar, early practice at, 65, 66, 83

Bateman, Dr. Newton, 158, 388

Bates, Edward, 181, 298

Beecher, Henry Ward, 190

Berry and Lincoln, 34, 63

Bible, Lincoln's admiration for, 387

Birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, 20

Bixby, letters to Mrs., 51

Black Hawk War, 65, 229

Blair, Francis P., 187

----, Montgomery, 181, 187, 191

Bloomington Convention, 105, 149

Books, Lincoln's early, 56

Boone, Daniel, related to Lincoln, 16

Booth, John Wilkes, 311

Boutwell, George S., 216

Boyhood of Lincoln, 21, 24, 60, 93

Brown, John, 322

Browning, Orville H., 39, 134, 170

Bryant, William Cullen, 124

Buchanan Cabinet, disloyalty of, 165

---- sends emissary to Lincoln, 162

Buell, General, 252

Bull Run, battle of, 236

Burns, Lincoln's love of, 288

Burnside, General, 262

Butler, General B. F., 273, 294, 323, 333

Cabin in which Lincoln was born, 19

Cabinet, dissensions of, 186, 235, 356

----, selection of, 174, 179, 193

Calhoun, John, 35, 63

Cameron, Simon, 193, 220, 238, 325

Campaign of, Presidential, 1860, 155

Campaigning, Lincoln's method of, 96, 133

Campaigns, plans of military, 249

Campbell, John A., 272

Canal, isthmus, 334

Candidate for Congress, 137

---- for Legislature, 129

---- for President, 158

---- for Senate, 146, 150

Capacity for labor, Lincoln's, 279

Capital, removal of Illinois State, 135

Cartter, Judge, 175, 360

Cartwright, Peter, 138

Cass, General, 231

Chandler, A. B., 53

Character, Lincoln's, 14, 91, 370, 396

Chase, Salmon P., 174, 204, 210, 216, 243, 340, 356

Chicago Convention (1860), 158

Chief-Justice, Chase appointed, 216

Children, Lincoln's, 46, 287

----, Lincoln's love of his, 46

Choate, Joseph H., 125

Christian Commission, 390

Church, Lincoln's attendance at, 370

Circuit, following the judicial, 67, 83

Clergy, opposition of Springfield, 387

Coffey, Titian J., 184, 297

Coles, Edward, Governor, 315

Colfax, Schuyler, 153, 182, 310, 330

Colonization, Lincoln advocates negro, 333

Confusion in government, 186, 233

Congress, speeches in, 98, 145

Congressional campaign, 137

---- experience, Lincoln's, 139

Conners, Senator, 55

Contraband question, the, 323

Convention, Bloomington, 156

----, Decatur, 26, 149

----, Illinois State (1860), 156

---- of 1860, National, 27, 158

Cooper Institute speech, 86, 124, 321

Courage, Lincoln's, 272

Creed, Lincoln's, 391

Dana, Charles A., 227, 364

Davis, David, 67, 83, 193, 369, 379

----, Henry Winter, 187

----, Jefferson, 140, 231

Death, Lincoln's, 313

Debate, Lincoln's first, 96

---- with Douglas, 86, 100, 110, 114

Debt, Lincoln's, 33

Decatur Convention, 149

Defeat by people, Lincoln's only, 130

Democracy, Lincoln's, 345

Dennison, William, 193, 242

Depew, Chauncey M., 85, 93, 281, 361

Diplomacy, Lincoln's ability in, 342, 346, 351

Diplomatist, definition of, 342

Disloyalty in Buchanan's Cabinet, 233

Dodge, William E., 368

Douglas, Stephen A., 40, 74, 83, 86, 100, 107, 114, 122, 134, 151,
169, 320, 380

Dreams, Lincoln's, 308

Duel, Lincoln's, 42

Earnings, Lincoln's first, 24

Eckert, General, 53, 227

Education, Lincoln's, 58, 91

Edwards, Ninian W., 40

Election declared, Lincoln's, 166

----, Presidential, of 1860, 161

Electoral vote counted, 166

Emancipation accomplished, 335

----, Lincoln's ideas of, 319

---- proclamation, 183, 329, 335, 394

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 396

Emigration of Lincoln family, 17

England, diplomatic relations with, 347, 351

Essay, Lincoln's first, 94

Ethics, Lincoln's legal, 70

Experience, Lincoln's legislative, 135

----, ---- Congressional, 139

Farewell to Springfield neighbors, 47

Faults, Lincoln's, 395

Fees, Lincoln's, 45, 72

Fenton, Reuben E., 173

Fessenden, William Pitt, 214, 361

Field, Munsell B., 213

First dollar, Lincoln's, 24

---- lawsuit, Lincoln's, 65

Fish, Hamilton, 350

Flatboat, Lincoln's, 32

Foreign policy, 346

Fortune, Lincoln's, 45

France, diplomatic relations with, 348

"Freeport Doctrine," Douglas's, 107, 120

Frémont, General John C., 246

Frémont, Mrs., 247

Fry, General James F., 88, 221, 344

Fugitive-slave law, 323

Garrison, William Lloyd, 290

Genius, Lincoln's military, 232, 249, 269

Gentry, Mr., 25

Gentryville, Indiana, 21, 25, 94

Gettysburg speech, 86, 89

Giddings, Joshua R., 140

Gilmer, John A., 181

God, belief in, 370

Governorship of Oregon, offered, 137

Graham, Menton, 62

Grammar, Lincoln's first, 63

Grant, General, 177, 232, 245, 252, 253, 260, 300, 308

Greeley, Horace, 92, 284, 332

Green, General Duff, 162

Gurley, Rev. Dr., 313, 370

Hahn, letter to Governor, 337

Halleck, General, 191, 251

Hanks, Dennis, 26

----, John, 23, 27, 32

----, Nancy, Lincoln's mother, 18, 22

Harris, Senator, 311

Hay, Colonel John, 88, 284, 311, 381

Hayti, recognition of, 328

Herndon, W. H., 33, 108, 372

Holloway, Commissioner of Patents, 174

Holmes's poems, Lincoln's love of, 289

Holt, Judge-Advocate-General, 293

Home, Lincoln's first, 19

----, Lincoln's second, 20

----, Lincoln's third, 21

----, Lincoln's fourth, 26

----, Lincoln's fifth, 44

----, Lincoln's sixth, 45

---- life, Lincoln's, 45, 227, 284

Honesty, Lincoln's, 34, 84, 371

Hood's poems, Lincoln's love of, 288

Hooker, General Joseph, 263

"House divided against itself" speech, 110

Humor, Lincoln's, 50, 93, 281, 344, 361

Hunter, General David, 247, 328

Illinois Central Railroad, litigation with, 72

---- State Convention of 1860, 156

Inauguration, Lincoln's first, 169

----, Lincoln's second, 89

Indiana, migration to, 21

Indiana, Revised Statutes of, 56

Infidelity, story of Lincoln's, 376

Invention, Lincoln's, 32

Jefferson, Joseph, reminiscences of, 68

Johnson, Reverdy, 76

Johnston, General Albert Sidney, 231

----, John, Lincoln's step-brother, 23, 30, 32, 382

----, Sally Bush, 23, 30

Judd, Norman B., 154, 188

Judicial procedure, early, 66

Julian, George W., 174, 225

Kasson, John A., 223

Kelso, Jack, 95

Kernan, Francis, 296

Kindness of heart, Lincoln's, 279, 292, 296

Lamon, Ward, 310

Land Office Commissionership, 143

Law-books, Lincoln's first, 57, 64

Law, how he came to study, 56

Lawyer, Lincoln becomes a, 64

Learning, Lincoln's love of, 56, 78, 91

Lee's surrender, 307

Legislature, candidate for, 129

Liberia, recognition of, 328

Lincoln admitted to the bar, 65

----, ancestry of, 15

----, anger of, 54

---- appointed postmaster, 34

----, arrival in Washington of, 169

----, assassination of, 311

----, atheism of, story of, 376

----, autobiography of, 59

----, birthplace of, 20

----, Black Hawk War, 65, 229

----, boyhood of, 21, 24, 60, 93

----, candidate for President, 158

----, character of, 14, 91, 370, 396

----, code of morals of, 372

----, Congressional experience of, 139

----, courage of, 272

----, creed of, 391

----, death of, 313

----, debate of, with Douglas, 40, 74, 83, 86, 100, 107, 114, 122,
134, 151, 160, 169, 320, 380

----, diplomacy of, 342, 346, 351

----, duel of, 42

----, education of, 58, 91

----, election of, declared, 166

----, farewell of, to neighbors, 47

----, faults of, 395

----, fees of, 45, 72

----, first campaign of, for Legislature, 129

----, first earnings of, 24

----, first impressions of, of slavery, 314

----, first inauguration of, 169

----, first lawsuit of, 65

----, first meeting of, with McClellan, 71

----, first school of, 61

---- first suggested for President, 153

----, foreign policy of, 346

----, fortune of, 45, 74

----, grandmother of, 17

----, home life of, 45

----, homes of, 19, 20, 21, 26, 44, 45

----, honesty of, 34, 84, 371

----, journey of, to New Orleans, 25

----, kindness of heart of, 279, 292, 296

----, last speech of, 338

----, legal ethics of, 70, 83

----, legal methods of, 74, 79, 83, 86

----, legislative experience of, 135

----, letter of, accepting Presidential nomination, 157

----, "Lost Speech" of, 106

----, love-affairs of, 35, 37, 38, 40

----, love of, for his children, 46, 53

----, ----, for learning, 56, 78, 91

----, marriage of, 44

----, memory of, 93

----, method of argument of, 79, 86, 96, 100, 125

----, military genius of, 232, 249, 269

----, muscular strength of, 28

----, nomination of, for Congress, 138

----, notification of, of nomination to Presidency, 156

----, oratory of, 86, 116

----, Peoria speech of, 91

----, personal appearance of, 48

----, place in history of, 13, 86, 91

----, plans of, for purchasing slaves, 326

----, political career of, 129

----, political sagacity of, 344

----, popularity of, 130

----, receives emissaries from rebel leaders, 163

----, recommendations of, for office, 142

----, religious views of, 370, 381

---- seeks Presidential nomination, 155

----, sisters of, 20, 26

----, speeches of, 95, 97, 100, 114, 125, 133

----, Springfield speech of, 104, 109

----, stature of, 29

----, step-mother of, 23, 30

----, superstitions of, 309

----, surveying of, 34

----, visit to Richmond of, 271

----, weakness of, 395

Lincoln, Anna, 17

----, Robert T., 30, 46, 177, 310, 312

----, "Tad", 287

----, Thomas, 17, 21, 30, 375

----, Willie, 277

Liquor selling, Lincoln's, 34

Literary style, Lincoln's, 86

Locke, David R., 36, 51

Logan, Stephen T., 35, 44, 69

"Lost Speech," Lincoln's, 106

Louisiana, reconstruction of, 339

Love-affairs, Lincoln's, 35, 38

Lovejoy, assassination of, 317

Lyons, Lord, 350

Maltby, Captain, 55

Markland, General, 189

Marriage, Lincoln's, 44

Mason-Slidell affair, 350

McClellan's first meeting with Lincoln, 71

McClellan, General, 197, 206, 238, 250

McCulloch, Hugh, 183, 214, 309, 340

McCulloch, Mrs., 283

McDowell, General, 237

McKinley, William, 342

Meade, General George C., 268

Medill, Joseph, 122

Melancholy, Lincoln's, 50

Memory, Lincoln's, 93

Methods, Lincoln's legal, 74, 79, 83

----, Lincoln's political, 133

Mexican question, 354

Migration to Illinois, 26

Military genius, Lincoln's, 232, 249, 269

Missouri Compromise, 102, 146

Monroe Doctrine, 354

Moral courage, Lincoln's, 130

Morals, Lincoln's code of, 372

Morgan, E. D., 29

Muscular strength, Lincoln's, 28

Negroes, enlistment of, 325

New Orleans, Lincoln's journey to, 25, 32, 314, 318

Nicolay, John G., 90, 158, 199, 204, 214, 250, 379, 385

Nominated for Congress, 138

Nomination, notified of Presidential, 156, 380

Office seekers, clamors of, 164, 186, 279

Offutt, Denton, 32, 62, 129

Oglesby, Richard J., 26

Oratory, Lincoln's, 86, 125

Oregon, offered governorship of, 143

Owen, Robert Dale, 360

Owens, Mary, 38

Pardon of soldiers, 36, 52

Patent case, Lincoln's, 75

Patronage, Lincoln's opinions about, 143

Peace Commissioners, 355

Peoria speech, Lincoln's, 91

Petroleum V. Nasby, 36, 51, 280

Philadelphia speech (1860), 167

Pinkerton, Allan, 168

Platform, Lincoln's first political, 129

Poem, Lincoln's favorite, 379

Poems, Lincoln's, 94

Poetry, love of, 95, 287, 379

Politician, definition of, 342

Political career, Lincoln's, 129

---- sagacity, Lincoln's, 96, 133, 160, 171, 177, 199, 344

Pomeroy, Senator, 211

Poore, Ben: Perley, 289

Popularity, Lincoln's, 130

Porter, Admiral, 272

Postmaster, Lincoln appointed, 34

Practice, Lincoln's law, 74, 82

Prayer, Lincoln's belief in, 382

Presbyterian Church, Springfield, 46

President, Lincoln elected, 161

Presidential nomination, Lincoln seeks, 155

Press, Lincoln's respect for, 283, 289

Proclamation, Emancipation, 183, 329, 335, 394

Property, Lincoln's, 45

Rails that Lincoln split, 26

Rathbone, Major, 311

Rebel leaders send emissary to Lincoln, 162

Recommendations for office, Lincoln's, 142

Relatives in Kentucky, 16

---- in Virginia, 16

Religious prejudice against, 137

---- views, Lincoln's, 370

Republican National Convention (1856), 149
(1860), 156

Rice, Governor, 296

Richmond, Lincoln visits, 271

Rutledge, Anne, 37

Sagacity, Lincoln's political, 160, 171, 177

School, Lincoln's first, 61

Scott, General, 229, 235, 242

Secession begins, 161

Senate, candidate for, 146, 150

----, difficulty with, 356

Senatorial campaign, 108, 146

Seward, William H., 181, 197, 204, 208, 236, 334, 337, 348, 351,
355

Shakespeare, Lincoln's love of, 288

Shellabarger, Judge, 222

Sheridan, General, 270, 339

Sherman, General, 232, 270, 235, 269, 300

Shields, James, 40, 42

Short, James, 33

Sickles, General Daniel E., 384

Sisters, Lincoln's, 20

Slavery, Lincoln's first impressions of, 25, 57, 314

----, first protest against, 316

----, Lincoln's plan to abolish, in Washington, 318

Slaves, Lincoln's plans for purchase of, 326

----, money value of, 327

Smith, Caleb B., 182

Social life in Washington, 38, 227

Speakership, candidate for, 136

Speech at Philadelphia, 167

----, Lincoln's last, 338

----, the "Lost", 106

Speeches, campaign, 95, 133

----, first political, 95

---- in Congress, 98, 144, 145

---- in Legislature, 97

Speed, James, 185

----, Joshua F., 41, 96, 185, 375, 396

Spiritualism, Lincoln's views of, 376

Springfield made capital of Illinois, 135

---- speech, Lincoln's, 104, 109

Stanton, Edwin D., 183, 189, 218, 224, 244, 253, 290, 298, 309,
313

----, Lincoln's first meeting with, 76

Statesmanship? what is, 342

Stature, Lincoln's, 29

Stephens, Alexander H., 145, 162, 355

Step-mother, Lincoln's, 23, 30

Stevens, Thaddeus, 52

Stoddard, W. O., 265

Strength, muscular, Lincoln's, 28

Stuart, John T., 64

Study, Lincoln's habits of, 58, 77, 91

Stump oratory, Lincoln's, 96, 104, 114, 125, 133

Suffrage, negro, Lincoln's views on, 337, 338

Sumner, Charles, 176, 216, 272, 334

Sunday proclamation, Lincoln's, 392

Superstition, Lincoln's, 309, 376

Supreme Court, Chase's appointment to, 216

Surveying, Lincoln's, 34

Swett, Leonard, 60, 84, 380

Tact, Lincoln's, 171, 285, 343, 361

"Tad" Lincoln, 287

Taney, Chief-Justice, 169

Taylor, President, election of, 142

Teachers, Lincoln's, 61

Temperance, Lincoln's views on, 380

Theatre, Ford's, 311

Thomas, General, 270

Tod, Governor, 214

Todd, Miss Mary, 40, 44, 47

Tragedy in Lincoln family, 17

Trent affair, 350

Trumbull, Lyman, 108, 148, 357

Tuck, Amos, 144, 176

Usher, John T., 183, 340

Wade, Benjamin F., 187

Washburne, E. B., 141, 148, 165, 169, 253

Weakness, Lincoln's, 395

Webster, Daniel, 140

Weed, Thurlow, 160, 171, 173, 181, 197, 382

Weldon, Lawrence, 80, 379

Welles, Gideon, 184, 196, 310

Wentworth, Long John, 75

Whig party organized, 136

White, Horace, 104, 118, 149

Wilkes, Captain Charles, 350

Wilson, Henry, 296

Wit, Lincoln's, 50, 91, 96

Yates, Richard, 103

THE END

Transcriber's Notes:

Simple typographical errors were corrected.

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

"fugitive slave law" and "fugitive-slave law" both appear in the original book; regularized to "fugitive-slave law" in this eBook.

"proslavery" and "pro-slavery" both occur in the original book; unchanged here.

Letter facing page 168: in handwritten date "October 3, 1861", "3" (rather than "5") is based on examination of other samples of Lincoln's handwriting.

Page 289: "Ben: Perley Poore" did abbreviate his first name with a colon. His name also appears without a colon on page 98.

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