Chapter I: Front Matter

Our American Holidays

LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY

Our American Holidays

A series of Anthologies upon American Holidays, each volume a collection of writings from many sources, historical, poetic, religious, patriotic, etc., presenting each American festival as seen through the eyes of the representative writers of many ages and nations.

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LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY

A COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF LINCOLN AS
GIVEN IN THE MOST NOTEWORTHY ESSAYS,
ORATIONS AND POEMS, IN FICTION
AND IN LINCOLN'S OWN WRITINGS

EDITED BY
ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER

NEW YORK
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
1916

Copyright, 1909, by
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
NEW YORK

Published, January, 1909

2nd Printing--June, 1911
3rd Printing--July, 1914
4th Printing--Feb. 1916

CONTENTS

PAGE
PREFACE ix

INTRODUCTION xi

I A BIRDSEYE VIEW OF LINCOLN

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 3 A BRIEF SUMMARY OF LINCOLN'S LIFE _Osborn H. Oldroyd_ 6

II EARLY LIFE

LINCOLN'S EDUCATION _Horace Greeley_ 15 ABE LINCOLN'S HONESTY 17 THE BOY THAT HUNGERED FOR KNOWLEDGE 18 ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Florence E. Pratt_ 19 YOUNG LINCOLN'S KINDNESS OF HEART 20 A VOICE FROM THE WILDERNESS _Charles Sumner_ 21 CHOOSING ABE LINCOLN CAPTAIN 22

III MATURITY

LINCOLN'S MARRIAGE 31 HOW LINCOLN AND JUDGE B---- SWAPPED HORSES 33 LINCOLN AS A MAN OF LETTERS _H. W. Mabie_ 34 LINCOLN'S PRESENCE OF BODY 44 HOW LINCOLN BECAME A NATIONAL FIGURE _Ida M. Tarbell_ 45 LINCOLN'S LOVE FOR THE LITTLE ONES 89 HOW LINCOLN TOOK HIS ALTITUDE 90

IV IN THE WHITE HOUSE

HOW LINCOLN WAS ABUSED 95 SONNET IN 1862 _John James Piatt_ 96 LINCOLN THE PRESIDENT _James Russell Lowell_ 96 ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Frank Moore_ 109 THE PROCLAMATION _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 110 THE EMANCIPATION _James A. Garfield_ 112 THE EMANCIPATION GROUP _John Greenleaf Whittier_ 121 ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S CHRISTMAS GIFT _Nora Perry_ 122

V DEATH OF LINCOLN

O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! _Walt Whitman_ 127 ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S DEATH _Walt Whitman_ 128 HUSHED BE THE CAMPS TO-DAY _Walt Whitman_ 134 TO THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN _William Cullen Bryant_ 135 CROWN HIS BLOODSTAINED PILLOW _Julia Ward Howe_ 136 THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Walt Whitman_ 137 OUR SUN HATH GONE DOWN _Phoebe Cary_ 139 TOLLING _Lucy Larcom_ 142 ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Rose Terry Cooke_ 143 EFFECT OF THE DEATH OF LINCOLN _Henry Ward Beecher_ 144 HYMN _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 151 ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Tom Taylor_ 153