Chapter VII: The Whole Man

LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE _Edwin Markham_ 233 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN _George Bancroft_ 235 ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Goldwin Smith_ 276 GREATNESS OF HIS SIMPLICITY _H. A. Delano_ 278 HORACE GREELEY'S ESTIMATE OF LINCOLN 279 LINCOLN _J. T. Trowbridge_ 282 THE RELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF LINCOLN _B. B. Tyler_ 282 TO THE SPIRIT OF LINCOLN _R. W. Gilder_ 296 LINCOLN AS A TYPICAL AMERICAN _Phillips Brooks_ 297 LINCOLN AS CAVALIER AND PURITAN _H. W. Grady_ 304 LINCOLN, THE TENDER-HEARTED _H. W. Bolton_ 306 THE CHARACTER OF LINCOLN _W. H. Herndon_ 307 "WITH CHARITY FOR ALL" _W. T. Sherman_ 317 LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY _Ida V. Woodbury_ 318 FEBRUARY TWELFTH _M. H. Howliston_ 319 TWO FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS _L. M. Hadley and C. Z. Denton_ 323

VIII LINCOLN'S PLACE IN HISTORY

THE THREE GREATEST AMERICANS _Theodore Roosevelt_ 333 HIS CHOICE AND HIS DESTINY _F. M. Bristol_ 333 ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Robert G. Ingersoll_ 334 LINCOLN _Paul Laurence Dunbar_ 341 THE GRANDEST FIGURE _Walt Whitman_ 342 ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Lyman Abbott_ 345 "LINCOLN THE IMMORTAL" _Anonymous_ 346 THE CRISIS AND THE HERO _Frederic Harrison_ 349 LINCOLN _John Vance Cheney_ 351 MAJESTIC IN HIS INDIVIDUALITY _S. P. Newman_ 353

IX LINCOLN YARNS AND SAYINGS

THE QUESTION OF LEGS 359 HOW LINCOLN WAS PRESENTED WITH A KNIFE 360 "WEEPING WATER" 361 MILD REBUKE TO A DOCTOR 362

X FROM LINCOLN'S SPEECHES AND WRITINGS

LINCOLN'S LIFE AS WRITTEN BY HIMSELF 365 THE INJUSTICE OF SLAVERY 365 SPEECH AT COOPER INSTITUTE 368 FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS 371 LETTER TO HORACE GREELEY 376 EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 378 THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION 380 GETTYSBURG ADDRESS 382 REMARKS TO NEGROES ON THE STREETS OF RICHMOND 383 SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS 384