Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln

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Arnold Isaac N.. Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln

SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

MR. LINCOLN FROM HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE TO HIS ELECTION TO CONGRESS

LINCOLN IN CONGRESS

THE LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS DEBATE

NOMINATION AND ELECTION AS PRESIDENT

THE THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

GETTYSBURG

1864

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ABOLISHING SLAVERY

LINCOLN'S SECOND INAUGURATION

END OF THE WAR

LAST DAYS OF LINCOLN

THE ASSASSINATION

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SECRETARY SEWARD

PERSONAL SKETCHES OF LINCOLN.8

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A friend and associate of Mr. Lincoln, speaking of him, as he was in 1840, says: "They mistake greatly who regard him as an uneducated man. In the physical sciences he was remarkably well read. In scientific mechanics, and all inventions and labor-saving machinery, he was thoroughly informed. He was one of the best practical surveyors in the State. He understood the general principles of botany, geology, and astronomy, and had a great treasury of practical useful knowledge."

He continued to acquire knowledge and to grow intellectually until his death, and became one of the most intelligent and best-informed men in public life.

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He brought to the tremendous struggle between freedom and slavery physical strength and endurance almost superhuman. Notwithstanding his modesty and the absence of all self-assertion, when we review the conflict from 1854 to 1865, when the struggle closed by the adoption of the constitutional amendment abolishing and prohibiting slavery forever throughout the republic, it is clear that Lincoln's speeches and writings did more to accomplish this result than any other agency.

Following the repeal of the Missouri Compromise came the Kansas struggle, and the organization of a great party to resist the encroachments and aggressions of slavery. The people instinctively found the leader of such a party in Lincoln.

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