Abraham Lincoln - a character sketch (1908) (14592293720)

Identifier: abrahamlincol2791shep (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln : a character sketch
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Sheppard, Robert Dickinson, b. 1846 Adam, G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer), 1830-1912 Shepardson, Francis Wayland, 1862-1937. The life of Lincoln Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910. The early days of Abraham Lincoln
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Chicago : Union School Furnishing Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library



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e disruption of theunion and the founding of a Confederacy, of which theinstitution of slavery should be the chief corner stone. On the evening of the 4th of March, Mr. Lincoln en-tered the White House, that should be his home for theremainder of his days. There, was sumptuousness andelegance to which he was not accustomed, formality andetiquette, that in his quiet life he had not practiced, butto all he adjusted himself with that simple grace thatmarked the American citizen, born to the purple and des-tined to command. He found the government in confusion, seven states insecession and a rebel government already organized atMontgomery, Alabama. The Southern heart had beenfired and her young men were in arms. He nominated his cabinet and set himself earnestly ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 67 at work upon the tasks that were forced upon him.Though his counselors were able men, famed for leader-ship, they were only his advisers. He was their chief,President of the Nation and Commander-in-Chief of the
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The Bombardment of Ft. Sumter, April 12, 1861. army and navy of the United States. If any of themsupposed that he would divide that responsibility or yieldto their dictation they were soon, kindly but firmly, dis-abused. Some of the Southern leaders thought thatthere would be no war, that the North was divided andthat the Northern people would not fight. There was 68 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. some encouragement to this idea, but not in the calm,resolute purpose of the new President. On the 15th of April, the President issued his first callfor seventy-five thousand volunteers to put down the re-bellion. Ft. Sumter had been attacked and had fallen.One by one the rebel leaders had slunk away from thescene of their treason, Breckinridge among the last. Thewar was forced upon him. Patriotic devotion to theUnion effaced all differences. Half a million of menresponded to the Presidents call. Congress voted menand money for the prosecution of the war. The timeswere inauspicious. The best generals of t