The introduction and the letters have never before been published, and
(as is the case also with the material of the notes) are now in print
only in the present volume.

I judge, therefore, that I may be doing a service to the survivors of
the generation of 1860 and also to the generations that have grown up
since the War, by utilising the occasion of the publication of my own
little monograph for the reprinting of these notes in a form for
permanent preservation and for reference on the part of students of the
history of the Republic.

G.H.P.

NEW YORK, April 2, 1909.

CONTENTS

I. THE EVOLUTION OF THE MAN

II. WORK AT THE BAR AND ENTRANCE INTO POLITICS

III. THE FIGHT AGAINST THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY

IV. LINCOLN AS PRESIDENT ORGANISES THE PEOPLE FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF
NATIONAL EXISTENCE

V. THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR

VI. THE DARK. DAYS OF 1862

VII. THE THIRD AND CRUCIAL YEAR OF THE WAR

VIII. THE FINAL CAMPAIGN

IX. LINCOLN'S TASK ENDED

APPENDIX--LINCOLN'S COOPER INSTITUTE ADDRESS:

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

CORRESPONDENCE WITH ROBERT LINCOLN, NOTT, AND BRAINERD

INTRODUCTION

CORRESPONDENCE WITH LINCOLN

TITLE PAGE OF ORIGINAL ISSUE

OFFICERS OF THE REPUBLICAN UNION

PREFACE TO THE LINCOLN ADDRESS

THE COOPER INSTITUTE ADDRESS

INDEX

FOOTNOTES

I

THE EVOLUTION OF THE MAN

On the twelfth of February, 1909, the hundredth anniversary of the birth
of Abraham Lincoln, Americans gathered together, throughout the entire
country, to honour the memory of a great American, one who may come to
be accepted as the greatest of Americans. It was in every way fitting
that this honour should be rendered to Abraham Lincoln and that, on such
commemoration day, his fellow-citizens should not fail to bear also in
honoured memory the thousands of other good Americans who like Lincoln
gave their lives for their country and without whose loyal devotion
Lincoln's leadership would have been in vain.

The chief purpose, however, as I understand, of a memorial service is
not so much to glorify the dead as to enlighten and inspire the living.
We borrow the thought of his own Gettysburg address (so eloquent in its
exquisite simplicity) when we say that no words of ours can add any
glory to the name of Abraham Lincoln. His work is accomplished. His fame
is secure. It is for us, his fellow-citizens, fo