The inner life of Abraham Lincoln

by F. B. Carpenter

[19] Correspondence of the N. Y. Independent.

[20] J. C Derby, Esq., of New York.

[21] Address in Philadelphia upon the death of Mr. Lincoln.

[22] This article was written and first published some months previous to Mr. Lincoln’s reëlection, during the depression of the public mind following the “raid” on Washington.

[23] Rev. Mr. Henderson, Louisville, Ky.

[24] Mr. Murtagh, of the Washington Republican.

INDEX.

• A.
• Adams, J. Q., [211].
• Alley, Hon. J. B., [119].
• All-noise Story, [212].
• Amnesty Proclamation, [98].
• Andersonville, [177].
• Apparition, [164].
• Arnold, Hon. I. N., [150], [237], [302].
• Ashley, Hon. Mr., [151].
• Ashmun, Hon. George, [284–286].
• Assassination, [63].
• B.
• Baker, G. E., [127].
• Baldwin, Judge, (Cal.,) [245].
• Baltimore Convention, [162].
• Barrett, Hon. J. H., [86], [254].
• Bateman, Newton, [192].
• Bates, Attorney-General, [55].
• Battle, Fair Oaks, [139].
• Beecher, Henry Ward, [135], [230].
• Bellows, Rev. Dr., [81], [274].
• Bible Presentation, [199].
• Bingham, Hon. John A., [234].
• Blair, Hon. M., [21], [46], [88].
• Booth, Edwin, [49].
• Bowen, H. C., [221].
• Brady, M. B., [46].
• Braine, Lieutenant, [94].
• Brooks, Noah, [63], [165], [188], [235].
• “Bulletin,” (San Francisco,) [223].
• Burnside, [81].
• C.
• Cabinet Meeting, [55].
• Cameron, Secretary, [136–133], [253].
• Cannon, Colonel L. B., [115].
• Cass, General, [271].
• Chase, [21], [84], [85], [86], [88–90], [130], [218], [223];
• letter to Stanton, [180].
• Cheever, Rev. Dr., [147].
• Chicago Convention, [119].
• Christian Commission, [161].
• Clark, Senator, [276].
• Clay, Henry, [71].
• Colfax, Hon. Schuyler, [14], [85], [87], [172], [177], [195], [285].
• Concert, Marine Band, [143], [168].
• Creech, [68].
• Creeds, [190].
• Crittenden, General, [46].
• Cropsey, [168].
• Curtin, [82–84].
• Cushing, Lieutenant, [232].
• D.
• Dall, Mrs. C. H., [165].
• Defrees, [126].
• Deming, Hon. H. C., [190], [219].
• “Demonstrate,” [314].
• Derby, J. C., (N. Y.,) [290].
• Description of Picture, [27].
• Dole, Commissioner, [282].
• Douglas, Hon. Stephen A., [194], [237], [249], [315].
• Douglass, Frederick, [204].
• E.
• Elliott, (Artist,) [69].
• Emancipation, [21], [73], [74], [77], [78], [86], [196], [197], [269], [307].
• Equestrian Statues, [71].
• Ewing, Hon. Thomas, [37].
• F.
• Fessenden, Hon. W. P., [182].
• Field, Rev. H. M., [135].
• Florida Expedition, [48].
• Ford, Hon. Thomas, [296].
• Forney, Colonel, [267].
• Forrest, Edwin, [114].
• Frank, Hon. A., [218].
• Freedmen, [196].
• Fremont, [47], [220], [221].
• G.
• Gamble, Governor, [242].
• Garfield, General, [240].
• Garrison, [167].
• Gilbert, Wall Street Assessor, [255].
• Goldsborough, Admiral, [240].
• Grant, General, [56], [57], [265], [283], [292].
• Greeley, [152].
• Greene, W. T., [267].
• Gulliver, Rev. J. B., Reminiscences, [309].
• H.
• Halpine, Colonel, [63], [278].
• Hammond, Surgeon-General, [274], [275].
• Hanks, Dennis, [299].
• Harris, Hon. Ira, [175].
• Hay, John, [45], [149].
• Henderson, Rev. Mr., [320].
• Henry, Dr., (Oregon,) [302].
• Herndon, Hon. Wm. H.; analysis of Mr. Lincoln’s character, [323].
• Higby, Hon. William, [148].
• Holland, Dr., [79], [191].
• Holmes, O. W., [58].
• Holt, Judge, [32], [33].
• Hooker, General, [233].
• Hospitals, [107].
• Hubbard, Hon. Mr., (Ct.,) [253].
• I.
• “Independent,” New York, [88], [230], [287].
• “Ingenious Nonsense,” [158].
• Inman, (Artist,) [69].
• Interview, first, with Mr. Lincoln, [18].
• J.
• Jackson, “Stonewall,” [234], [268].
• Johnson, Hon. Andrew, [102].
• Johnson, Oliver, [77].
• Jones, (Sculptor,) [34].
• K.
• Kelly, Hon. Wm., [92], [165], [294].
• King, Starr, [228].
• Knox, William, (Poet,) [60].
• L.
• Lincoln, Hon. G. B., of Brooklyn, [110], [113], [234].
• Lincoln, Mrs., [165], [293], [301].
• Lincoln, President, account of Emancipation Proclamation, [20], [76], [83], [85], [90], [269], [307];
• his sadness, [30];
• love of Shakspeare, [49];
• memory, [52];
• appreciation of poetry, [59];
• “Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?” [60];
• opinion concerning Assassination, [62];
• “Latin” quotation, [78];
• exceptionable stories, [80];
• on Wall Street gold speculators, [84];
• closing sentence, [89];
• “promised his God,” &c., [90];
• his matured judgment upon the act of Emancipation, [90];
• simplicity and humility, [95];
• his first dollar, [96];
• Amnesty Proclamation, interview with Hon. Robert Dale Owen, [98];
• account of capture of Norfolk, [104], [210];
• exhausted patience illustrated, [106], [108];
• wounded Marylander, [109];
• as surveyor, [111];
• “new clothes,” [113];
• axes, [113], [289];
• never read a novel, [114];
• interview with Rev. Dr. Vinton, [117];
• telegram to friends at Chicago Convention, [120];
• reception of nomination, (1860,) [121];
• temperance principles, [125];
• “sugar-coated,” [126];
• the signing of public documents, [128];
• speech to foreign minister, [128];
• on office-seekers, [129], [145], [276];
• borrowing the army, [130];
• Sunday-school celebration, [130];
• regard for children, [132];
• “the baby did it,” [133];
• pardon cases, [40], [43], [133], [171], [172], [173], [174], [175], [176], [250], [296], [319];
• Five Points’ Sunday-School, [133];
• at Henry Ward Beecher’s church, [134];
• relations with Cabinet, [135];
• Secretary Cameron’s Report, [136];
• General Patterson, [137];
• Secretary Cameron’s retirement, [138];
• interview with P. M. Wetmore, (N. Y.,) [140];
• sensitiveness, [144], [145];
• “thin skinned,” [145];
• willingness to receive advice, [146];
• “canvassed hams,” [148];
• indifference to personal appearance, [148];
• Nicolay and Hay, [149];
• “Nasby Letters,” [151];
• relief found in story-telling, [152];
• Greeley, [152], [153];
• newspaper reading, [154];
• newspaper “gas,” [155];
• newspaper “reliable,” [156];
• Chicago “Times,” [156];
• “ingenious nonsense,” [158];
• “husked out,” [158];
• letter to Lovejoy Monument Association, [160];
• Massett, [160];
• Christian Commission, [162];
• renomination, [162];
• apparition, [164];
• Mrs. Lincoln, [164], [293], [301];
• speech to committee from Baltimore Convention, and William Lloyd Garrison, [167];
• Mrs. Cropsey, [168];
• and soldiers, [169];
• reprieves, [171];
• a handsome President, [174];
• idiotic boy, [176];
• Andersonville prisoners, [178];
• retaliation, [178];
• Fessenden, [182];
• McCulloch, [184];
• religious experience, [185–188];
• rebel ladies, [189];
• Col. Deming, [190];
• creeds, [190];
• Newton Bateman, [192];
• slavery, [194];
• prayer, [195];
• epitaph suggested, [196];
• Bible presentation, [197];
• Caroline Johnson, once a slave, [199];
• Sojourner Truth, [201–203];
• Frederick Douglass, [204];
• memorial from children, [204];
• New Year’s Day, 1865, [205];
• “walk de earf like de Lord,” [209];
• Rebel Peace Commissioners, [212];
• “slave map,” [215];
• Kilpatrick, [216];
• personal description, [217], [323];
• opinion on the war, [219];
• text applied to Fremont, [220];
• reappointment of Fremont, [222];
• California lady’s account of a visit at “Soldiers’ Home,” [223];
• on “trees,” [224];
• “school of events,” [225];
• McClellan, [130], [143], [227], [255];
• Peace Convention, [229];
• Henry Ward Beecher, [230];
• popularity with the soldiers and people, [231];
• portraits, [46], [231];
• Lieutenant Cushing, [232];
• last inaugural, [234];
• his election to the legislature in 1834, [234];
• never invented a “story,” [235];
• first political speech, [236];
• contest with Douglas, [237];
• affection for his step-mother, [238];
• reply to anti-slavery delegation from New York, [239];
• reply to a clergyman, [239];
• concerning Gov. Gamble of Missouri, [242];
• on Seward’s “poetry,” [242];
• betrothal of Prince of Wales, [243];
• honesty as a lawyer, [245];
• “attorney of the people,” [245];
• “little influence with this administration,” [246];
• reply to Stanton’s detractor, [246];
• the German lieutenant, [246];
• General Grant’s “whiskey,” [247];
• no personal vices, [247];
• serenade speeches, [248];
• his own war minister, [249];
• illustration from “Euclid,” [249];
• “pigeon-hearted,” [250];
• “minneboohoo,” [251];
• Hannibal’s wars, [253];
• reports of committees, [253];
• Brigadier-Generals, [254], [260];
• twelve hundred thousand rebels in the field, [255];
• Assessor Gilbert, [255];
• on canes, [256];
• hogshead illustration, [256];
• on Missouri Compromise, [257];
• “Statute of Limitations,” [257];
• Blondin crossing Niagara, [257];
• reply to attacks, [258];
• Chicago “Democratic Platform,” [259];
• death of John Morgan, [259];
• case of Franklin W. Smith, [259];
• “royal” blood, [261];
• reading the Bible, [262];
• thinking of a man down South, [263];
• presentiment of death, [263];
• the wards of the nation, [264];
• Lincoln and Stanton, [265];
• as a flat-boatman, [267];
• Louisiana negro, [268];
• Stonewall Jackson, [268];
• reply to Kentuckians, [269];
• letter to General Wadsworth, [270];
• extract from speech in Congress, [271];
• “browsing around,” [272];
• the negro porter, [272];
• Rev. Dr. Bellows and Surgeon-General Hammond, [274];
• the election of President the people’s business, [275];
• appointment of chaplains, [277];
• appreciation of humor, [278];
• “public opinion baths,” [281];
• “on the Lord’s side,” [282];
• going down with colors flying, [282];
• opinion of General Grant, [283];
• interview with Messrs. Colfax and Ashmun, evening of assassination, [284];
• at City-Point hospital, [287];
• Lincoln and the rebel soldier, [288];
• last interview with Secretary Seward, [290];
• his dream, [292];
• last afternoon, [293];
• Lincoln and Willie Bladen, [294];
• “you don’t wear hoops,” &c., [297];
• Grist illustration, [298];
• his duel, [302];
• interview with Judge Mills and ex-Gov. Randall, (Wis.,) [305];
• Lincoln and Rev. J. P. Gulliver, [309];
• shedding of blood, the remission of sins, [319];
• Lincoln and the drummer-boy, [319];
• consideration of the humble illustrated, [321];
• “may you live a thousand years, and always be the head of this great nation,” [322];
• Herndon’s analysis of character, [323];
• indifference to ceremony, [326];
• final criticism of the painting, [353];
• farewell words, [354].
• Lincoln, Robert, [45], [300].
• Lincoln, “Tad,” [44], [91], [92], [293], [300].
• Lincoln, “Willie,” [44], [116].
• Lovejoy, Hon. Owen, [14], [17], [18], [20], [47], [57], [157].
• Lincoln’s “Stories.”
• General Scott and Jones the sculptor, [34];
• “great” men, [37];
• Daniel Webster, [37], [131];
• Thad. Stevens, [38];
• “a little more light and a little less noise,” [49];
• tax on “state” banks, [53];
• Andy Johnson and Colonel Moody, [102];
• “chin fly,” [129];
• Secretary Cameron’s retirement, [138];
• Wade and Davis’ “manifesto,” [145];
• “second advent,” [147];
• “nothing but a noise,” [155];
• “swabbing windows,” [159];
• “mistakes,” [233];
• “picket” story, [233];
• “plaster of psalm tunes,” [239];
• “Fox River,” [240];
• “nudum pactum,” [241];
• harmonizing the “Democracy,” [244];
• Mrs. Sallie Ward and her children, [247];
• a Western judge, [250];
• “lost my apple overboard,” [252];
• rigid government and close construction, [254];
• “breakers” ahead, [256];
• counterfeit bill, [262];
• blasting rocks, [262];
• General Phelps’s emancipation proclamation, [273];
• making “ministers,” [277];
• John Tyler, [278];
• the Irish soldier and Jacob Thompson, [283];
• Jeff. Davis and the coon, [284];
• last story,—“how Patagonians eat oysters,” told to Marshal Lamon on evening of assassination, [285].
• M.
• Marine Band, [168].
• “Massa Sam’s dead,” [207].
• McClellan, [130], [143], [227], [255].
• McCulloch, Hon. Hugh, [179], [185].
• McKaye, Colonel, [208].
• McVeagh, [242].
• Memory, [52].
• Miller, Hon. S. F., 5, [174].
• Mills, Judge J. T., (Wis.,) [305].
• Mix, Captain, [261].
• Moody, Colonel, [102].
• Morgan, John, [259].
• Morgan, Senator, [74].
• Murtagh, Mr., (Washington,) [321]
• N.
• “Nasby Papers,” [151].
• Newspapers, [154].
• Nicolay, [149].
• Norfolk, (capture,) [104], [240].
• Novels, [115].
• O.
• Odell, Hon. M. F., [170], [178].
• “Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud?” (Poem,) [60].
• Owen, Robert Dale, [98].
• P.
• Pardon applications, [40], [43], [132], [171], [172], [173], [174], [175], [176], [250], [296], [297], [318].
• Patterson, General, [137].
• Peace Conference at Hampton Roads, [209].
• Phelps, General, [273].
• Pierpont, Rev. John, [78], [179].
• R.
• Randall, ex-Governor, (Wis.,) [305].
• Raymond, [95], [129].
• Red River disaster, [55].
• Religious character, [185].
• “Root,” General, [70].
• “Root Hog” Story, [211].
• S.
• Scott, General, [34].
• Seward, Secretary, [22], [69], [223], [242];
• on Clay and Webster, [71];
• on “Equestrian” Statues, [71];
• on Emancipation, [72];
• on Mr. Lincoln, [81];
• Seward and Lincoln, [290];
• the last interview, [290];
• first knowledge of the President’s death, [291].
• Seymour, General, [48].
• Shakspeare, [49], [115], [150], [162].
• Shannon, Hon. Thomas, [147], [148].
• Sherman, General, [233].
• Shields and Lincoln, [302].
• “Simmons, Pollard,” [111].
• Sinclair, [16], [48].
• Sizer, Nelson, [134].
• Slave Map, [215].
• Smith, Franklin W., [259].
• “Sojourner Truth,” [201–203].
• “Soldiers’ Home,” [223].
• “Spectator,” (London,) [31].
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, [101].
• Stanton, Secretary, [33], [54], [264], [300].
• Stephens, Alexander, [211], [215].
• Stephens, Mrs. Ann S., [131].
• Stevens, Hon. Thaddeus, [38], [173].
• Stone, Dr., [81].
• Swayne, (Sculptor,) [59].
• T.
• Taylor, B. F., [154].
• Thompson, George, [75].
• Thompson, Rev. J. P., [143], [186]. [259].
• Tilton, [89], [167], [196].
• V.
• Van Alen, [173].
• Vinton, Rev. Francis, [117].
• W.
• Wade and Davis, [145].
• Wadsworth, General, [270].
• Washington, raid on, [301].
• Webster, [37], [71], [130].
• Welles, Secretary, [232].
• Wetmore, P. M., [140].
• Wilderness battles, [30].
• Wilkeson, [101].
• Willets, Rev., [187].
• Willis, N. P., [115].
• Y.
• Yates, Governor, [267].

THE END.

Transcriber’s Notes