Why We Love Lincoln

ILLUSTRATIONS

Lincoln early in 1861	[Frontispiece]
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The Kentucky log cabin in which Lincoln was born	[12]
Lincoln debating with Douglas in 1858	[24]
The Globe Tavern, Springfield, where Lincoln lived	[36]
Lincoln in 1857	[48]
Senator Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln’s great rival	[60]
Abraham Lincoln (in about 1860)	[72]
A rare photograph of Lincoln in 1860	[84]
Carpenter’s picture of Lincoln’s cabinet	[98]
Fac-simile of Lincoln’s Letter of Acceptance	[102]
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln	[108]
St. Gauden’s statue, Lincoln Park, Chicago	[120]
Head of Lincoln, by Gutzon Borglum	[132]
Life mask of Lincoln while President	[142]
Autograph Copy of Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg	[148]
Lincoln statue, E. Capitol and Thirteenth Street, Washington	[154]
One of the last photographs of Lincoln	[166]

I

While our great battleship fleet thundered peace and friendship to the world, as it moved from sea to sea, stinging pens and voices in one country after another answered that America had suddenly passed from blustering youth to cynical old age, and that the harmless effrontery of our nationality in the past was not to be confounded with the cold-brained, organized, money-worshipping greed of the new generation of Americans.

Meanwhile, in all parts of the American continent, preparations were being made to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the humblest, simplest and plainest of our national leaders, whose name no American can utter without emotion.

We think of Washington with pride, of Jefferson and Madison with intellectual reverence, and of Jackson and Grant with grateful consciousness of their strength.