Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher.

CHAPTER I.--ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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The Men of our Time--Lincoln Foremost--The War was the Working-Man's Revolution--Abraham Lincoln's Birth and Youth-- The Books he Read--The Thirty Thousand Dollars for Tender-- The Old Stocking of Government Money--A Just Lawyer; Anecdotes --His First Candidacy and Speech--Goes to Legislature and Congress--The Seven Debates and Campaign against Douglass in 1858--Webster's and Lincoln's Language Compared--The Cooper Institute Speech--The Nomination at Chicago--Moral and Physical Courage--The Backwoodsman President and the Diplomatists--Significance of his Presidential Career-- Religious Feelings--His Kindness--"The Baby Did It"--The First Inaugural--The Second Inaugural, and other State Papers --The Conspiracy and Assassination--The Opinions of Foreign Nations on Mr. Lincoln. 11