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The real Lincoln : from the testimony of his contemporaries

Print Book, English, 1904
2nd ed., rev. and enl View all formats and editions
Everett Waddey Co., Richmond, Va., 1904
232 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 20 cm
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Was Lincoln heroic?
Was Lincoln a Christian?
Lincoln's jokes and stories
Estimates of Lincoln
Did Lincoln ever intend that the masters be paid for their slaves?
Opposition to abolition before the war
Secession long threatened
coercion never seriously thought of till 1861
Change of the issue
star of the west
Resistance in Congress
Opposition in the Regular Army
Opposition in the Volunteer Army
Opposition to the Emancipation Proclamation
In what proportion divided
Attitude of England
Despotism threatened
Outline of the despotism
General opposition and resistance to coercion and to emancipation
Despotism in Maryland
Despotism in Kentucky
Despotism in Indiana
Attitude of Ohio and Illinois
Attitude of Philadelphia and New York
Attitude of Iowa and other states
Purpose of emancipation
Opposition to Lincoln's re-election
How Lincoln got himself re-elected
Apotheosis of Lincoln
What this book would teach
Edited by Berkeley Minor and Mary Willis Minor
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