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Abraham Lincoln and the Union, A Chronicle of the Embattled North
BY NATHANIEL W. STEPHENSON

NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS TORONTO:
GLASGOW, BROOK & CO. LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1918

PREFACE
In spite of a lapse of sixty years, the historian who attempts to portray
the era of Lincoln is still faced with almost impossible demands and
still confronted with arbitrary points of view. It is out of the question,
in a book so brief as this must necessarily be, to meet all these demands
or to alter these points of view. Interests that are purely local, events
that did not with certainty contribute to the final outcome, gossip, as

well as the mere caprice of the scholar--these must obviously be set
aside.
The task imposed upon the volume resolves itself, at bottom, into just
two questions: Why was there a war? Why was the Lincoln
Government successful? With these two questions always in mind I
have endeavored, on the one hand, to select and consolidate the
pertinent facts; on the other, to make clear, even at the cost of
explanatory comment, their relations in the historical sequence of cause
and effect. This purpose has particularly governed the use of
biographical matter, in which the main illustration, of course, is the
career of Lincoln. Prominent as it is here made, the Lincoln matter all
bears in the last analysis on one point--his control of his support. On
that the history of the North hinges. The personal and private Lincoln it
is impossible to present within these pages. The public Lincoln,
including the character of his mind, is here the essential matter.
The bibliography at the close of the volume indicates the more
important books which are at the reader's disposal and which it is
unfortunate not to know.
NATHANIEL W. STEPHENSON. Charleston, S. C., March, 1918.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE UNION

INDEX
I. THE TWO NATIONS OF THE REPUBLIC
II. THE PARTY OF POLITICAL EVASION
III. THE