Our American Holidays: Lincolns Birthday

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American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday, by Various

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Title: Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings
Author: Various
Editor: Robert Haven Schauffler
Release Date: May 2, 2007 [EBook #21267]
Language: English
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Our American Holidays
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY

Our American Holidays
A series of Anthologies upon American Holidays, each volume a collection of writings from many sources, historical, poetic, religious, patriotic, etc., presenting each American festival as seen through the eyes of the representative writers of many ages and nations.
EDITED BY ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER
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Our American Holidays
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY
A COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF LINCOLN AS GIVEN IN THE MOST NOTEWORTHY ESSAYS, ORATIONS AND POEMS, IN FICTION AND IN LINCOLN'S OWN WRITINGS
EDITED BY ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER
NEW YORK MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY 1916

Copyright, 1909, by MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY NEW YORK
Published, January, 1909
2nd Printing--June, 1911 3rd Printing--July, 1914 4th Printing--Feb. 1916

CONTENTS
PAGE PREFACE ix
INTRODUCTION xi
I A BIRDSEYE VIEW OF LINCOLN
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 3 A BRIEF SUMMARY OF LINCOLN'S LIFE Osborn H. Oldroyd 6
II EARLY LIFE
LINCOLN'S EDUCATION Horace Greeley 15 ABE LINCOLN'S HONESTY 17 THE BOY THAT HUNGERED FOR KNOWLEDGE 18 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Florence E. Pratt 19 YOUNG LINCOLN'S KINDNESS OF HEART 20 A VOICE FROM THE WILDERNESS Charles Sumner 21 CHOOSING ABE LINCOLN CAPTAIN 22
III MATURITY
LINCOLN'S MARRIAGE 31 HOW LINCOLN AND JUDGE B---- SWAPPED HORSES 33 LINCOLN AS A MAN OF LETTERS H. W. Mabie 34 LINCOLN'S PRESENCE OF BODY 44 HOW LINCOLN BECAME A NATIONAL FIGURE Ida M. Tarbell 45 LINCOLN'S LOVE FOR THE LITTLE ONES 89 HOW LINCOLN TOOK HIS ALTITUDE 90
IV IN THE WHITE HOUSE
HOW LINCOLN WAS ABUSED 95 SONNET IN 1862 John James Piatt 96 LINCOLN THE PRESIDENT James Russell Lowell 96 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Frank Moore 109 THE PROCLAMATION John Greenleaf Whittier 110 THE EMANCIPATION James A. Garfield 112 THE EMANCIPATION GROUP John Greenleaf Whittier 121 ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S CHRISTMAS GIFT Nora Perry 122
V DEATH OF LINCOLN
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! Walt Whitman 127 ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S DEATH Walt Whitman 128 HUSHED BE THE CAMPS TO-DAY Walt Whitman 134 TO THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN William Cullen Bryant 135 CROWN HIS BLOODSTAINED PILLOW Julia Ward Howe 136 THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Walt Whitman 137 OUR SUN HATH GONE DOWN Phoebe Cary 139 TOLLING Lucy Larcom 142 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Rose Terry Cooke 143 EFFECT OF THE DEATH OF LINCOLN Henry Ward Beecher 144 HYMN Oliver Wendell Holmes 151 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Tom Taylor 153
VI TRIBUTES
THE MARTYR CHIEF James Russell Lowell 159 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Ralph Waldo Emerson 161 WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN William McKinley 169 LINCOLN Theodore Roosevelt 170 LINCOLN'S GRAVE Maurice Thompson 170 TRIBUTES TO LINCOLN 173 ABRAHAM LINCOLN H. H. Brownell 174 TRIBUTES 189 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Joel Benton 189 ON THE LIFE-MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Richard Watson Gilder 190 LINCOLN George H. Boker 192 ABRAHAM LINCOLN James A. Garfield 193 AN HORATIAN ODE R. H. Stoddard 195 SOME FOREIGN TRIBUTES TO LINCOLN Harriet Beecher Stowe 202 THE GETTYSBURG ODE Bayard Taylor 211 TRIBUTES 212 LINCOLN Macmillan's Magazine 214 ABRAHAM LINCOLN R. H. Stoddard 215 LINCOLN Edna Dean Proctor 215 WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D Walt Whitman 218
VII THE WHOLE MAN
LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE Edwin Markham 233 LIFE AND CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN George Bancroft 235 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Goldwin Smith 276 GREATNESS OF HIS SIMPLICITY H. A. Delano 278 HORACE GREELEY'S ESTIMATE OF LINCOLN 279 LINCOLN J. T. Trowbridge 282 THE RELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF LINCOLN B. B. Tyler 282 TO THE SPIRIT OF LINCOLN R. W. Gilder 296 LINCOLN AS A TYPICAL AMERICAN Phillips Brooks 297 LINCOLN AS CAVALIER AND PURITAN H. W. Grady 304 LINCOLN, THE TENDER-HEARTED H. W. Bolton 306 THE CHARACTER OF LINCOLN W. H. Herndon 307 "WITH CHARITY FOR ALL" W. T. Sherman 317 LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY Ida V. Woodbury 318 FEBRUARY TWELFTH M. H. Howliston 319 TWO FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS L. M. Hadley and C. Z. Denton 323
VIII LINCOLN'S PLACE IN HISTORY
THE THREE GREATEST AMERICANS Theodore Roosevelt 333 HIS CHOICE AND HIS DESTINY F. M. Bristol 333 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Robert G. Ingersoll 334 LINCOLN Paul Laurence Dunbar 341 THE GRANDEST FIGURE Walt Whitman 342 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Lyman Abbott 345 "LINCOLN THE IMMORTAL" Anonymous 346 THE CRISIS AND THE HERO Frederic Harrison 349 LINCOLN John