Our American Holidays: Lincolns Birthday

American Holidays: Lincoln's
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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]
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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