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Title: Abraham Lincoln's executive routine
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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n, \ou go homo, think it over, andcome to-morrow ami toll me what todo. / ¥ $f Dickson weut home; he thought itovor—and he didnt come near thepresident for six weeks. Then be acci-dently met h m at a reception. Lin-colns long arm reached out from thecrowd and grasping his buttonhole,drew him to h s side. Dickson hosaid, and there was a shy twinkle iuhis eye as he spoke, you diitut comeround to tell me what to do. Whynot? It may be added that Mr. Dick-son ever afterward maintained thatAbe Lincoln was the greatest manAmerica possessed. Ami the northerngovernors, by the shrewd absence ofaffront or refusal to accept any viewthey might proffer, were held in friend-ly allegiance to the chieftain of thetime. — boston Journd. WK I GBT A STUDY OF LINCOLN. THE MASTER IN DIPLOMACY, DE-BATE AND POLITICS. Genius In Cowhide Boots—Something ThatCharles A. Dana Will Remember—Lin-coln In Action and In Fitness of Speech.A Man of Many Sorrows. (Copyright, 1805, by American Press Associa-tion. )
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HE Lincoln bibli-ography comprises i thousands of vol-umes, and each yearadds to the cata-logue. Y o t theworld, not onlyAmerican, but for-eign, never tires ofreading his lifo and studying its cipher.Lincoln was always something of anenigma, and there is a feeling not yetdead that the last word has not yet been6aid concerning the man, unique andcomplex above all his compeers. Ho be-longed to the plain people, Avhoin heloved, andwhowero ever in his mouth.He was their voice, ouo with them iuthe limitations of taste and in tho ele-mental forces of temperament. Likothem, ho wasted hut little thought ontho graces of culture. It was not, onemay fancy, that ho did not esteem thothings which decorate social and intel-lectual life. But these had not beenmothers milk to him, and when gigan-tic issues clutched him in their gripthey so miuimized lesser ideals as tomake them worthless. So he remained to the last, genius incowhide boots, a man of the backwoodsin outer seeming, but with tho delicateabrahamlincolnselinc_0

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