Identifier: abrahamlincolnhart (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 Mentor Association (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: (New York) : Mentor Association, Inc.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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were moving toward emancipation. The Proclamation ofEmancipation applied only to ten of the eleven seceding states then inarms against the government; but the moral effect of that proclama-tion and of the definite proc-lamation of January i, 1863,made it clear that if the Northsucceeded, slavery would die;and if the South succeeded, itwould probably live. The Civil War was a timeof great exaltation of spirit,both North and South. In themidst of horrors and miseries,the crushing disappointmentsof defeat, the fearful cost ofvictory, both sides felt a pas-sionate sense of devotion tothe cause. In the midst ofthat awful time the steadiestand most unquenchable spiritwas always that of AbrahamLincoln. He was great notonly because he understoodhis countrymen, but becausehe could get on with Congress,and—what was harder—withthe members of his own cabi-net, several of whom thoughtthey were his superiors. Buthe became the father andleader of millions of people;and his patience, his forbear-
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