Identifier: abrahamlincolnme00mccl (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times. Some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly), 1828-1909
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Biography
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Times Publishing Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hillside and valley of the State thereare grizzled veterans and their children and their chil-drens children whose hearts throb with grateful emotionas they speak of the Soldiers Friend.
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(Photo by Brady, Washington.) THADDEUS STEVENS, lS66. LINCOLN AND STEVENS. ABRAHAM LIXCOLX and Thaddeiis Stevens were/j^ strangely mated. Lincoln as President and Stevensas Commoner of the nation during the entire period of oursectional war assumed the highest civil responsibilities inthe administrative and legislative departments of the gov-ernment. While Lincoln was President of the whole peo-ple, Stevens, as Commoner, was their immediate represen-tative and oracle in the po))uhir l^ranch of Congress whenthe most momentous legislatixe measures of our historywere conceived an*cl enacted. No two men were so muchalike in all the sympath\- of greatness for the friendlessand the lowly, and yet no two men could have beenmore unlike in the methods by which they sought toobtain the same great end. Lincolns humanity wasone of the master attributes of his character, and it wasnext to impossible for him to punish e\en those most de-serving of it. In Stevens humanit\ and justice weresingularly

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