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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
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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yr to liberty. Their natures were an-tipodal, and it is perhaps by contemplatingthe contrast that the character of Davis maybe best understood. His dominant mental traits were subtletyand will. His nature was one of reserve andpride. His biographers give us no glimpse ofhis private life. They show us little sympathyof companionship, or sunshine of genial hu-mor. Houston is reported to have said of himthat he was as ambitious as Lucifer and ascold as a lizard. His fancy hved in a worldof masters and slaves. His education taughthim nothing but the law of subordination andthe authority of command. A Democrat byparty name, he was an aristocrat in feelingand practice. He was a type of the highestSouthern culture and most exclusive Southerncaste. His social ideas were of the past. Inpolitical theory he was a sophist, and not alogician. With him, consent of the governed in a State was truth ; consent of the sov- 68 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. -TtrFpijtrp I-nn-- in. iTn-iiiit;;i(i~iin)iir;yi)ii;n T^^jqa
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JEFFERSON DAVIS, PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRADY.) erned in a Territory was error. Rebellion in a State must be obeyed; rebellion in aTerritory must be crushed. Constitutionalforms in Kansas in the interest of slavery were.sacred law; constitutional forms in the Unionm the interest of freedom were flagrant usur-pation. The majority in a State was enthronedfreedom ; a majority in the nation was insuffer-able despotism. But even his central dogmabecame pliant before considerations of self- interest. In his own State, a majority of seventhousand against Quitman in September hetreated as a dangerous pohtical heresy to beoverthrown by his personal championship. Amajority of one thousand against himself inNovember he affected to regard as a commandto stultify his own opinions. His beliefs wereat war with the most essential principles ofAmerican government. He denied the truthof tlie Declaration of Independence, denied THE PRESFDENT-ELECT AT SPRING

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