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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 1,765 1 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 495 1 Browse Search
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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 410 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 405 1 Browse Search
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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Preface for second edition: 1921 (search)
Preface for second edition: 1921 I once knew a man who wrote a brilliant biography of Abraham Lincoln. He himself belonged to the Civil War epoch, and while writing the book in about the year 1895, he became so absorbed and excited by that war as he studied it, and lived it over again, that he could not sleep at night. He paced the room, lost in thought, awed by his subject. It was a contemporary of this biographer who told me that, while the Civil War was in progress, the enthusiastic historian had taken no interest in it; it did n't seem to attract his attention. This anecdote shows how much easier it is to see a hero in the past than in the present. The historian is a book-trained man; records and documents speak to him; dead things live again. But he cannot get his mind into focus upon anything so near as the present. He is distracted by the present, but supported by the past; for in the past he is not alone. As he studies it, the whole literature of his chosen per
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 1: introduction (search)
thering and coming on of that war, its vaporous distillation from the breath of every man, its slow, inevitable formation in the sky, its retreats and apparent dispersals, its renewed visibilities-all of them governed by some inscrutable logic — and its final descent in lightning and deluge;--these matters make the history of the interval between 1830 and 1865. That history is all one galvanic throb, one course of human passion, one Nemesis, one deliverance. And with the assassination of Lincoln in 1865 there falls from on high the great, unifying stroke that leaves the tragedy sublime. No poet ever invented such a scheme of curse, so all-involving, so remotely rising in an obscure past and holding an entire nation in its mysterious bondage — a scheme based on natural law, led forward and unfolded from mood to mood, from climax to climax, and plunging at the close into the depths of a fathomless pity. The action of the drama is upon such a scale that a quarter of the earth has to
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 4: pictures of the struggle (search)
f the storm comes, we must abide its pelting; if convulsions come, we must be in the midst of them. To us, then, it belongs to judge of the exigencies of our own condition, to provide for our own safety, and perform our own duties without the audacious interference of foreign emissaries. I am grateful to this man, George Thompson. He stood for courage in 1835 in Massachusetts. He typified courage also at a later time during the Civil War when he stood with John Bright and W. E. Forster as the expounders of the cause of the North before the people of Great Britain. He was one of the friends of the United States to whom it is due that England's governing classes did not assist the South openly, and thereby give rise to an age-long, never-dying antagonism between England and America. I am glad that George Thompson lived to be thanked by Lincoln and his Cabinet, and to be ceremoniously received in a House of Representatives thronged with the best intellects and hearts in America.
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 6: Retrospect and prospect. (search)
n,--Webster, Calhoun, Sumner, Taney, Douglas, Lincoln,--each of whom had his bout with the problem.ss the pages of our history from Jefferson to Lincoln — sad, perplexed men. The solution given bnsight as well as great political courage for Lincoln to state what was known to everyone. In 1858eeper sense than Seward imagined or than even Lincoln could guess. Seward with his perception of tict between opposing and enduring forces, and Lincoln with his vision of the blood of white men, drAmerican nation better than the moderation of Lincoln's speeches, a moderation which he was obligedas a war, not about Slavery but about Union. Lincoln was thus obliged to befog his State papers wisider really began to doubt whether, perhaps, Lincoln meant that slavery might be retained in the e it Union he is ready to die for humanity. Lincoln, then, during the years of his leadership was technical nature of all our history. One of Lincoln's chief interests in life, from early manhood[1 more...]
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 7: the man of action (search)
ical emergency with such startling felicity as Garrison. Take for example, the text provided by him for Wendell Phillips's speech on the Sunday morning following Lincoln's call for troops in 1861. Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming liberty everyone to his brother, and every man to his neigh no exaggeration in the statement: it is absolutely true. It is a complete answer to the Constitutional point; and makes all our antebellum public men (including Lincoln) appear a little benighted. They are like men who have been born in a darkness and have lived always in a twilight. They all have a slight, congenital weakness f the United States, to rejoice in bloodshed, to take active part in political contests,--both in the great occasional National elections (as when he came out for Lincoln or Fremont), and in the continuous petty politics of the Anti-slavery cause. After having supported one of these human institutions with zeal, and having just
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 10: foreign influence: summary (search)
ty, or resiliency. He is fed with artificial life, through the fact that thousands of men are sustaining him by their attention and in their hope. Thus in 1858, Lincoln suddenly became the great general-agent of political Antislavery in America; because his brain was exactly fitted for this work, which deified him quite rapidly. ch other at the outset, they were in moral union before long; and they fought the war through together. It was my privilege once, and once only, to talk with Abraham Lincoln, at Petersburg, Va., April 6, 1865, says Daniel H. Chamberlain. His face, his figure, his attitudes, his words, form the most remarkable picture in my memory, oracles. Garrison, at this juncture, is as empty as the prophets of Baal: he knows nothing. Earth's remedies have failed. No one is abreast of the situation. Lincoln only waits. At this moment, when the catastrophe is in the sky and the thud of Fate's footsteps can be heard, there occurred that thing which Herndon had spoken
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
t E., 24. Liberator, the, G.'s first editorial in, 35-41; founded by G., 47, 56; Southern campaign against, 51, 52; and Hayne, 53, 54; office of, 57, 58; office of, closed, 123, 124; 82, 97, 98, 99, 148, 150, 152, 153, 167, 168, 179, 189. Lincoln, Abraham, assassination of, 5; and slavery, 143, 144; his enforced moderation, 145, 146; and emancipation, 147; 97, 140, 165, 171, 175, 241, 243, 259. Louisiana Purchase, 9, Io. Louisiana territory, slavery in, 9. Lovejoy, Elijah P., murder ; W. E. Channing and, 26ff.; attitudeof Northern merchants toward, 32, 33; vulture quality of, 48; friends of, and Channing's pamphlet, 87,88; J. Q. Adams and, 91; death agony of, began in 1830, 137; and Freedom, nature of contest between, 143; Lincoln and, 143 ff.; and the Constitution, 140 ff., 168 if.; attitude of South toward, 187, 188; horrors of, discovered by Abolitionists, 188; complicity of churches with, 200; Emerson and, 228; history of, review, 253 if.; influence of, North and Sout