Includes index "Revealed in the letters, addresses, state papers and other writings of Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Stephen A. Douglas, James Russell Lowell, Alexander H. Stephens, Salmon P. Chase, John C. Crittenden, Charles Sumner and many others"--T.p Who made the Mexican War? (1848) / Abraham Lincoln -- The philosophy of slavery (1854) / Abraham Lincoln -- Central idea of equality (1856) / Abraham Lincoln -- The democracy of the Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858) / Carl Schurz -- "A house divided against itself cannot stand" (1858) / Abraham Lincoln -- Meaning of the Declaration of Independence (1858, 1859) / Abraham Lincoln -- Mudsill theory of labor (1859) / Abraham Lincoln -- Young America an old fogy (1860) / Abraham Lincoln -- The Union made the states and not the states the Union (1861) / President Abraham Lincoln -- Appeal for Union (1861) / President Abraham Lincoln -- The West for freedom (1862) / President Abraham Lincoln -- Proclamation of emancipation (1863) / President Abraham Lincoln -- The speech at Gettysburg (1863) / President Abraham Lincoln -- The loss of sons (1864) / President Abraham Lincoln -- "Malice toward none-charity toward all" (1865) / President Abraham Lincoln -- "New birth of our new soil, the first American" (1865) / James Russell Lowell -- Abraham Lincoln (1909) / President Theodore Roosevelt -- Abraham Lincoln (1916) / President Woodrow Wilson Book, bound in leather with cloth spine; back cover detached, loose pages, spine chipped 18