Introductory / Allen Thorndike Rice -- Lincoln's story of his own life / Leonard Swett -- Political life in Illinois / E.B. Washburne -- Leader of the Illinois bar / Lawrence Weldon -- The Lincoln-Douglas debates and the Gettysburg oration / Hugh McCulloch -- Lincoln's first nomination and his visit to Richmond in 1865 / Charles Carleton Coffin -- Lincoln and the Cabinet / Titian J. Coffey -- Lincoln and slavery / J.P. Usher -- Lincoln and the Proclamation of Emancipation / George W. Julian -- Some of Lincoln's problems / Benjamin F. Butler -- Lincoln and the War Department / Charles A. Dana -- Two stories of Lincoln / U.S. Grant -- Lincoln's kindness of heart / E.W. Andrews -- Lincoln and New York / R.E. Fenton -- Lincoln and the Colored Troops / Frederick Douglas -- Lincoln and the newspaper correspondents / Benjamin Perley Poore -- Lincoln the man / Donn Piatt -- Lincoln's personality / Henry Ward Beecher -- Lincoln in history / George S. Boutwell -- "Dear to Democracy" / Walt Whitman -- "The gentlest memory of our world" / Robert G. Ingersoll Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography Oakleaf, J. Lincoln bibliography 1 18