Chapter I: �abraham Lincoln

The Men of our Time�Lincoln Foremost�The War was the Working-Man's Revolution�Abraham Lincoln's Birth and Youth�The Books he Read�The Thirty Thousand Dollars for Tender�The Old Stocking of Government Money�A Just Lawyer; Anecdotes�His First Candidacy and Speech�Goes to Legislature and Congress�The Seven Debates and Campaign against Douglass in 1858�Webster's and Lincoln's Language Compared�The Cooper Institute Speech�The Nomination at Chicago�Moral and Physical Courage�The Backwoodsman President and the Diplomatists�Significance of his Presidential Career�Religious Feelings�His Kindness�"The Baby Did It"�The First Inaugural�The Second Inaugural, and other State Papers�The Conspiracy and Assassination�The Opinions of Foreign Nations on Mr. Lincoln. 11