'^o.**' .*. .•••*. ft? ^Ca .^^ *-r c,°*.i^.>o /\.i.:^,\ o°*.t^;;>*^ ••^W:' A ^^^^ %<& ^ .^i:^* IP's V Mcfl^ C^€Jo Je^r^' LINCOLN CENTENARY FEBRUARY 12, 1909 The weary fonn. that rested not. Save in a martyr's grave; The care-worn face that none forgot, Turned to the kneeling slave. We rest in peace, where his sad eyes Saw peril, strife and pain; His was the awful sacrifice. And ours, the priceless gain. John G. Whittier NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Lincoln Centenary FEBRUARY 12, 1909 A PROSPECTUS FOR THE SCHOOLS OF THE STATE COMPILED BY HARLAN HOYT HORNER By permission of the Lincoln History Society Lincoln's birthplace ALBANY NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 1909 n. ,. ABRAHAM LINCOLN no man has expressed the feelings of America so well as President Lincoln ; and no man in this or any other land has been more truly great. He was the child of poor parents. He was born in a log cabin. He went to school but little because he lived where there were no schools. When a boy and young man he worked hard with his hands and it gave him a healthy body. He studied a few good books and it gave him a clear head. He liked history. He mastered mathematics and did surveying. He was interested in politics, and his mind grasped the laws easily. He read about the principles of government, and thought about the rights of men. He became a lawyer. He was elected to the Legislature of Illinois, and then to the Congress of the United States. The experiences thus gained helped to make him a successful lawyer. He was much interested in the affairs of the people, in universal justice, and in the good of his country. He thought for himself and he thought hard and straight. He had a keen sense of humor and a fine gift of wit. He wrote so plainly, and he spoke in public so clearly, that all the people could understand him. But he had even greater qualities. His habits were simple and he lived without great show. He was true and sincere, and the people believed in him. All these things made him a leader, a statesman, and a very great man. The country was deeply agitated about slavery, it had existed in all of the states in earlier years ; and it then existed in all of the Southern States, where there were five millions of slaves. He abhorred human bondage, but he abhorred war also. The laws allowed slavery in the South, and he thought it impossible to change the laws and abolish slavery without bringing on a war between the Northern and the Southern States. He hoped for an easier and better way. But many tried to carry slavery into the new states and territories that were being formed beyond the Mississippi river. He was opposed to that, whether war came or not. He spoke hundreds of times against it, and what he said made him President of the United States. This brought on a dreadful war, which lasted four years. Great armies of 4 ciiizens were organized to save the Uniotn. Half a million of the best men in the country, North and South, lost their lives. There was sorrow in nearly every family, and distress in almost every home. In the midst of the war President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proc- lamation, freeing all the slaves. It was the greatest act of a great and noble President, who was right in his reasoning, clear in his statements, courageous in his acts, and humane in his treatment of all upon whom the war brought misfortune. He thought little of himself He wanted, above all things, to save the Union. He was very happy when he came to believe that he could make the nation wholly free and save the Union at the same time. Guided by God, in whom he bei.eved, he led the forces of Freedom and Union to a splendid national triumph ; and all. including the people of the South, are now glad of it. The abolition of slavery brought freedom to all who live under the flag of the Union, and opened the way for us to become a more united and a very much greater nation. Just as the war ended, when President Lincoln was fif;y.six years old, he was assassinated, and all the people mourned as never before nor since. His life was the best expression we have ever had of the humanity, the industry, the sense, the conscience, the freedom, the justice, the progress, the unity, and the destiny of the Nation. His memory is our best human inspiration. So we may well honor ourselves by studying about him and by holding special exercises in the schools in memory of him upon the one hundredth anniversary of his birth. STATE OF NEW YORK EDUCATION DEPARTMENT DECEMBER 28, O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O Captain ! my Captain ! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells 1 hear, the people all exulting. While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring ; But O heart ! heart I heart I O the bleeding drops of red. Where on the deck my Captain lies. Fallen cold and dead. O Captain ! my Captain I rise up and hear the bells ; Rise up — for you the flag is flung — for you the bugle trills. For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths — for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning ; Here Captain ! dear father 1 This arm beneath your head I It is some dream that on tSe deck You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still. My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will. The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done. From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won ; Exult O shores, and ring O bells I But I, Wwh mournful tread. Walk the deck my Captain lies. Fallen cold and dead. Walt Whitman Lincoln and Tad Lincoln's two little boys ••Willie" and ■'Tad" were his closest companions after he went to .he Wh„c House After Will.es death. Tad received a double share of h,s father's affection. He had dogs and goats and ponies, and his father was rarely able to deny him anything. The President once sent th.s message ,o Mrs Lincoln when she and Tad were absent from Washington: •TellTad the goats and father are verywell. especally the goats.-' Tad was on ft.cndly terms wuh the Pres.denfs cab.ne, and on one °" J" Se^V of War Stanton comm.ss.oned h,m a hcutenan, ,n the Unued States army. The proud V°-g°ffi"r prompt y secured muskets and dr.lled the servants ,n the Wh„e House in .he manual of arms. The above cu, .s reproduced through the courtesy of Mr W. C, Crane. New York cty. THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS TOURSCORE and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now v^e are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here ; but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain ; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 8 '^aiP^ ^At y/jHyy^^-'f(j^^>'^^ The original of this pardon of a Union soldier for absence from his regiment, which is in Lincoln's handwriting, is exhibited in the Bureau of Military Statistics of the Adiutant General's office in the Capitol at Albany, The bearer of the pardon returned to the service and this paper was found upon his dead body after the Battle of Five Forks. LINCOLN, THE POLITICIAN J- Lincoln's character was many sided. In any study of his life it must not be overlooked that he was at all times a shrewd and skilful politician. Many of his letters reveal this. The following letter is a typical one : Confidential Springfield, Illinois, May 25, 1849 Hon. E. Embree. Dear Sir : 1 am about to ask a favor of you — one which 1 hope will not cost you much. 1 understand the General Land Office is about to be given to Illinois, and that Mr Ewing desires Justin Butterfield, of Chicago, to be the man. 1 give you my word, the appointment of Mr Butterfield will be an egregious political blunder, it will give offense to the whole Whig party here, and be worse than a dead loss to the administration of so much of its patronage. Now, if you can consci' entiously do so, I wish you to write General Taylor at once, saying that either 1, or the man I recommend, should in your opinion be appointed to that office, if any one from Illinois shall be. 1 restrict my request to Illinois because you may have a man from your own State, and I do not ask to interfere with that. Your friend as ever A. LINCOLN J' LINCOLN'S DEFINITION OF EQUALITY T THINK the authors of that notable instrument (the Declaration of Independence) intended to include all men, but they did not intend to declare all men equal in all respects. They did not mean to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity. They defined with tolerable distinctness in what respects they did consider all men created equal — equal with "certain inalien' able rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. From a speech at Springfield, Illinois, on June 26, iSjj 10 Ml 2-5 i J- o J|i •a 5 "O if in — o c -^ 5 2 o c o ^j: o o H O „S - -£ >.c-5 o tJ- o o Q. w 1- ^ C^ o t o* X -g ~rt ui [^ OQ "D C ^ a ^ s 1 -o rt o >. LU O ^ C CQ ^ ~~ o ul -D O-^ ^;5 1 3 c 'o < c '5 a 1 rt i « oo -c e a " o o c c lil $ >, 3i c 3 > -3 — 11 r, ./ -r-'-v", :/ f'7'A<-^ oC (4 iP^i ji-tJ-> ii-r j*-^ i^ /t^-i^ /■'3'i»^ Jul:?.'l v'Mi.tL-^^^ .^.v^- /:->,/ tfiji.xj'^ M^A-t ^-Z^-^^ /^'i^nlZij U'n.u^/ l^uZi CfUj^j C^^^a~ The original draft of the First Emancipation Proclamation reproduced here was presented by the President to the Albany Army Relief Bazaar on January 4. 1864 and was sold by the bazaar in February 1864 to Gerrit Smith for $1100. Mr Smith presented it to the United States Sanitary Commission. '" '<>o' bv action of the Legislature of the State of New York, it was purchased from the Commission for J 1 000 and ordered to be deposited in the State Library where it is now. The body of the Proclamation is 12 i ^W^ ^TM Cc'^iX^t cr-jT-^fl-^ (LU'UM'^U J^^^\ C'jyr ,'^/»^>.N^C-> C.^/-':-!^ in Lincoln's own handwriimg. some pcnclcd addmons in the hand of the becreiary of Slate .^'^d the fortyal be.,nnm8 and end.ng ,n the hand of the Chief Clerk. The document was first transmitted from Washington to "Albany wiih a letter signed by Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary of State and addressed to Mrs Emily W. Barnes of Albany. The second proclamation actually freeing the slaves was burned in the great Chicago fire of 1 87 1 . 13 A/^^.:X /ii-^C y, ,,,, /:/:^ ^^^, ^^,.. /;:^-._' ^a.rK B-„.~a II, dafur',ljM*L'' '""*" """■'"'- -'*'■" "»■' »'•' ^'"''l '"kt 'flf'l « and afui il» pa*a_re »-i-'>~-j ^ 1,^ / / / /■ Ixj.liliv.n-i ,„,, ori„ .;„,. Hr ■„; ,""",'"■ '"'" ""y "'" :■ >il'"l<-. slwil r'^lin .if lj...||ig .lniu;,l,!,'| (,',',',a''|| ,''' "!'.■"■>' •'"'i r"-''s-)n lo Uu- . 14 LU C c a: o oo D O jC O o c 19 LINCOLN'S KINDNESS TO A LITTLE GIRL TN the autumn of 1 860, a little girl living at Westfield, N. Y., by the name of Grace Bedell, wrote a letter to President Elect Lincoln at Springfield, Illinois, telling him how old she was, where she lived, and that she thought he v^/ould make a good President but that he would be better looking if he would let his whiskers grow. She also suggested that he might have his little girl answer her letter if he did not have time to do it himself. In a few days she got this reply : Springfield, Illinois, October 19, I860 Miss Grace Bedell. My dear little Miss: Your very agreeable letter of the 15th is received. I regret the necessity of saying I have no daughter. 1 have three sons — one seventeen, one nine, and one seven years of age. They, with their mother, constitute my whole family. As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a silly piece of affectation if I were to begin it now ? Your very sincere well-wisher, A. LINCOLN In February 1861 when Lincoln was on his way to Washington to be inaugurated, he stopped at the principal cities along the way, in order that he might speak upon the questions uppermost in the minds of the people. When the train left Cleveland, Ohio, Mr Patterson of Westfield, N. Y. was invited into Lincoln's car, and Lincoln asked him if he knew any one living at Westfield by the name of Bedell and then told of his correspondence \^/ith Grace. When the train reached Westfield, Lincoln spoke a few words from the platform to the people and then said he would like to see Grace Bedell if she were there. The little girl came forward and Lincoln stepped down from the car and kissed her and said : " You see, Grace, I have let my v^hiskers grow for you." A clergyman, calling at the White House, in speaking of the war said to the President, " I hope the Lord is on our side." "I am not at all concerned about that," replied Lincoln, "for I know that the Lord is always on the side of the rigJit. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side." 20 Lincoln's Springfield residence THE FAREWELL ADDRESS AT SPRINGFIELD mY Friends : No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I o\A/e everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I can not succeed. NA^ith that assistance, I can not fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, 1 bid you an affectionate f aire well. 21 AN EDITORIAL IN THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE APRIL 14, 1865 ^ r Tho path of Pcaco opens pleaFantiy before us. There may be thorns iu the way as ttg advance, obstacles to be removed, pitfalls and snares to be avoided, but -^o look bask to tho dread road vre have traveled for four long and weary and painfnl years, and the road before its smiles only Trith Sujamer sunshine. It u natural for man to indulge in hope, and hope ia not alvfnys illusive. That the war ie over is a mighty fa we liccept tho future with a tbo'^'-^a-i'ess that needp no abati.-cuu.ut, wii;h a )ny that shou.ld be dimmed ^ith tio gloomy antici- pations. There are ships that will encounter the toughest storms and rot to pieces in tho calms that succeed them. But ours is not one ot these. The storra oaught us with our rigging unbraced, our sails il&ppii.g, our decka in disorder, ouxr yards anmaimed, our rudder ncKhipped, A ship put in| order to cncouEte? penl asiid such multiplied! dangers and that then rode out the tempest is | too stanch and too weli-coadifioued to fear! any wind that blows or any ir.-'Vcll it can up-i heave. With flag and pennant streaming gaily' out upon the br^ r-z3 stio talres a new departure upon a smiiiiig sta. It is a moment only Icr rejoicing. The houi-H: of despondciicv — h/vw TKan^ iro tiavt) passpd through !—tiie fears that courage, or stifjitrMi, or reaoui-ccs might fail us, have passed away. The good fight has been fought; the Right lias ^ Lriumphcd. A\'e are a Nation, no longer divided agamsi itself, but one, mdivisible, uaited, Free. The darknes.s, the gloom, the doubts, the fears, have gone forever, and the hearts of all the -people sing together for jny. Even ihcm that are striekea with a son-ow that can never be forgo.-eK, sniirun with bcreavcmentB lor which thera can be nc eartbly cure—even these will rejoicf- with a tsaderer joy inasmuch as tho gifts th;;j have laid upon the coiuitry't a] tar arc above ail price. j Tho war i? o'-er; T.be houso k to' be set ^n omer, h v t:,}; c;riso cf d-^nrrler exists no' Ioj^j-^'' ■'^h::-;i rfce r-eck ITf, President hn.3 issucc5. j^^ -, '"'"«-f.tr;at;on& giving notice i> the -^-orld tlf'i "^'^ ere Kot novr a ills; T,:::-- • :• ,- V- '' "^'' :' '. 'ijeD&tions a^:o to vi.'\ ' . . . I , • • . , '-'Slr, •'ind -cannct 1-; i^ur .!::; a. ■ ,. ■.■.:, /.'c-day we pubiii>h an order " ;: ' p ■ itmenti that the drp.rt and rio.'. >: a-: "i.uj!j,(^^ that no more arms ai.. ■. ivj aio to be purchased; that the expcu.^^s ■•>f t'le ^riiiitary eBtablisSanent are to be redueec'.j VcM milit'iy restiictious upon trade tind <^o!T«ryiero6 Me to be removed; that the Gov? ■ ' sViit, no !ong6>' needs to call upi'C. '■' ^ i.'T ) w.u au.a mr.ans to carry on . /> the aat03 of tho temple are swingkg .y,\ v,heir Jxingcs, and will close presently, firmly an.d 8i;e'.r;-iy ' The dispcnsa- tior^ k over ; the ae-:s' er.t begTi.it! The throes, tho pams, the toitu ■ ' '''•1; are finished. A ■new world is boni; .. ~ i of Peace rises iu ppl^nclor to eenc abroad over tho land its rays of warmth and light! Never befcro had nation 80 much cause for devout Thanksgiving; never before had a people so much reason for unre- strained congratulation and the very extriiva- gafice of joy. 22 FROM THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE APRIL 15, 1865 J- IHIGKLY IMPORTANT l! The rresident Shot! Secretary £»ewaici attacked. FIEST DISF-i^TCH, To the Asfoclated Presa. ' ■Washington. Friday, ^.p~ii 14, 11365. rho President was shot in ft theater to-night, and perhaps mortally "wounded, SECOND DISPATCH. To Editors: Out Washington a^nt orders | the dispatch ahont the President "stopped." Nothing is said ahont the trcth or falsity of tho| dispatch. THIRD DISPATCH. Special DUpatch to The K. Y. Tribnne. The President was just shot at Ford's Theater. The ball entered his neck. It i« not kno-K-n whether the wound is mortal Intense excitement FOURTH DISPATCH. Special Dispatch to The N. Y. Ttibime. The President expired at a quarter to twclV3.| FIFTH DISPATCH. To the Auociatea rea*. ■Washikotox, April 15 — 12:30 a. m. The President was shot in a theater to-night, and is perhaps mortally wounded. The President is not expected to live through the night. He was shot at a theater. Secretary Seward was also assassinated. No arteries were cut. Particulars soon. bixtti dispatch. Special DUpatch to The N. Y. Tribune. WASiiiXGTON, Friday, April 14, 1865. Like a clap of thunder out of clear sky j spread the announcement that PreUdent | Wo give the above dispatches in the order ing Ijwliich they reached us, the first having been| [received a little before midnight, fur wcS Ikuow that every line, every lelterW will be read with tho intenscst intercst.|| la the sudden shock of a calami tyu so appalling we can do little else tlian givey such details of the murder of tho President as^ have reached us. Sudden death is always over- whelming; assassination of the humblest ofj men is alwi^ys frightfully startling; when thej head of thirty millions of people is hurried, linto eternity by the hand of a murderer — I 'that head a man so good, so wise, so nobleS as Abraham Lincoln, the Chief Magistrate off |a nation in the condition of ours at this mo-i ment,— the sorrow and tho shock are loo greatTori |many words. There are none in all this broadS land to-day who love their country, who wishl Iwcll to their race, that will not bow down in| Iprofound grief at the event it has broughtg ^upon us. For once all party rancor -ftnllfc ibe forgotten, and no right-thinking mang fcan hear of Mi". Lincoln's death without^ lacccpting it as a national calamity. We* lean give in these its first moments,! Uno thought" of the future. God, in his inscrata-j ^ble Providence, has thus visited the Nation;] jthe future we must leave to Him. 1 Later.— The accounts are confused and con- |tradictory. Ouo dispatch announces that! ithe President died at 12i p. m. Another,! fan hour later, ettitos that he ^ is! Istill living, but dying slowly. Wei [go to press without knowing tho exact truth, E |but presimie there i s not the slightest ground^ 'surio'.io'.y wouudotl, but were not KUR-a. iJuti 2 there can be little hope that the Secretary ca: rally with this additional and frightful wound. 23 Ford's theater, where Lincoln was assassinated THE DEATH OF LINCOLN ^ Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare. Gentle and merciful and just I Who, in the fear of God, didst bear The sword of power, a nation's trust ! Thy task is done ; the bond are free : \A^e bear thee to an honored grave. Whose proudest monument shall be The broken fetters of the slave. In sorrow by thy bier we stand. Amid the awe that hushes all. And speak the anguish of a land That shook with horror at thy falL Pure was thy life ; its bloody close Hath placed thee with the sons of light. Among the noble host of those Who perished in the cause of Right. William Cullen Bryant 24 Copyright 1900 by Uutiuit I'liulutcraphic Co. House opposite Ford's theater, in which Lincoln died With malice toward none ; with charity for all ; with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations. 25 ABRAHAM LINCOLN A select reading list J- Annotations quoted and adapted from: A. L. A. Booklist; New York State Library Besi Books; A. L. A. Catalog 1904; Mc Curdy and Coulter's Bibliography of Holidays. Works Lincoln, Abraham. Speeches. (See Schurz, Carl. Abraham Lincoln. Riverside lit. ser. no. 133^ 132, p.37'88) First inaugural address, March 4, 1861. (See Johnston, Alexander, ed. Represent- ative American orations. N.Y. 1888. V.3, p. 14 l'63) Gettysburg address. (See Johnston, Alexander, ed. Representative American orations. N.Y. 1888. v.3, p.243'44) Second inaugural address, March 4, 1865. (See Johnston, Alexander, ed. Repre- sentative American orations. N.Y. 1888. v.3, p. 245-48) BiographitS Binns, H. B. Abraham Lincoln. 379 p. D. N.Y. 1907. Dutton, $1.50. (Temple biographies) A valuable presentation, by an Englishman, of the life and character of the man ; not a history of America during his time. Hapgood, Norman. Abraham Lincoln, the man of the people. 450 p. D. N.Y. 1899. Macmillan, $2. Attempts to portray the man with absolute honesty, setting forth faults and shortcomings together with fine and strong characteristics. Morse, J. T. jr. Abraham Lincoln. 2 v. D. Boston, 1895. Houghton, $2.50. (American statesmen) Best brief life of Lincoln. Nicolay, John G. A short life of Abraham Lincoln. 578 p. O. N.Y. 1902. Century, $2.40. Condensed from Nicolay &■ Hay's Abraham Lincoln, a history in 10 volumes. Rothschild, Alonzo. Lincoln, master of men; a study in character. 531 p. O. Bost. 1906. Houghton, $3. Interesting and brilliant study from a point of view heretofore little emphasized. Tarbell, 1. M. & Davis, J. Mc C. The early life of Abraham Lincoln. 240 p. O. N.Y. 1896. McClure, $1. Trustworthy, sympathetic account, with good illustrations. Biographies for younger readers Brooks, Noah. Abraham Lincoln; a biography for young people. 476 p. D. N.Y. 1888. Putnam, $1.75. (Boys' and girls' lib. of American biography, v.3) Coffin, C. C. Abraham Lincoln. 542 p. O. N.Y. 1893. Harper, $3. Strong points are its readableness, its happy selection of matter likely to be of general interest and the numerous good illustrations. Morgan, James. Abraham Lincoln, the boy and the man. 435 p. D. N.Y. 1908. Macmillan, $1.50. Straightforward, simple story of Lincoln's life, 26 Nicolay, Helen. The boy's life of Lincoln. 307 p. D. N.Y. 1906. Century, $1.50. Based upon Nicolay &• Hay's life. For upper grades. Originally published in St Nicholas, v. 33-34, Nov. 1905- Nov. 1906. Sparhawk, F. C. A life of Lincoln for boys. 328 p. D. N.Y. 1907. Crowell, 75c. Easily understood by children of 12 and older. Stoddard, W. O. The boy Lincoln. 248 p. D. N.Y. 1905. Appleton, $1.50. Poetry about Li}v:ohi Bryant, W. C. The death of Lincoln. (See his Poetical works. Household ed. 1898, P.316) Cary, Phoebe. Our good president. (See Gary, Alice &- Phoebe. Poetical works. 1891, p.309-10) Holmes, O. W. For the services in memory of Lincoln. Boston, June 1865. (See his Complete poetical works. Cambridge ed. 1895, p. 208) Howe, M. A. DeW. Memory of Lincoln. Poems selected, with an introduction. 82 p. S. Boston, 1899. Small, $1. Larcom, Lucy. Lincoln's passing bell. (See her Poetical works. 1884. p. 103) Lowell, J. R. Extract from the Commemoration ode. (See his Poetical works. House- hold ed. 1890, p. 398) Stedman, E. C. Hand of Lincoln. (See his Poems now first collected. 1897, p. 5 ; also Outlook, V.88, p 259-60, Feb. I, 1908) Stevenson, B. E. & btevenson, E. B. comp. Lincoln's birthday. (See their Days and deeds. N.Y. 1906. p. 193-98. Baker, $1) A collection of poems relating to American holidays and greai Americans : particularly useful for special day programs. Whitman, Walt. Memories of President Lincoln. (See his Leaves of grass. 1899, p.255-63) O captain I my captain I (See Stedman, E. C. American anthology. 1900, p. 23 1-32 ; also, Wiggin, K. D. &■ Smith, N. A. Golden numbers. 1903, p.323-24) I'rosc Andrews, . "I /;-5 M. R. (Shipman). Perfect tribute. 47p. D. NY. 1906. Scribner, 50c. (See also Scribner, v.40, p. 17-24, July 1906) A story about Lincoln's Gettysburg speech, charmingly written, though not historically accurate. Emerson, R. W. Remarks at the funeral service held in Concord, April 19, 1865. (See his Complete works. 1892, v. I 1, p. 307-15 ; see also Schurz, Carl. Abraham Lincoln, an essay, 1871-99, p. 77-83. Riverside lit. ser. no. 133) Lowell, J. R. Abraham Lincoln. (See his My study window. 1893, p. 150-77; see also Schurz, Carl, Abraham Lincoln. 1871-99, Riverside lit. ser. no. 133 &- 132. p 7-36) Schurz, CarL Abraham Lincoln, an essay ; the Gettysburg speech and other papers by Abraham Lincoln ; together with testimonies by Emerson, Whittier, Holmes and Lowell 98 p. D. Bost. 1871-99. Houghton, 40c. (Riverside lit. ser. no. 133 &- I 32) A collection of the most noteworthy brief tributes to Lincoln, together with his best speeches ; most useful single volume of Lincoln material for school use. Tarbell, I. M. He knew Lincoln. 40 p, D. NY. 1907. McClure. 50c. (See also American magazine, Feb. 1907) An illiterate country storekeeper talks about Lincoln in a way that gives a faithful picture and that will appeal to every kind of reader. 27 LINCOLN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY Lincoln's tomb ber of the Lower Houce of Congress CHE compiler of the Dictionary of Con^ gress in preparing that work for pub' lication in 1858 sent to Lincoln the usual request for a sketch of his life and received the following reply : "Born February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky. Education Defective. Profession a Law- yer. Have been a Captain of Volunteers in Black Hawk War. Postmaster at a very small office. Four times a member of the Illinois Legislature and was a mem- Yours, etc. A. LINCOLN LINCOLN'S MAGNANIMITY ^ UPON the second day of the decisive battle of Gettysburg President Lincoln wrote an official order as Commander in Chief to General Meade, the Union commander, directing him to intercept Lee's retreat and give him another battle. The general had been in command of the army but five or six days, and as his predecessors had been much criticized for failures, the President knew he would be cautious about risking a battle after having gained one. He sent the order by a special messenger, with a private note saying that this seemed to him to be the thing to do, but that he would leave it to the ultimate decision of the military commander on the ground. The official order was not a matter of record, and he said need not be. If Meade would undertake the movement, and it was successful, he need say nothing about it. If it failed, he could publish the order immediately. In other words : " Go ahead. Make an heroic attempt to annihilate that army in its disheartened state and before it can recross the river. If the attempt succeeds, you take the glory of it; and if it fails I will take the responsibility of it." From an addrcs: by Dr A. S. Draper, on Lincoln's birJhday, at the University of Illinois, iSgb 28 Cop.vi iglit I'.iui by Uotroit Photographic Co. Saint Gaudens statue in Lincoln Park, Chicago No grace of line or grandeur of mass ; only a chair behind the standing figure to eke out the stringiness of the legs and in a measure to build up the composition. Nor could the sculptor snatch an easy triumph through any heroic rendering of the figure, spare and elongated, in clothes uncompromisingly ordinary. But the man as he was, and just because he chanced to be the man he was, was great, and in the fearless acceptance of this fact the sculptor has seized his opportunity. The statue is planted firmly on the right foot —not every statue really stands upon its feet— the right arm held behind the back— these are the charac- teristic gestures of stability, tenacity and reflection ; while the advance of the left leg and the grip of the left hand upon the lapel of the coat bespeak the man of action. With such completeness are these complex qualities suggested and then crowned with the solemn dignity of the declined head, so aloof in impenetrable meditation, that the homely figure has a grandeur and a power of appeal which arc irresistible. Caffin, American Masters of Sculpture 29 SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS J- I am proud, my friends, to have had an opportunity to study Lincoln's life. If any of you have failed to take advantage cf that opportunity, do not let another year go by without making a thorough study of that career. It is an epitome of Americanism, It will realize all that you have dreamed of and all that you can possibly imagine. It is simply the representation of a man upon whose brow God had written the line of superiority, who never arrogated it to himself except in his great function of discharging the highest officj of government. Defeated again and again, failing to realize the ambition that was next to him — again and again he rose by sheer force of intellect and character until he came to the point where a nation's burden was put upon him, and he carried it so nobly that forever he will be to us a nation's representative of the typical American. From an address on Lincoln at Neiv York city, on February J2, igoS, by Governor Hughes It is not practicable to outline programs for the Lincoln centenary exercises in all the schools, but it is to be hoped that teachers will arouse in the pupils throughout the State new zeal in what Governor Hughes calls " a thorough study of that career." Let the story of Lincoln's life be the supplemental reading in all the grades and suggest the study of, and the writing of compositions and essays upon, such topics as Lincoln's birthplace, his schooling, his love for books, his home in Indiana, his first home in Illinois, his trip to New Orleans, his experience as clerk in a country store, his service in the Black Havv'k War, his experience in the Illinois Legislature, his study of law, his position as deputy surveyor of Sangamon county, his postmastership at New Salem, his love for Ann Rutledge, his removal to Springfield, his marriage to Mary Todd, his election to Congress, his debates v^^ith Douglas, the campaign of 1860, the inauguration in 1861, the President and his Cabinet, the Emancipation Proclamation, his experience with his generals, his second election, and his assassination. Then let one or two of the best com' positions and essays be read by the writers at the exercises. Let the Gettysburg speech and extracts from the second inaugural address be read, let familiar war songs be sung, let notable poems be repeated, and let every pupil have some part in the exercises if nothing more than to speak a sentence from Lincoln's own words. Bring into the schoolroom, wherever possible, men and women who knew Lincoln, and veterans who served under him during the Civil War. There are many people living who saw Lincoln on his memor^ able journey through New York State on his way to Washington, who looked upon his face when the sad funeral journey was made to Springfield in 1865 over almost the same route. Let the school children hear something of both occasions from actual eye witnesses. Make the exercises the occasion for adding books upon Lincoln to the library, and for hanging a picture of Lincoln in the schoolroom. Do not confine the exercises to the material in this pamphlet nor to the suggestions upon this page. Plan your exercises to meet the con- ditions in your own school. The important thing is that you plan to do sometliing to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of Lincoln's birth, and to impress upon the minds and hearts of your pupils the great lesson of his great life. 30 W60 Heroic soul, in homely garb half hid. Sincere, sagacious, melancholy, quaint, What he endured no less than what he did, Has reared his rnonurnent and crowned him saint. J. T. Trowbridge 31 r""1?^ O, ,0.. ^, bv Ui.co,n wh» h. W.S l» .e„. o.^. Now in *. po»e..ioo ^'^ ' University of Illinois of the J. B. LYON COMPANY. STATE PRINTERS, ALBANY • % ^^ *V .• .*""-*5 < o <• N?'^ c*^ * «4q. * ay •- V>' * ;^^> '.W^^: Ao^ -«^J®' 4.0*,. '.bI^j: ao^ "^mi \ ^-TrT*' ^^'»- ^^ o°^-i^5i;i*% 4^^\*;,:^^\ /•i^i;:'^ /\-i^ ' %.^^''\^^ vv!?^-/ ^o.^f.^^J" %.^i^ .\i-?k .\.A 'bV ^o^*-^-*/ ^<>*i^\/ ^^^-'Z ^..^'i^'