LINCOIN 
 
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 The extraordinary 
 document that relives the 
 immortal President's 
 years of crisis— 
 in words and pictures 
 
mm MIET MR. LINCOLN was 
 first presented by the National 
 Broadcasting Company on February 11, 
 1959, it was called *'a television 
 masterpiece" by the New York Herald 
 Tribune, a judgment echoed by press 
 and public across the country. The 
 fusing of authentic photographs, 
 prints, and drawings from Lincoln's 
 time with a narration which ''reached 
 into the heart of Lincoln*' (to quote 
 another critic) provided millions 
 with a memorable and moving 
 theatrical experience. 
 This book has been created by Ridge 
 Press from the original Project 
 Twenty television program, produced 
 by Donald B. Hyatt. 
 
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MEET MR. LINCOLN 
 
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LINCOLN ROOM 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 
 LIBRARY 
 
 MEMORIAL 
 
 the Class of 1901 
 
 founded by 
 
 HARLAN HOYT HORNER 
 
 and 
 
 HENRIETTA CALHOUN HORNER 
 
Digitized by the Internet Archive 
 
 in 2012 with funding from 
 
 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
 
 http://archive.org/details/meetnnrlincolnOOhans 
 
A Ridge Press Book / Golden Press , New York 
 
 MEET 
 
 MR. 
 LINCOLN 
 
 By Richard Hanser and Donald B. Hyatt 
 
Project Twenty staff for 
 -MEET MR. LINCOLN: 
 
 Producer and Director: DONALD B. HYATT 
 
 Script: RICHARD HANSER 
 
 Assistant Producer: ROBERT GARTHWAITE 
 
 Editor: SILVIO D'ALISERA 
 
 Assistant Editor: JOHN CHRISTOPHEL 
 
 Research:DANIEL W.JONES, 
 
 RHODA GRADY, CHARLES OSBORN 
 .Music: ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT 
 Narration: ALEXANDER SCOURBY 
 
 SOURCES: 
 
 Ansco (Brady CoHection) : 90 left. 
 
 Boston Public Library: 31 far right, 6G. 
 
 Carpenter painting, U.S. Capitol: 69. 
 
 Chicago Historical Society: cover, 18 bottom, 22, 
 35, 40, 81 right, 121. 
 
 Dexter, Mrs. Byron: 34 top, 51, 104. 
 
 Jolin Hay Library, Brown University: 127, 128-129, 131. 
 
 Jones, Daniel W. : 10-17, 18 top, 19, CO bottom, 
 123, 124-125. 
 
 Knox College: 24, 25. 
 
 Laughlin, Clarence J.: 32-33. 
 
 Library of Congress: 12-13, 23 left, 28-29, 30-31, 
 38-39, 41, 49 bottom, 50 top, 53 top left & right, 
 57, 65 bottom, 74, 76-77, 83, 90 rigiit, 91, 92-93, 94-95, 
 97, 100-101, 104-105, 109 (Brady Handy Collection), 
 110-111, 113, 114-115, 116-117, 120, 120-121. 
 
 Lincoln Collection of Boston University: 23 right. 
 
 Lincoln National Life Foundation: 6-7, 21, 80, 84 top. 
 
 Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Boston: 46-47. 
 
 Museum of the City of New York: 84 bottom, 112, 126, 132. 
 
 National Archives: 4-5, 15, 34 bottom, 37, 42-43, 48-49, 
 52 bottom, 53 bottom left & right, 54-55, 56, 60 top, 
 60-61, 62-63, 65 top, 67 left, 70-71, 72-73 bottom, 75, 
 78-79, 81 left, 82-83, 96, 102-103, 106-107, 122. 
 
 National Park Service: 58-59, 61 bottom, 73. 
 
 New York Historical Society: 8-9, 9, 10-11 top, 
 67 right, 85, 86 top left, 107, 118-119. 
 
 New York Public Library: 36, 44, 48, 86 bottom left, 
 86 right, 87, 89. 
 
 Public Library of Cincinnati: 10-11 bottom. 
 
 Rhode Island Historical Society: 14. 
 
 St. Louis Mercantile Society: 99. 
 
 Valentine Museum (Cook Collection) : 52 top, G4. 
 
 Virginia State Library: 50 bottom. 
 
 Af^" Ridge Press: 
 Editor in chief : Jerry Mason 
 Editor: Adolph Suehsdorf 
 Art Director: Albert A. Squillace 
 Art Associate: Albert Kamp 
 
 Copyright © 1960 by the National 
 Broadcasting Company, Inc., 30 Rockefeller 
 Plaza, New York 20, New York. 
 
 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 59-15868 
 
 Prepared and produced by The 
 Ridge Press, Inc. 
 Printed in the United States of 
 America by Western Printing 
 and Lithographing Company. 
 Published by Golden Press, Inc., 
 Rockefeller Center, New York 20, 
 New York. 
 
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FOREWORD t3i^nm ^.;.ccX^ '^--^ 
 
 MEET MR. LINCOLN was conceived as a dramatic essay about 
 a man whose simplicity of being was the spirit of his greatness. 
 In our time, it is a greatness that travels the world, a spirit 
 that lives in distant places. Yet, in America, something has 
 happened to the Lincoln legend, something has passed away. 
 A kind of pleasant myth has sapped the strength of an exciting 
 reality. Perhaps it is because we in America, in childlike 
 innocence, have too eagerly accepted Lincoln in godlike terms, 
 or perhaps it is because, in adult pride, we have ignored the 
 person in order to create a proud image on a towering pedestal, 
 obscured in wispy clouds of blind allegiance. Whatever— the 
 beauty of Lincoln has too often been colored by the cloak of 
 complexity. 
 
 To be sure, Lincoln was a man of wondrous depth, of warm love 
 and craggy manner, of slow, brilliant reasoning and quick, 
 hand-hewn philosophy, of softness and hardness, and in appearance 
 a paradox, a beautiful ugliness that was poetry in expression. 
 
 He was a man loved and hated for the same thing at the same time. 
 He was all the things that men are, and if there is any mystery 
 about the man Lincoln, it is because he was infinitely human. 
 That was his greatness and his genius, created from a thousand 
 complexities, but molded into a oneness of purpose. 
 
 Our story is about that oneness. It is a story that is told with 
 a freshness and simplicity that captures the essence of Lincoln. 
 And by a blending of pictures and words, the story is told in a 
 new and dramatic manner, with a sweep of history such as no text 
 or picture book alone could do. 
 
 MEET MR. LINCOLN was televised by the National Broadcasting 
 Company— and sponsored by the Lincoln National Life Insurance 
 Company— as a Project Twenty event on the 150th anniversary of 
 Lincoln's birth. Richard Hanser's text, which has been described 
 as a kind of "graphic poetry," draws largely upon Lincoln's own 
 words. The pictures, selected by Daniel W. Jones and his 
 assistants from 25,000 photographs, daguerreotypes, and prints, 
 were gathered from archives and private collections throughout 
 the country. They are a unique heritage of America, illuminating 
 powerfully human moments of history that no words could describe. 
 We can thank Matthew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Alexander Hesler, 
 and many unknowns for these riches. 
 
 On the following pages, MEET MR. LINCOLN is faithfully 
 preserved for leisurely study; through the highlighting of 
 historical events that are the backdrop for the drama of Lincoln, 
 we feel that you will truly MEET MR. LINCOLN. 
 
 Donald B. Hyatt 
 
 Producer-director, MEET MR. LINCOLN 
 

 
 
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 more retreat. Black bulletins pour into the 
 
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 broods upon their larger meanings. 
 
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To Lincoln, the enduring Union of a free 
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 a testing whether his countrymen shall 
 ''nobly save, or meanly lose'' this last, best hope- 
 democracy's future, America's future. ''The dogmas of 
 the quiet past," he says, "are inadequate 
 to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high 
 with difficulty, and we must rise with the 
 occasion. As our case is new, so we must think 
 and act anew. We must disenthrall 
 ourselves, and then we shall save our country." 
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 the war a higher significance, a deeper purpose. 
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 Cabinet the draft of an Emancipation Proclamation. 
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 by freeing the slaves. But the Cabinet cautions, 
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 They have builded Him an altar 
 in the evening dews and damps; 
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 of a hundred circling camps . . . 
 
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 of Vicksburg and Gettysburg— when he says: 
 
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 said that the 'Heavens are hung in black.' " 
 
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19th, 1863. 
 
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 soldiers. North and South, who fell here 
 
 last July; parades and speeches now, where once 
 
 the Union line broke Pickett's Charge. 
 
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 oratory of the greatest speaker of his day, 
 
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 these dead shall not have died in vain— that 
 
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 political talk is that Lincoln 
 
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 drags on, the casualties multiply. 
 
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 With the South still undefeated, 
 the North itself falls prey to rampant 
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 as in the savage New York 
 draft riots of the year before. 
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 and Abraham Lincoln is vilified 
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 the soldiers win him timely victories; 
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 he so deeply yearns for: peace and Union. 
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 but he has found the man to lead 
 them: Ulysses S. Grant, who conquered 
 Vicksburg and split the Confederacy. 
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 Richmond itself. 
 
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