ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The True Story of a Great Life

By William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik

With An Introduction By Horace White

In Two Volumes Vol. II

1896

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

CHAPTER IX.

CHAPTER X.

CHAPTER XI.

APPENDIX.

UNPUBLISHED FAMILY LETTERS.

AN INCIDENT ON THE CIRCUIT.

LINCOLN'S FELLOW LAWYERS.

THE TRUCE WITH DOUGLAS.—TESTIMONY OF IRWIN.

THE BLOOMINGTON CONVENTION.

AN OFFICE DISCUSSION—LINCOLN'S IDEA OF WAR.

LINCOLN AND THE KNOW-NOTHINGS.

LINCOLN'S VIEWS ON THE RIGHTS OF SUFFRAGE.

THE BURIAL OF THE ASSASSIN BOOTH.

A TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN BY A COLLEAGUE AT THE BAR.

LINCOLN AT FORT MONROE.

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List of Illustrations

Lyman Trumbull

Hall of Representatives, State House, Springfield

Letter to Campbell

Lincoln Home in Springfield

Letter to Kansas Delegate

Portrait of Lincoln in 1860

Springfield Railway Station

Portraits

Ford's Theatre

The Peterson House

Statue

Lincoln Monument, Springfield

CHAPTER I.

A LAW office is a dull, dry place so far as pleasurable or interesting incidents are concerned. If one is in search of stories of fraud, deceit, cruelty, broken promises, blasted homes, there is no better place to learn them than a law office. But to the majority of persons these painful