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Title: Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln : by distinguished men of his time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Rice, Allen Thorndike, 1851-1889, ed
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : North American Review
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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al worth. In all the qualitiesthat go to make up character, he was a thoroughlygenuine man. His sense of justice was perfect andever present. His integrity was second only to thatof Washington, and his ambition as stainless. His BY GEORGE W. JULIAN. 65 sympathy for the unfortunate and the down-troddenearned for him the fitting title of Father Abra-ham, and made him the idol of the common people.His devotion to wife and children was as abidingand unbounded as his love of country, and his hap-piest hours in the White House were spent in thecompanionship of his little boy Tad, who used togambol about his knees. When death entered hishousehold his sorrow was so consuming that it couldonly be measured by the singular depth and intensityof his love. He was human in the best and highestsense of the word. The record of too many of ourfamous men has been marred by personal vices; butin him, were happily blended the qualities whichadorn public station and dignify private life. GEORGE W. JULIAN.
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R. E. Fenton. MY relations with President Lincoln were cor-dial. I was a member of the House ofRepresentatives when he entered upon the dutiesof President, and remained in the House untilDecember, 1864, when I resigned my seat for theoffice of Governor of New York. In the summer and fall of 1864—during thePresidential canvass—there was great anxiety inrespect to the decision of the people at the ballot-box, as well as to our varying success on thefield of arms. The war for the Union had pros-pered slowly. Determining results had not beenrealized. Its frightful proportions were more ap-parent as the days increased. Patriotic peoplebecame restless. Many of our Republican friendsthought the war was not prosecuted with sufficientvigor and wisdom. Party spirit was embittered byconflicting sympathies, and severe criticisms wereventured touching the conduct of the war. TheDemocratic party had in terms even declared it tobe a failure. To add intensity to the anxiety on 68 REMINISCENCES OF

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