, is from a photograph.
SIMON CAMERON
From a photograph by Mr. Le Rue Lemer, Harrisburg, Pa.
Autograph from the Chamberlain collection, Boston Public Library.
LINCOLN SUBMITTING THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION TO HIS CABINET
From the painting by Carpenter in the Capitol at Washington.
ISAAC N. ARNOLD
From a photograph by Brady in the Library of the State Department at
Washington.
Autograph from one furnished by his daughter, Mrs. Mary A. Scudder,
Chicago, Ill.
MONTGOMERY BLAIR
From a photograph by Brady in the Library of the State Department at
Washington.
Autograph from the Chamberlain collection, Boston Public Library.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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CHAPTER I
EMANCIPATION AND POLITICS
During the spring and summer of 1861 the people of the North presented
the appearance of a great political unit. All alleged emphatically that
the question was simply of the Union, and upon this issue no Northerner
could safely differ from his neighbors. Only a few of the more
cross-grained ones among the Abolitionists were contemptuously allowed
to publish the selfishness of their morality, and to declare that they
were content to see the establishment of a great slave empire, provided
they themselves were free from the taint of connection with it. If any
others let Southern proclivities lurk in the obscure recesses of their
hearts they were too prudent to permit these perilous sentiments to
appear except in the masquerade of dismal presagings.
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