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Abraham Lincoln

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Abraham Lincoln, byGeorge Haven PutnamThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no costand with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copyit, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the ProjectGutenberg License included with this eBook or online at

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www.gutenberg.netTitle: Abraham LincolnAuthor: George Haven PutnamRelease Date: March 27, 2004 [eBook #11728]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: iso-8859-1***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOKABRAHAM LINCOLN***E-text prepared by Steve Schulze and Project GutenbergDistributed ProofreadersNote: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of thisfile which includes the original illustrations. See11728-h.htm or 11728-h.zip:(http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/7/2/11728/11728-h/11728-h.or(http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/7/2/11728/11728-h.zip)ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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The People's Leader in the Struggle for National ExistenceByGEORGE HAVEN PUTNAM, LITT. D.Author of "Books and Their Makers in the Middle Ages,""The Censorship of the Church," etc.With the above is included the speech delivered by Lincolnin New York, February 27, 1860; with an introduction byCharles C. Nott, late Chief Justice of the Court of Claims,and annotations by Judge Nott and by Cephas Brainerd ofNew York Bar.1909INTRODUCTORY NOTEThe twelfth of February, 1909, was the hundredthanniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. In New York,as in other cities and towns throughout the Union, the daywas devoted to commemoration exercises, and even in theSouth, in centres like Atlanta (the capture of which in 1864had indicated the collapse of the cause of theConfederacy), representative Southerners gave theirtestimony to the life and character of the great American.

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