[Illustration: Stephen A. Douglas] American Statesmen STANDARD LIBRARY EDITION [Illustration: _The Home of Abraham Lincoln_] * * * * * ABRAHAM LINCOLN BY JOHN T. MORSE, JR. IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. 1899 * * * * * CONTENTS I. EMANCIPATION AND POLITICS II. THE SECOND ACT OF THE MCCLELLAN DRAMA III. THE THIRD AND CLOSING ACT OF THE MCCLELLAN DRAMA IV. THE AUTUMN ELECTIONS OF 1862, AND THE PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION V. BATTLES AND SIEGES: DECEMBER, 1862-DECEMBER, 1863 VI. SUNDRIES VII. THE TURN OF THE TIDE VIII. RECONSTRUCTION IX. RENOMINATION X. MILITARY SUCCESSES, AND THE REËLECTION OF THE PRESIDENT XI. THE END COMES INTO SIGHT: THE SECOND INAUGURATION XII. EMANCIPATION COMPLETED XIII. THE FALL OF RICHMOND, AND THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN INDEX * * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS From a photograph by Brady in the Library of the State Department at Washington. Autograph from the Chamberlain collection, Boston Public Library. The vignette of Mr. Lincoln's home, corner Eighth and Jackson streets, Springfield, Ill., 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. * * * * * ABRAHAM LINCOLN * * * * * 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. So in appearance the Northern men were united, and in fact were very nearly so--for a short time.