"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." REVIEW OUTLINE THE MEXICAN WAR. CONFLICT OVER THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY. ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN HIS KENTUCKY HOME. THE LINCOLN FAMILY MOVES TO INDIANA. THE FURNITURE AND THE FOOD OF THE BACKWOODS PEOPLE. LITTLE ABE'S BUSY LIFE. HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE. BACKWOODS MAKESHIFTS. HIS SCHOOL LIFE; HIS READING HABITS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS A BOATMAN. "HONEST ABE." HIS PHYSICAL STRENGTH. HIS KINDNESS AND SYMPATHY. HE IS ELECTED TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE. THE GREAT DEBATE WITH STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS PRESIDENT. HE ISSUES THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. HIS ASSASSINATION. TO THE PUPIL 1. Explain the conflict between the North and the South over the extension of slavery. 2. Form mental pictures of the following: the "camp"; the furniture and the food of the backwoods people; and Abraham Lincoln's personal appearance. 3. What were his reading habits? 4. Imagine yourself with Lincoln when he saw the slave auction in New Orleans, and tell what you see. 5. Tell, in your own words, what you have learned of his honesty, sympathy, and kindness. 6. The greatest act of Abraham Lincoln's life was the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation. What was this? 7. What do you admire in the character of Abraham Lincoln? CHAPTER XXV Ulysses Simpson Grant and the Civil War [1822-1885] [Illustration: Ulysses S. Grant.] In tracing the leading events in the remarkable career of the martyr-President, we have had occasion to refer briefly to the causes and results of the Civil War. It was a struggle that tested the manhood quite as much as the resources of the warring sections, and each side might well be proud of the bravery and military skill displayed by its officers and soldiers. Certainly each side had among its generals some of the greatest military leaders of all time. One of these, who is by common consent regarded as the ablest general that led Northern troops in battle, was Ulysses Simpson Grant. He was born in a humble dwelling at Point Pleasant, O., in April, 1822. The year following his birth the family removed to Georgetown, O., where they lived many years. The father of Ulysses was a farmer and manufacturer of leather. The boy did not like the leather business, but was fond of the various kinds of farm work. When only seven years old he hauled all the wood which was needed in the home and at the leather factory, from a forest, a mile from the village. As he was too small to load and unload the wood, the men did that for him.