The Men of our Time--Lincoln Foremost--The War was the Working-Man's Revolution--Abraham Lincoln's Birth and Youth-- The Books he Read--The Thirty Thousand Dollars for Tender-- The Old Stocking of Government Money--A Just Lawyer; Anecdotes --His First Candidacy and Speech--Goes to Legislature and Congress--The Seven Debates and Campaign against Douglass in 1858--Webster's and Lincoln's Language Compared--The Cooper Institute Speech--The Nomination at Chicago--Moral and Physical Courage--The Backwoodsman President and the Diplomatists--Significance of his Presidential Career-- Religious Feelings--His Kindness--"The Baby Did It"--The First Inaugural--The Second Inaugural, and other State Papers --The Conspiracy and Assassination--The Opinions of Foreign Nations on Mr. Lincoln. 11 CHAPTER II.--ULYSSES S. GRANT. A General Wanted--A Short War Expected--The Young Napoleon --God's Revenge Against Slavery--The Silent Man in Galena --"Tanning Leather"--Gen. Grant's Puritan Descent--How he Loaded the Logs--His West Point Career--Service in Mexico --Marries, and Leaves the Army--Wood-Cutting, Dunning and Leather-Selling--Enlists against the Rebellion--Missouri Campaign--Paducah Campaign--Fort Donelson Campaign--Battle of Shiloh--How Grant Lost his Temper--Vicksburg Campaign --Lincoln on Grant's "Drinking"--Chattanooga--Grant's Method of Making a Speech--Appointed Lieutenant-General-- The Richmond Campaign--"Mr. Grant is a Very Obstinate Man"-- Grant's Qualifications as a Ruler--Honesty--Generosity to Subordinates--Sound Judgment of Men--Power of Holding his Tongue--Grant's Sidewalk Platform--Talks Horse to Senator Wade--"Wants Nothing Said"--The Best Man for Next President. 111 CHAPTER III.--WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. Mr. Garrison's Birth and Parents--His Mother--Her Conversion --His Boyhood--Apprenticed to a Printer--First Anti-Slavery Address--Advice to Dr. Beecher--Benjamin Lundy--Garrison Goes to Baltimore--First Battle with Slavery--In Jail-- First Number of the Liberator--Threats and Rage from the South --The American Anti-Slavery Society--First Visit to England --The Era of Mob Violence--The Respectable Boston Mob-- Mr. Garrison's Account--Again in Jail--The Massachusetts Legislature Uncivil to the Abolitionists--Logical Vigor of the Slaveholders--Garrison's Disunionism--Denounces the Church --Liberality of the Liberator--The Southerners' own Testimony --Mr. Garrison's Bland Manners--His Steady Nerves--His use of Language--Things by their Right Names--Abolitionist "Hard Language;" Garrison's Argument on it--Protest for Woman's Rights--The Triumph of his Cause--"The Liberator" Discontinued--Second Visit to England--Letter to Mrs. Stowe. 154 CHAPTER IV.--CHARLES SUMNER.