Mr. Lincoln's Existence embittered by Personal and Political Attacks 260 Rev. Robert Collyer and the Rustic Employee 261 CHAPTER XVII. PLOTS AND ASSASSINATION. Conspiracy to kidnap Mr. Buchanan 264 Second Scheme of Abduction 265 Mr. Lincoln relates the Details of a Dangerous Ride 265 A Search for Mr. Lincoln 271 Mr. Lincoln's Peril during Ceremonies of his Second Inauguration--Booth's Phenomenal Audacity 271 The Polish Exile from whom Mr. Lincoln feared Assault 273 An Impatient Letter appealing to Mr. Lincoln's Prudence 274 Mr. Lincoln's high Administrative Qualities 276 But Few Persons apprehended Danger to Mr. Lincoln 276 General Grant receives the News of the Assassination of Mr. Lincoln--A Narrow Escape 278 Last Passport written by Mr. Lincoln 280 Mr. Lincoln requested to make a Promise 280 Mr. Lincoln's Farewell to his Marshal 281 Lincoln's Last Laugh 282 Willing to concede Much to Democrats 286 Eastern Shore Maryland 287 Honesty in Massachusetts and Georgia 287 McClellan seems to be Lost 288 Battle of Antietam, Turning-point in Lincoln's Career 289 Motto for the Greenback 289 "Niggers will never be higher" 290 Lincoln in a Law Case 291 Lincoln's Views of the American or Know-Nothing Party 299 Account of Arrangement for Cooper Institute Speech 300 "Rail Splitter" 303 Temperance 305 Shrewdness 309 Religion 333 INDEX OF LETTERS. Black, Jeremiah S., 329 Briggs, Jas. A., 300 Catron, J., 330 Davis, David, xxxii, 317, 324 Doubleday, A., 326 Douglas, S. A., 319 Faulkner, Chas. J., 327 Fell, Jesse W., 11 Field, Eugene, xxxv Field, Kate, 306 Foster, Chas. H., 325 Grant, Gen., to Secy. Stanton, 252 Hanna, W. H., 317, 320, 326, 331 Harmon, O. F., 314 Hatch, O. M., 313, 316 Henderson, D. P., 331 Holt, J., 58 Hurlburt, Stephen A., 79 Kress, Jno. A., 256 Lamon, W. H., xxvi, 231, 274, 307, 333