Private and Public Life of Abraham Lincoln

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Biography & Autobiography

Authors: Orville J. Victor In Year : 1864

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Private and Public Life of Abraham Lincoln

In Memoriam. Introduction
Chapter I. His early history and education
Chapter II. His experiences as a flatboatman
Chapter III. His removal to Illinois - Hard Experiences - Second flatboat voyage to New Orleans - He becomes known as ''honest Abe'' - Enlists as a volunteer in the Black-Hawk war - Instance of his extraordinary strength
Chapter IV. As a merchant, legislator and lawyer
Chapter V. In congress
Chapter VI. The canvass of 1854 - The great senatorial contest - Visit to Kansas and New York - The Cooper Institute speech - Beautiful incident
Chapter VII. How he became president
Chapter VIII. The secession movement - Mr. Lincoln's record - Stupendous villainy of the conspirators and imbecility of Buchanan - The ''progress'' of the President Elect from Illinois to Washington - The inauguration
Chapter IX. The war-cloud deepens and bursts
Chapter X. Subsequent events of 1861
Chapter XI. New laws, and the battle summer of 1862
Chapter XII. Events of 1863

Few men have lived in modern times whose life history is so suggestive as that of Abraham Lincoln. Not that he should have stepped from a log-cabin to the national capitol, though that fact, of itself, might challenge our liveliest interest; but that, out of the very discouraging circumstances which surrounded his years to manhood, he should have come forth with a well-stored mind, a large and humanitarian soul, and perceptions which led him unerringly forward to his high destiny — that is a result so remarkable as to render the story of his life one of the highest significance...
In the production of this work we have had before us the several biographies already well known to readers. But these were prepared for partisan purposes chiefly, they have been found lacking in the material which we most desired — the facts of his boyhood and student days, and the narrative of his first steps in public life. These we have had to gather more from men, from letters and from newspapers than from books; and if we have failed in producing such a work as we designed, it has been less from lack of data than from our neglect to properly use what was at our disposal. - Summary by Orville J. Victor from the original book