Edited by Berkeley Minor and Mary Willis Minor

Was Lincoln heroic? -- Was Lincoln a Christian? -- Lincoln's jokes and stories -- Estimates of Lincoln -- Did Lincoln ever intended that the masters be paid for their slaves -- Opposition to abolition before the war -- Secession long threatened ; Coercion never seriously thought of till 1861 -- Change of issue: star of the West -- Resistance in Congress -- Opposition in the regular army -- Opposition in the volunteer army -- Opposition to the Emancipation Proclamation -- In what proportion divided -- Attitude to England -- Despotism threatened -- Outline of the despotism -- General opposition and resistance to coercion and to emancipation -- Despotism in Maryland -- Despotism in Kentucky -- Despotism in Indiana -- Attitude of Ohio and Illinois -- Attitude of Philadelphia and New York -- Attitude of Iowa and other states -- Purpose of emancipation -- Opposition to Lincoln?s re-election -- How Lincoln got himself re-elected -- Apotheosis of Lincoln -- What this book would teach

Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography

Fish, D. Lincoln bibliography

Bound in cloth; frontispiece

Copy 2: Includes handwritten notes in pencil by Berkley Minor throughout

Copy 2 is a 232 p. ed. from different plates, same t.p

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