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Title: Lincoln centennial number
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896 Presidents
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Miniature (SiZe of the original) painted on £*£»*• at tg^™^* * JOh ^^riS-nroredb^he^HoSooen T. Lincoln. The Century Magazine Vol. LXXVII FEBRUARY, 1909 No. 4 LINCOLN THE LEADER1 BY RICHARD WATSON GILDER GREATER AND GREATER IT was not many years after the CivilWar that I first came to New York.There I met, with youths curiosity andadmiration for genius, among other liter-ary lights of the day, Edmund ClarenceStedman, who had struck out that dy-namic lyric on Ossawatomie Brown, pro-phetic of the war; who had addressed tothe President the demand for a captain,Abraham Lincoln, give us a man! —a demand which it took Lincoln so longand through so many disappointments tosatisfy; and who had written the ringingsonnet on the assassination, in which Lin-coln is described as the wThitest soul anation knew; Bayard Taylor, who hadbeen of special service to Lincoln at theimportant court of St. Petersburg; Rich-ard Grant White, who had interpretedthe Union cause in his New G

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