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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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Engraved on wuud by Thomas Johnson LINCOLN THE LEADER 495 OTHER TRAITS OF LINCOLN SLEADERSHIP Let it not be omitted in the enumera-tion of the elements of Lincolns leader- and experience should show a modifica-tion or change to be proper, and that inevery case and exigency his best discretionwould be exercised according to circum-stances actually existing. Lincoln, like
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Copyright, 1891, by M. P. Rice ABRAHAM LINCOLN From an original, unretouched negative made in 1S64, at the time the President commissionedUlysses S. Grant Lieutenant-General and Commander of all the Armies of the Union. It is statedthat this negative, with one of General U. S. Grant, was made in commemoration of that event. ship that he did not disdain to learn fromexperience. In his first Inaugural, whilestating the policy of the Administrationwith regard to acts of violence against theauthority of the United States, he defi-nitely announced that the course indicatedwould be followed unless current events other great leaders and administrators,would rather be right than be consistent.His was a consistency of principle ratherthan of program. His aim was justice,and if he could not reach it by one path,he would push on by another. Special features of his leadership were LXXVII— 52

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