Not being
prophets, they were, of course, not in a position to know that the same
statements were to represent the contentions of the North upon which the
Civil War was fought out.
I am able to include, with the scholarly notes of the two lawyers, a
valuable introduction to the speech, written (as late as February, 1908)
by Judge Nott; together with certain letters which in February, 1860,
passed between him (as the representative of the Committee) and Mr.
Lincoln.
The introduction and the letters have never before been published, and
(as is the case also with the material of the notes) are now in print
only in the present volume.
I judge, therefore, that I may be doing a service to the survivors of
the generation of 1860 and also to the generations that have grown up
since the War, by utilising the occasion of the publication of my own
little monograph for the reprinting of these notes in a form for
permanent preservation and for reference on the part of students of the
history of the Republic.
G.H.P.
NEW YORK, April 2, 1909.
CONTENTS
I. THE EVOLUTION OF THE MAN
II. WORK AT THE BAR AND ENTRANCE INTO POLITICS
III. THE FIGHT AGAINST THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY
IV. LINCOLN AS PRESIDENT ORGANISES THE PEOPLE FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF
NATIONAL EXISTENCE
V.
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