(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. THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR