Caption: Booklet - Life of President Lincoln on his Birthday (1896)
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true } ii !i • i | us i l don't | «e to ^ at 1 hi tim< t he p Ah \ nment. Hut when m - I shall sp ns well as 1 in H ble, I I t he pi at H ad tut in t hi nt i the 1I th t he u t h B rid t h it h his unit r\ t he i I of t he on and 1 and t all st I ions 11 c mnt i < This was hiuuilit \ which wn not assumed While it was a s< king for li tit and I r uidanc< whi was known t be sincere, b use tin his >r oi the man. it was strongly su stiv< u high purpose, w rthy of tin* r it pla to which t ui he w a s : ing and of the momentous acts which ;oon plunged the who! i -untn into the awi 1 \ s: of war. Mr, Lincoln was not an aristocrat, as the term is i tmmonly understood, and he could not be, Th was no a titiciality about him. He never prt tended to be other than he was: indeed he was careful not to appear to be other than he was. He carried his Illinois ways and his Illinois ideas with « him to the p r e s i d e n c y . W h e n he s p o k e he drew t'reely u p o n h i s I l l i n o i s e x p e r i e n c e s . Some who lived in a kind of artificial society thought at the time that he was c arse. He was not coarse. He was simply natural, unaffected and honest. Of course under the influences of his great position and his new surroundings, his Life underwent a change. As he would say. he ''bought a new coat." He avoided being ^d<\. He conformed I i the reasonable conventionalities of the place, while he ripened and grew in strength, but he never dis s( mbled. There was nothing of which he was so pr»»ud a s h i s r i g h t t o a place in t h e c r o w d , » upon the ground door <>\' the great human family; and
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