Caption: Booklet - Life of President Lincoln on his Birthday (1896)
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President Draper' Addn I \ I8f>() in v \va srhin>l led in«-. wit h varying r tin* stately m a n \\ h ich h a d 1 • n t hi idence of oi Y >rK s < 11 ors and most sons, William N rn*d Hem Sewa rd. The ass< Ltion of t his hoiif wit li •;i one of t h . n;i mes in t he hist* >rv f tl ic state gav it un- usual interest to all, and, in connection with <\ nts 1 whi h were then transpiring , Led it to i rl a considerable influence upon m\ childish th light. Its former occupanl was no1 ye\ a memory. II v s t i l l B gl it f o r c e in t h e p u b l i c life of t h e pi pI II was representing his gn it state in the senate > tli nation, with a wealth of scholarship and lit f • rarv culture as well as of hiflfhminded thoi h IMI couraj i , which reflected Lastin hon< ii] n himself and his people alike He was ;i coimn< \ • ml d n a 11 pad ive li ure a lx >u1 the • i pita I i h st ;i t and the halo of gl< >rj which s u n >und< 1 h t h e p r i n c i p l e s for w h i e l i he st od, the flueil \ hi sp t he i i h and t he | M .11 i \ ech( M nice of his Ktylo readily a\> i n t h e e h ; i m I >0l\H i)J m \ a w a k niu i M 11, W li' II IIM' I te |>n ntod him to tin invent > n p.i rt i Its c a n d i d a l t li< pi osidoiv \ II ud % when ill the peoph d u t mo \\t \ or tl nbli t In
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