File:Abraham Lincoln O-50 centennial number (1909) (14778604552).jpg

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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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ecrated leader, looking outupon armies encamped and a sufferingpeople, was as stern as fate in demandingthat battle should be made, and war, withall its horrors, resolutely continued, tillright should be accomplished and eternaljustice done. Here is the true leader, asgentle and affectionate as any woman andas averse to violence, yet able to meet withunflinching spirit the unwelcome duty ofsword-bearer! THE GREAT TEST OF LINCOLNSLEADERSHIP The great test of Lincolns leadershipcame in his dealing with the fundamentalquestion of slavery as related to the com-pact of the States, the perpetuity of theLJnion, the very existence of the nation.The important part of his political careerbefore the war had to do with this com-plex question. This double problem madethe war itself, and was dominant through-out its course. As he called it, the per-plexing compound — Union and slavery,had become indeed a question not of twosides merely, but of at least four sides,even among those who were for the
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From a Brady photograph. Half-tone plate engraved by H. DavidsonABRAHAM LINCOLN IN WAR TIME

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