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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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Half-tone plate engraved by H, Davidson ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN i860 From an ambrotype owned by Major William H. Lambert, which is one of the twoambrotypesmadeat the request of J. HenryBrown as guides to that artist in the painting of the miniature which is the color frontispiece of this number of The Century. great heart, were shown not only in hisattitude toward those whom, — for theirown good, as he believed,—he unrelent-ingly opposed with all the forces at hiscommand ; but also toward his political op-ponents in the North, and toward those HIS MANAGEMENT OF DIVERSIPERSONALITIES As to his masterly management of thepersonalities whose followers he placatedand whose peculiarities and diverse abili-
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6)y&tt S-Aton itji T,£ oLG.Sz, ABRAHAM LINCOLN A pen portrait made by Wyatt Eaton, from photographs, for The CenturyMagazine in 1877. Engraved on wood by Timothy Cole. LINCOLN THE LEADER 493 ties he skilfully utilized for the commoncause, this part of his leadership is illus-trated by a hundred stories either true infact or typically true. Here came intoplay his sense of humor, his insight intomotive and character, in a word, his tact,along with that tolerance and that sym-pathy of which I have spoken as affecting Lincolns leadership of the irascible andfaithful Stanton was a simpler matter;here the Presidents inexhaustible patienceand his abounding sense of humor wereboth required to save the situation, thoughlooking back on the relations of thesestrong and utterly divergent personalities,one feels that the sense of humor was per- A

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