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Title: A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1897.
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: United States. President Richardson, James D. (James Daniel), 1843-1914, comp
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Publisher: New York, : Bureau of National Literature, Inc.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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tates will be acquired from themost authentic sources; because, as has been said, Each Presi-dent reviews the past, depicts the present and forecasts the futureof the nation. 3203-B Abraham Lincoln March 4, 1861, to April 15, 1868 SEE ENCYCLOPEDIC INDEX. The Encyclopedic Index is not only an index to the other volumes, not only a key thatunlocks the treasures of the entire publication, but it is in itself an alphabetically arrangedbrief history or story of the great controlling events constituting the History of the UnitedStates. Under its proper alphabetical classification the story is told of every great subjectreferred to by any of the Presidents in their official Messages, and at the end of each articlethe official utterances of the Presidents themselves are cited upon the subject, so that youmay readily turn to the page in the body of the work itself for this original information. Next to the possession of knowledge is the ability to turn at will to where knowledgeis to be found.
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£W LINCOLN Tested by the standard of many other great men, Lincoln was notgreat, but tested by the only true standard of his own achievements, hemay justly appear in history as one of the greatest American statesmen.Indeed, in some most essential attributes of greatness I doubt whetherany of our public men ever equalled him. If there are yet any intelli-gent Americans who believe that Lincoln was an innocent, rural, un-sophisticated character, it is time that they should be undeceived. Iventure the assertion, without fear of successful contradiction, thatAbraham Lincoln was the most sagacious of all the public men of hisday in either political party. He was, therefore, the master-politicianof his time. He was not a politician as the term is now commonlyapplied and understood; he knew nothing about the countless methodswhich are employed in the details of political effort; but no man knewbetter, indeed, I think no man knew so well as he did, how to summonand dispose of political abili

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