Includes index The Chicago commemoration: The unity of the nation / Hon. William J. Calhoun -- Abraham Lincoln: a man of the people / President Woodrow Wilson -- A citizen of no mean country / Hon. Frank Hamlin -- The significance of Lincoln / Hon. J.A. Macdonald -- A memory of Lincoln / Hon. Charles H. Wacker -- Abraham Lincoln of Illinois / President Edwin Erle Sparks -- The figure of an age / Hon. Stephen S. Gregory -- The great commoner / Dr. Emil G. Hirsch -- The greatest apostle of human liberty / Col. John R. Marshall -- The unfinished task / Rev. A.J. Carey -- The liberation of the Negro / Rev. J.W.E. Bowen -- Lincoln: the friend of all men / Nathan William MacChesney -- The Negro's place in national life / Hon. William J. Calhoun -- The other side of the question / Rev. A.J. Carey -- The cathedral utterance of Lincoln / Dr. Charles J. Little -- The literary side of Lincoln / Dr. Bernard J. Cigrand -- The Freeport debate / Gen. Smith D. Atkins -- Two momentous meetings / Maj.-Gen. Frederick Dent Grant -- A voice from the South / Hon. J.M. Dickinson -- Abraham Lincoln at the bar of Illinois / John T. Richards -- The evolution of the Gettysburg Address / Hon. John C. Richberg -- The merit of a mighty name / Judge W.G. Ewing -- Power in loneliness / Judge Peter Stenger Grosscup -- The Springfield commemoration: Lincoln as an orator / Hon. William J. Bryan -- Lincoln as France saw him / Jon. Jean Adrien Jusserand -- The Illinois Supreme Court commemoration: The centenary of Lincoln / Nathan William MacChesney -- Lincoln's preparation for the presidency / Justice Hand -- The Bloomington commemoration: Lincoln the statesman / Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson -- Lincoln the lawyer, and his Bloomington speeches / R.M. Benjamin -- The Peoria commemoration: Lincoln's diplomacy / Kogoro Takahira -- Lincoln, the man of the people (poem) / Edwin Markham -- The Hodgenville commemoration: A son of Kentucky / Augustus E. Wilson -- Abraham Lincoln / Hon. Theodore Roosevelt -- Lincoln and the lost cause / Hon. Luke E. Wright -- Abraham Lincoln, leader and master of men / Gen. James Grant Wilson -- The Lincoln Memorial / Hon. Joseph W. Folk -- The New York commemoration: Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Institute / Hon. Joseph Hodges Choate -- Lincoln as a labor leader / Rev. Lyman Abbott -- On the plain people / Hon. Chauncey M. Depew -- The Boston commemoration: A vision (poem) / Julia Ward Howe -- The great pacificator / Hon. John D. Long -- Lincoln: "Valiant for truth" / Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge -- The Cincinnati commemoration: Abraham Lincoln, an appreciation / Bishop William F. McDowell -- The Rochester commemoration: Lincoln, the true American / Hon. Charles Evans Hughes -- The Denver commemoration: Abraham Lincoln, the perfect ruler of men / Joseph Farrand Tuttle, Jr. -- The Washington commemoration: Lincoln and the character of American civilization / Hon. Joaquim Nabueo -- The Philadelphia commemoration: Preserver of the Union, savior of the Republic, reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln / Major William H. Lambert -- The Cornell University commemoration: Abraham Lincoln, master of time / Hon. Frank S. Black -- The Pittsburg commemoration: Lincoln, the greatest American / Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman -- The Janesville commemoration: The apostle of opportunity / Hon. George R. Peck -- An ex-slave's tribute to the emancipator / Dr. Booker T. Washington -- Lincoln and his relations with Congress / Hon. Shelby M. Cullom -- The commemoration abroad: Manchester, England -- Berlin, Germany: Lincoln's hundredth birthday (poem) / William Morris Davis ; The man for the hour / Alexander Montgomery Thackara -- Paris, France: From Washington to Lincoln / Dr. Henry van Dyke -- Rome, Italy: The American Union and Italy / Hon. Lloyd C. Griscom -- The man Lincoln (poem) / Wilbur D. Nesbit Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography Oakleaf, J. Lincoln bibliography Lincoln copy: Book, bound in boards with cloth spine; frontispiece Lincoln copy: Handwritten inscription in ink on flyleaf: To Mr. James R. Thorpe, with the cordial good wishes of Nathan William MacChesney, Estes Park, Colorado, 23rd July, 1911 1 18