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APPENDIX D

There are three descriptions of Lincoln's appearance during the first months of his stay in Washington which seem worth quoting at greater length than was advisable in the text.

Mr Edward Dicey wrote to The Spectator that when you have called the President "honest Abe Lincoln,” you have "said all that can be said in his favour." He represents him as the English stock caricature of the typical Yankee and proceeds "To say that he is ugly is nothing; to add that his figure is grotesque, is to convey no adequate impression. Fancy a man 6 feet high and thin, out of proportion, with long, bony arms and legs, which, somehow, seem to be always in the way, with large rugged hands which grasp you like a vice when shaking yours, with a long scraggy neck, and a chest to narrow for the great arms hanging by his side; add to this figure, a head, cocoanut shaped and somewhat too small for such a stature, covered with rough uncombed and uncombable lank dark hair, that stands out in every direction at once; a face furrowed, wrinkled and indented as tho' it had been scarred by vitriol; a high narrow forehead, and sunk deep beneath busby eyebrows, two bright, somewhat dreamy eyes, that seemed to gaze through you without looking at you; a few irregular blotches of black, bristly hair in the place where beard and whiskers ought to grow; a close set, thin lipped stern mouth, with two rows of large white teeth; and a nose and ears, which have been taken by mistake from a head of twice the size. Clothe this figure, then, in a long, tight, badly fitting suit of black, creased, soiled and puckered up at every salient point of the figureand every point of this figure is salient-put on large, illfitting boots, gloves to long for the long bony fingers, and a fluffy hat, covered to the top with dusty, puffy crape; and then add to all this an air of strength, physical as well as moral, and a strange look of dignity coupled with all this grotesqueness, and you will have the impression left upon me by Abraham Lincoln. You would never say he was a

gentleman. You would still less say he was not one there are men to whom the epithet appears utterly incongruous and of such the President is one. Still there is about him a complete lack of pretension, and an evident desire to be courteous to everybody, which is the essence if not the outward form of high-breeding. There is a softness too, about his smile, and a sparkle of dry humour about his eye, which redeem the expression of his face and remind one more of the late Dr Arnold, as a child's recollection recalls him to me, than any other face I can call to memory. . . . He is a humourist, not a buffoon . . .”—Six months in the Federal States. E. Dicey. 2 vols., 1863.

The able correspondent of the Times thus described his first impression:

"There entered, with a shambling, loose, irregular, almost unsteady gait, a tall, lank, lean man, considerably over six feet in height, with stooping shoulders, long, pendulous arms, terminating in hands of extraordinary dimensions, which, however, were far exceeded in proportion by his feet. He was dressed in an ill-fitting, wrinkled suit of black, which put one in mind of an undertaker's uniform at a funeral; round his neck a rope of black silk was knotted in a large bulb, with flying ends projecting beyond the collar of his coat; his turned-down shirt-collar disclosed a sinewy muscular yellow neck, and above that, nestling in a great black mass of hair, bristling and compact like a mass of mourning pins, rose the strange quaint face and head, covered with its thatch of wild republican hair, of President Lincoln. The impression produced by the size of his extremities, and by his flapping and wide-projecting ears, may be removed by the appearance of kindliness, sagacity, and the awkward bonhomie of his face; the mouth is absolutely prodigious; the lips, straggling and extending almost from one line of black beard to the other, are only kept in order by two deep furrows from the nostril to the chin; the nose itself—a prominent organ-stands out from the face with an inquiring, anxious air, as though it were sniffing for some good thing in the

wind; the eyes, dark, full, and deeply set, are penetrating but full of an expression which almost amounts to tenderness ; and above them projects the shaggy brow, running into the small hard frontal space, the development of which can scarcely be estimated accurately, owing to the irregular flocks of thick hair carelessly brushed across it. One would say that, although the mouth was made to enjoy a joke, it could also utter the severest sentence which the head could dictate, but that Mr Lincoln would be ever more willing to temper justice with mercy, and to enjoy what he considers the amenities of life, than to take a harsh view of men's nature and of the world, and to estimate things in an ascetic or puritan spirit . . ."—My Diary North and South (under date of 27th Mar. 1861), by SIR W. H. RUSSELL.

An able American writer and politician of Southern family in company with the Secretary of War and ex-Governor Walker of Kansas, visited the President in April 1861, and wrote that Lincoln was "not ungainly in either manner or attitude. . . . As he leaned back in his chair he had an air of unstudied ease, a kind of careless dignity, that well became his station; and yet there was not a trace of selfconsciousness about him. He seemed. . . entirely engrossed in the subject under discussion. He had a large head, covered with coarse dark hair that was thrown carelessly back from a spacious forehead. His features also were large and prominent, the nose heavy and somewhat Roman, the cheeks thin and furrowed, the skin bronzed, the lips full, the mouth wide, but played about by a smile that was very winning. At my first glance he impressed me as a very homely man, for his features were ill assorted and none of them were perfect, but this was before I had seen him smile, or met the glance of his deep-set, dark gray eye,—the deepest, saddest, and yet kindliest eye I had ever seen in a human being."-Personal Recollections of A. L. etc., by J. R. GILMORE, 1899.

INDEX

"ABRAHAM I.," 286

Abstraction, L.'s, 129, 336
Abolition Movement, L. and the, 67,
92-6, 135, 145, 151, 156, 158, 170,
171, 176, 187, 195, 257, 262, 264,
271, 273, 277, 323; and Secession,
201; its position defined, 171, 187
Abolitionists and Frémont, 241-2
Action, L. and the spirit of, 357
Adams, C. F., 275, 280
Adams, J. Q., 20, 23, 110, 203-4;
qu. 136

Addresses and Papers, L.'s, qu. 65,
85-8, 132-4, 146-8, 159-160, 161, 162,
164-5, 169, 172-3, 175, 180, 185,
186-7, 189, 207-8, 209, 210, 214-5,
237-9, 258, 259-60, 267, 269, 270-2,
277, 286, 296-7, 299, 300, 312, 316,
317-9, 328-31, 334-5
Adullam, a cave of, 308
Advisers, L.'s, 252
Alabama, the, 275-6, 280

Albert, Prince, 246, 248

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Washington (1848), 127-8, 158-9,
208 n., 223-6, 287 n., 336-7, 360,
366-8

Arbitration, L. favours, 247-8
Argyll, Duke of, 245, 276
Armstrong, Jack, 125

Army, the Federal, 235, 288 n.
Arnold, L. compared with Dr, 367
Arnold, J. N., qu. 333
Ascetic, L. not an, 368
Assassination of L., 211, 312
Ashley, Mr, 292
Atlanta taken, 313

Autobiography, L.'s, 359-60
Awkwardness, L.'s, 224-6; see appear-

ance.

BACON, Lord, 295 n.
Baker, Ed., 212
Baldwin, John, 18 n.

Baltimore, L. in, 211, 317; riots,
232-3, 289

Bancroft, George, 259

Bank-presidents, L. and the, 293
Bargains, L. and political, 205
Bates, Ed., 207, 348 n.
Battles of war, 239
Beck, Mrs, 88
Beesly, Prof., 278
Bell, John, 197-8

Berry & Lincoln's store, 43-5; debt,
45, 46, 49, 131

Berry, Lucy, 10

Bible, L. and the, 19, 77, 294, 308,
319-20, 330, 345, 346, 351

Bitterness towards Douglas, L.'s, 177
Black Hawk War, L. and the, 40-3,
80, 106, 107, 228
Blair, M., 325, 326
Bloomington, L.'s speech at, 158,
160
Bohemianism, L.'s, 117
Books, L.'s, 18, 19, 44, 294-5
Boone, Daniel, 6, 42
Boonville, Court-house at, 21
Booth, J. W., 312, 335, 338

Ant, L. on the life of the, 16
Antietam, battle of, 266, 267, 291
Anti-slavery movement in America,
92-6; in Indiana, 22; L. impressed
by, 109; L.'s position towards, 98;
resolutions, L.'s, 92; see abolition,
slavery, emancipation.
Appearance, L.'s, 19, 108, 111; in

369

Border States and the war, 251, 256,

257, 259-60

Boys, L. and his, 128
Breckinridge, J. C., 197-8
Breckinridge, Mr, 21

Bright, John, 3, 245, 276, 278, 281-3,
348-9; qu. 243, 247, 279, 289
Britton, Isaac, 116 n.
Brooks, Phillips, qu., 353
Brougham, Lord, 206
Brown, John, L. on, 186-7
Browning, Letter to Mrs O. H., 362-5
Bryant, W. C., and L., 188
Buchanan, James, 162-3, 201, 209,
216, 228; and Douglas, 166-7, 172,
179; Lincoln and, 170, 212
Buffalo, L. at, 208

Bull's Run, Battle of, first, 239, 245;
second, 266

Burns, Robert, L.'s love for, 2, 44
Byron, Lord, 295 n.

CABINET, L,'s, 205-6, 207
Caesar, 67

Calhoun, John, 45-6, 145

Calhoun, J. C., 45, 92, 93, 112, 113,
139

Cameron, Simon, 110, 205, 206, 235,
240, 368

Canada, 229, 246, 310
Candour, L.'s, 121-3, 127
Cant, L. and, 350

Capital becoming congested in U.S.,
333; see Labour.

Captain of Volunteers, L. as, 40-3
Carpenter, Edward, qu. 302

Carpenter, F. B., qu. 292, 346, 347;
344

Cass, Lewis, 106, 107, 139

Cecil, Lord R., 281

Chambers, R., 295 n.
Channing, Dr, 195 n.
Character of L., 355, 356-8
Characteristics of L., 115, 6, 7, 294;
see abstraction, ambition, anger,
bitterness, child-likeness, cleanliness,
constitutionalist, courage, economy,
emotionality, faults, grotesque,
honesty, humour, humility, irre-
sponsibility, kindness, laughter,
leisure, malice, melancholy, method,
mirth, mistakes, moods, occult,
opportunism, optimism, originator,
party, passion, pathos, patience, per-
sonality, physique, poise, politician,

prophetic, radicalism, religion,
reserve, ridiculous, satirical, seer,
self-consciousness, self-control,
silence, simplicity, slowness, stories,
strength, sympathy, temperance,
tragic, vices.

Charles I., 326

Chase, S. P., 170, 173, 179, 189, 194,
195, 196; in Cabinet, 206, 207, 235,
237, 284, 348 n.; qu. 267-8, 324-5;
resigns, 273, 310; and Presidency,
304-5, 307, 309; Chief Justice,
324-5

Chess, I.. plays, 128
Chesterton, G. K., qu. 356
Chicago, L. at, 184; convention,
191-2; deputations from, 266-7
Child-likeness, L.'s, 321
Chittenden, L. E., qu. 345-6
Christian? was L. a, 196
Church, L.'s, 196

Cincinnati, L. at, 124, 185, 208, 240
Civil War unnecessary, 216
Clarke, J. R., 30

Clary Grove Boys, the, 34-5, 125
Clay, Hy., 8, 140-1, 153, 168, 216,
236; his early career, 12, 13; and
Jackson, 20; and slavery, 23; and
Whig party, 32, 47; and nullifica-
tion, 47; and anti-slavery move-
ment, 92-6; defeat of, 97, 105; and
Texas, 98, 99; and compromise of
'50, 112, 113; L.'s eulogy on, 132-4;
L. on American system of, 185;
qu. 133; Douglas and, 136, 179
Cleanliness, L.'s, 128

Clinton, De Witt, 56

Clothes, L.'s, 213, 224; see appear-

ance.

Cobden, Richard, 245, 247, 276
Coercion, L.'s dislike of, 259-260
Colonisation Society, L. and the
African, 23

Colonisation of negroes, L. and the,
259, 260, 265
Columbus, I

Columbus, O., L. at, 185, 209
Commerce, L. on, 102
Compensated Emancipation, L. and,
270, 326-7, 330
Compromise of 1850, 112-3, 139-41
Confiscation Act, 262; L. disapproves
sudden, 257

Congress, L.'s ambition for, 83, 84;
nominated for, 98; messages to,
237-9, 250, 248-51, 256, 270-2, 316

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