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 Addresses and Papers, L.'s, qu. 65, Albert, Prince, 246, 248 Washington (1848), 127-8, 158-9, Arbitration, L. favours, 247-8 Army, the Federal, 235, 288 n. Autobiography, L.'s, 359-60 ance. BACON, Lord, 295 n. Baltimore, L. in, 211, 317; riots, Bancroft, George, 259 Bank-presidents, L. and the, 293 Berry & Lincoln's store, 43-5; debt, Berry, Lucy, 10 Bible, L. and the, 19, 77, 294, 308, Bitterness towards Douglas, L.'s, 177 Ant, L. on the life of the, 16 369 Border States and the war, 251, 256, 257, 259-60 Boys, L. and his, 128 Bright, John, 3, 245, 276, 278, 281-3, Bull's Run, Battle of, first, 239, 245; Burns, Robert, L.'s love for, 2, 44 CABINET, L,'s, 205-6, 207 Calhoun, John, 45-6, 145 Calhoun, J. C., 45, 92, 93, 112, 113, Cameron, Simon, 110, 205, 206, 235, Canada, 229, 246, 310 Capital becoming congested in U.S., Captain of Volunteers, L. as, 40-3 Carpenter, F. B., qu. 292, 346, 347; Cass, Lewis, 106, 107, 139 Cecil, Lord R., 281 Chambers, R., 295 n. prophetic, radicalism, religion, Charles I., 326 Chase, S. P., 170, 173, 179, 189, 194, Chess, I.. plays, 128 Cincinnati, L. at, 124, 185, 208, 240 Clary Grove Boys, the, 34-5, 125 Clinton, De Witt, 56 Clothes, L.'s, 213, 224; see appear- ance. Cobden, Richard, 245, 247, 276 Colonisation of negroes, L. and the, Columbus, O., L. at, 185, 209 Congress, L.'s ambition for, 83, 84; |