Writing while the war was still undecided, James Russell Lowell considers the man the country had placed in the White House. He weighs Lincoln’s caution, common sense and training as a lawyer against the impatience of his critics, and argues that his slow, steady fairness was exactly the kind of statesmanship the crisis demanded.
A short contemporary appreciation from a leading New England man of letters, valuable for seeing Lincoln before the legend. Download the free EPUB.