more, the Union is restored, a people begins to live according to the laws of reason, and republicanism is intrenched in a continent. Geo. Bancroff Our Heroic Themes' (READ BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY) BY GEORGE HENRY BOKER. Crown we our heroes with a holier wreath With gifts of mercy in his outstretched hands; 1 By special permission of J. B. Lippincott Co. He led his people with a tender hand, Frenzied with rage, unscrupulous with crime, No king this man, by grace of God's intent; Illustrations ABRAHAM LINCOLN Frontispiece After the engraving by William E. Marshall, from the portrait LINCOLN READING THE EMANCIPATION PROCLA- From the painting by Carpenter, now in the Capitol in Wash- GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT Wood-engraving after the original photograph by Brady. PAGE 42 92 Wood-engraving after a photograph by George M. Bell. |