Excerpt from Lincoln and Seward and Their Latest Biographers It is a very remarkable oversight, furthermore, that not one of the members of Lincoln's cabinet has received a full or care ful character-sketch. All merited such a study; the reader had a right to expect it and judicious use of the space would have left ample room in these ten volumes to describe the acts, per sonal traits and executive qualities of every one of Lincoln's chief advisers. To have omitted this is plainly an injustice to these men, or an indirect ...
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Excerpt from Lincoln and Seward and Their Latest Biographers It is a very remarkable oversight, furthermore, that not one of the members of Lincoln's cabinet has received a full or care ful character-sketch. All merited such a study; the reader had a right to expect it and judicious use of the space would have left ample room in these ten volumes to describe the acts, per sonal traits and executive qualities of every one of Lincoln's chief advisers. To have omitted this is plainly an injustice to these men, or an indirect confession that they were not of suffi cient importance to have justified Lincoln in selecting them in preference to many others. No one unacquainted with the great political leaders of the war, will gather from these ten volumes a clear conception Of the ability and character of any man who was intimately associated with Lincoln. True, the authors repeatedly recognize strong qualities in some of the members of the cabinet, but in almost every case several times as much space is employed in showing wherein these members fell short Of true greatness. These criticisms relate to the spirit and method of the authors, and to specific features of the work, rather than to its character as a whole. In chapters where the narrative does not touch personalities or involve war prejudices, it occasionally attains an excellence of the first order. The author of the three-volume life of William H. Seward is his son. Mr. Frederick W. Seward, as editorial writer on the Albany Evening journal during the decade previous to his father's secretaryship, was very familiar with all his political acts. When his father took charge of the Department of State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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