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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xxiii. (search)
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xlix. (search)
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A morning or two after the visit of Mr. Greeley, I was called upon by a gentleman, who requested my assistance in securing a brief interview with the President, for the purpose of presenting him with an elaborate pen-and-ink allegorical, symbolic representation of the Emancipation Proclamation; which, in a massive carved frame, had been purchased at a recent Sanitary Fair, in one of the large cities, by a committee of gentlemen, expressly for this object.
The composition contained a tree, representing Liberty; a portrait of Mr. Lincoln; soldiers, monitors, broken fetters, etc.; together with the text of the proclamation, all executed with a pen. Artistically speaking, such works have no value,--they are simply interesting, as curiosities.
Mr. Lincoln kindly accorded the desired opportunity to make the presentation, which occupied but a few moments, and was in the usual form.
He accepted the testimonial, he said, not for himself, but in behalf of the cause in which all w
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lx. (search)
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Index. (search)
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 20 : review of the Maryland campaign . (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862 , September (search)