THE SOUTHERNER

BOOKS BY THOMAS DIXON

The Way of a Man
The Fall of a Nation
The Foolish Virgin
The Victim

The Southerner

The Sins of the Father

The Leopard's Spots

The Clansman

(The Birth of a Nation)

The Traitor

The One Woman

Comrades

The Root of Evil
The Life Worth Living

176 C

A ROMANCE OF
THE REAL LINCOLN

BY

THOMAS DIXON

"Have you never realized it, my friends, that Lincoln,
though grafted on the West, is essentially, in personnel and
character, a Southern contribution?"—WALT WHITMAN.

INTER

EFOLIA

RUCTUS

ILLUSTRATED BY

J. N. MARCHAND

NEW YORK AND LONDON

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

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