Text Appearing Before Image: Iron, a photograph. Half-tone plate engraved by H. DavidsonPORTRAIT OF LINCOLN • K ABRAHAM LINCOI..\. 367 Text Appearing After Image: JOSHUA SPEED AND WIFE. (FROM A PAINTING BY HEALY, ABOUT 1 attention to dress was paid in the new capi-tal. Cloths, cassinetts, cassimeres, velvet,silk, satin, and Marseilles vestings, fine calfboots, seal and morocco pumps, for gentle-men, and for the sex which in barbarismdresses less and in civilization dresses morethan the male, silks, bareges, crepe lisse,lace veils, thread lace, Thibet shawls, lacehandkerchiefs, fine prunella shoes, etc. It isevident that the young politician was con-fronting a social world more formidably cor-rect than anything he had as yet seen. Governor Ford began some years beforethis to remark with pleasure the change inthe dress of the people of Illinois: the gradualdisappearance of leather and linsey-woolsey,the hunting-knife and tomahawk, from thegarb of men ; the deer-skin moccasin sup-planted by the leather boot and shoe; theleather breeches tied around the ankle re-placed by the modern pantaloons : and thestill greater improvement in the adornmentof w
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