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ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
from La Democr.cia, Nov. %, 1ss4J

from La Denocraca, Nov. %, Is64l
Praise eternal to the Republic of the United
States Abraham Lincoln, the Washington of the
slaves, the patriarch of universal liberty, the illustri-
Gus magistrate who renews a world. and who comes
10 wipe out the long enduring injustice Of history,
is raised anew to the Presidency, reelected by that
great people of severe republicans. The United
States have demonstrated in this supreme occasion
that in free peoples the principle of government has
more strength, more power, than in those where au-
thority is imposed by force and appeals 70 violence.
Lincoln, on taking power, unclaimed war in the Uni
ted States, because he represented the hottest of ideas
the abolition Of slavery. The United States have
given torrents of blood, mountains of treasure, and
in order to show to the world that they are not wea-
ry, that they do not repent, reGlect the man who
personifes this glorious war, at whose conclusion
stands the emancipation of the acknowledgements
fact most sublime and transcendent of all history,
the honor of modern civilization. Let us rejoice.
then-rejoice the people everywhere! The greatest
of the republics gives the example most sublime
which history records-breaks the chains Of the
slaves. Eternal praise to the Republic of the United
States
AT THE LAST MOMENT.
Prom La Discussion, November 81, 1851
The reelection of Abraham Lincoln is now all un-
doubted fact, in spite of all that certain newspapers
have said against it. And it could not be otherwise,
because the cause Of liberty and the cause Of civiliza-
ton so requ ired II.
The Discussion also contains the following leading
article, written in anticipation Of the event
THE REFLECTION oP ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
From the {" Discussion" Of Madrid-Transla6onl
America is the world Of great ideas and OF great
contests, because it is the world Of liberty. Upon
her soil must be decided, probably at no distant
day, the most distant problems Of history. There
the spirit of the sixteenth century, with its religious
protest, equally with the spirit Of Philip H., has ia
ken refuge, equally SO, the most absurd and repug-
nant intolerance, as thu most ample independence OF
thought. The principle of liberty has been realized,
with all its consequences, in Northern America; that
of authority, in Southern America; and the contest
between these principles, which is reflected in the
history Of the human race, has had. in that growing
civilization, q most particular character, the results
OF which are incalculabie. 1t 10 impossible. there
fore, that We should abstract from America a page
at the same time most glorious and most sad in the
history of Spain. 1t is also impossible that we should
forget that immense continent, when at this moment,
perhaps, the re election of Abraham Lincoln 10 the
high position OF President OF the North American
Republic will have been an accomplished fact.
The reelection Of Abraham Lincoln, in the event
Of its realization, will be G decisive step in the diff
cult circumstances which actually encompass the cell
ebrated Republic. The idea which animates Lincoln
is the same which animated Washington, Jefferson,
Franklin. Jay, Hamilton, and many others; it is the
idea which presided at the formation of the abolition
societies, that Of Pennsylvania founded in 1875, that
Of New York in 1885, and those Of Maryland and
Virginia; it is the idea which Benjamin Lundy de-
Tended il the the Journal called The Cnirersal
Emancipation1st, and William Garrison in The Lib
orator it - the idea Of that powerful anti slavery