The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-02-26
|LINCON'S PERSONAL CHAR.
ACTERISTICS.
His Love Of Right and Truth
His Religious OpiniOns-NOt
q SOciable Man.
The New York Tribune.

lie New 1ork Tribune.
The following letter has been received
by gentleman of this city from w. H
Herndon formerly Mr.. Lincoln's law
partner:
CHINKaPIN, Sangamon Co., Jan. Is, 1874.
DEAR sIR: You say you desire to
know all possible things of the good and
great dead. have just now . few mo-
ments to spare, and do not know how
better to spare them than to tell you
what Mr.. Lincoln realiy Was and what
he was not. Dir. Liacoln was Q kind,
tender, and sympathetic man, feeling
deeply in presence OF suffering, pain,
wrong, or oppression of any shape; he
was the very essence and substance of
truth, was of unboun1ed veracity; had
unlimited integrity, always telling the
exact truth, and always doing the hon
est thing at all times and under all cir
cumstances. He was just to man; he
loved the right, the good, and true with
all his soul. was with Mr.. Lincoln for
about twenty-five years, and can truth
fully say that never knew him to do q
wrong, never knew him to do any little
dirty trick. He was noble. In his
nature he felt nobly and acted nobly.
| never knew SO true man, SO good q
one, so just one, so interrupted and
| incorruptible one. He was patriot
and loved his country we'll, and died for
it. Mr.. Lincoln expressed his great
feelings; in his thoughts, and, his great
thoughts in his feelings; he lived in his
thoughts, and thought in his feelings.
By these his soul was elevated and puri-
fed for his work. His work was the
highest and grandest religion, noble
duty nobly done.
Mr.. Lincoln was cool and calm under
the most trying circumstance, he had
unbounded charity for all men. In re.
ligeop he was Theorist, somewhat after
the order of Theodore Parker. Mr..
man; was, like Washington, severely
prstical; he never ran in advance of his
age, and yet was always directing the
idea and feelings OF men to purely pratt
cal ends, to something that would end
IN good. Mr.. Lincoln never shaped his
veracity, integrity or virtue to circum.
stances, be fashioned and formed circum.
stances, so far as he could, to virtue,
veracity, and to integrity. He scorned
meaness everywhere and at all times.
and was bold and manly in his dennnci-
alton of wrong, however and by how
man; he was a statesman high above sill
tricks. How such q man as Lincoln could
walk up to the highest point of grandeur,
from such a low origin, God only knows.
But it was so ordained from the begin.
ming, and so it is. Mr.. Lincoln was a
man OF great fidelity to what he believed
was right-wss true to friends, never
deserving them till they deserted virtue,
veracity, and integrity. Mr.. Lincoln
could be, and was, trusted by the peo-
pie with almost OmnipOtent power, and
he never abused it nor shook the public
faith in him. He was true to his trust,
true to his county, and true to the
rights of man. What noble man and
what noble life he lived! Washington
was Americas creator; Lincoln was it's
savior. Mr.. Lincoln now stands up
against the deep blue sky the grandest
figure of the age.
| have now stated to you Mr.. Lincoln'e
leading Characteristics, and if you like
him better for them | am well satisfied
with what l have told you. I have
weighed every word and sentence, and
can truly say they are true to Lincoln,
and Lincoln true TO them. Mr.. Lincoln
was not very social man. He was not
spontaneous in his feelings; was, az
some said, cold; he was rather reflec-
tive-not cold. However, take him all
in all, he was as near a perfect man as
God generally makes. Yours truly,
II Hvpr