Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-04-15


his speeches and in one of his short
addresses he said, Fellow citizens, / /
have been told that some Of my oppo- |
nents have said il is disgrace to the
county of SangamOn TO have such a /
looking man as | am stuck up for the !
legislature. Now ] thought this was
a free country. That is the reason !
why | address you today. Had | |
known to the contrary | should not |
have consented TO run. But | will |
say one thing, let the shoe pinch where !
it may, when have been a candidate
before you some five or six times and
have been beaten every time, will
consider it disgrace and be sure
never to run again. But | am bound
to beat that man, if ] am beaten my
self, mark that"
In 1925 he studied law, barefoot,
sitting in the shade Of a tree, and
would grind around with the shade.
He occasionally varied the attitude by
lying fiat on his back and putting his
feet up the tree, position which
might have been uRfay0rablc in the
case Of a man with shorter extreme
ties. "The first time ever saw Abe
with law book In his hand" says
Squire Cooley, "he was sitting astride
Of Jack Bales WOOD pile, in New
Salem. Says l, Abe, what are you
studying?'" Law" says Abe
Great God Almighty responded L."
1t was too much for Cooley. He
could not suppress the blasphemy. 1t
was such a figure acquiring the science
Of law ia such asituation.
Passing on to the crowning point Of
LiHcoln's life. As he was leaving Hi
nois for the national capitol, when he
reached the eastern boundary of the
state his last words TO his fellow Citi-
zens were, Behind the clouds the sun
is shining still" and in Philadelphia
he said, This country must ne saved,
but if it cannot be saved without Civ
ing up those great eternal principles
that make death for ones country
pleasure, not pain, I was about to
say | would rather be asSasSinated on
this very spot than TO surrender it and
Them he added sUlemnly, as he drew
his tall figure TO its full height. 81
have said nothing but what | am will
ing to live by, and, 10y the pleasure Of
Almighty God, to die by" What a
sentence from one Of the grandest of
American patriots.
On taking the reigns Of government
he found the Union rent asunder.
Buchanan, whom he had succeeded,
had sent our navy to all parts Of the
world so it could not receive orders.
The arseHals Of the North had been
moved to the South and filed with
munitions of war. The South had
thoroughly fortified itself, and sent
solid shot across the waters and bat
tered the walls Of Sumptcr. 1t was
but the signal that the South was ably
armed.
Lincoln took in the situation at a
glance. He stamped on the ground
and a million men rushed to arms:
| their camp-Hres stretched from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. He smote
the waters and one Of the grandest
nayics that ever kissed the crest Of
any sea, crowned our waters. He
breathcd into the air and munitions
Of war filed our mighty storehuuses
aud arsenals, equipped and armed.
He stretched forth his hand and filled
the bankrupt treasury and restored
the confidence Of the people. lie
drove back the crimson tide Of bloody
war upon itself until il reached the
gulf Of dry ground where waters had
rolled. lie smote the rock Of liberty
and with one stroke sent freedoms
life current coursing through the
veins Of four million human beings.
When he fell a martyr to his coun-
try the hearts Of all true men, not in
our Union alone, but over the globe,
were bowed in sorrow TO the dust and.
as on the occasion when William the
Silent was striker down in a like man
ner, even the little children cried in
the streets and the voice Of lamenta-
ton was heard from the hut to the
mansion.
Yesterday was the anniversary of
Lincoln's death, and thousands Of
gray-haired, bent and wrinkled men.
who lived and labored with Lincoln in
the days that tried mems souls, re-
membered it with a sigh and tear.
and with silent prayer that Jehovah
will forever bless the pure and noble
soul that once dwelt in the ungainly
tenement known as Abraham Lincoln.
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