The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-08-27
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
A Glowing Tribute from tl:e Pen Of
Henry Watserson.


From Caesar to Bisnark and Glad
stone the world has had its soldiers and
its statesmen. who rose to em!nence
and power step by step through i series
of geometricll progression, as it We're,
each promotion following in regular
order, the whole obedient to well es
tablished and we'll understood Laws of
cause and effect. These were not What
we call .'men of destiny" They were
men of the time. They We're men
whose career had Il beginning, mid
die and an end, rounding off ii life with
4 history, full, 1t may be, of interesting
and exciting events, hut comprehen
/ sible and comprehensive, simple, clear,
complete.
The inspired men are fewer. Whence
! their emanatIon, where and how they
got their power, and by what rule they
| lived, moved and had their being, we
! cannot see There is no explication To
their lives. They rose from shadow
and they went in mist. We see them,
! feed them, but we know them not
/ They arrived, Gods word upon their
! lips, they did their office, Gods mantle
upon them, and they passed away,
Gods holy light between the world
and them, leaving behind a memory
! half mortal half myth. From first to
! last they were distinctly the creations
/ of some special providence, battling the
wit of man to fathom, defeating the
Vaccinations of the world, the flesh
and the devil until their work was
done, and passing from the scene as
mysterously as they had come upon il :;
Luther, to-wit; Shakespeare, Burns,
even Bonaparte, the arcilangel of war,
havoc and ruin; not to 90 back Into
the dark ages for examples of the hand
| of God stretched out to raise up, to
protect and to east down.
Tried by this standard, and observed
IN an historic spirit, where shall we
find an illustration more impressive
than in Abraham Lincoln, whose life,
career and death might be chanted by
Il Greek chorus as at once the prelude
and the epilogue of the most Imperial
theme of modern timess
Born as lowly as the Son of God in a
howell; of what real rarentage we know
not; reared in perjury, squulor, with
no CLEAN of light, nor fair surround
| ing; Il young manhood veNed by weird
creams and visions, bordering at times
on madness; without grace, natural or
acquired; singularly awkward, ungain-
! ly, even among the uncouth about him;
grotesque i'll his aspect and ways; it
was reserved for this strange being,
| late in life, without name or fame, or
| preparation, to be Sn:itchcd from OBJ
security, raised to supreme command ut
a supreme moment, and Entrusted
! with the destiny of Il nation.
The great leaders of his party were
made to stand aside; The most expert
I f,r1 I I
the day, men like Seward and Chase
and Sumner, statesmen famous and
! trained, were sent to the rear: while
this unknown and fantastic figure was
brought by unseen hands to the front
and given the rcins of power. 1t is
entirely immaterial whether we are
! for him or against him> that, during
/ four years, carrying with them such
pressure of responsibility as the world
| had never witnessed before. he filled
the measure of the vast space allotted
| him in the actions of mankind and in
| the eyes of the world, is to say that he
was inspired of God, for nowhere else
could he have acquired the enormous
equipment indispensable to the situ-
alton
| Where did Shakespeare get his
! ginius: Where did Mozart get his
| music. Whose hand smotc the Tyre of
| the Scottish plowman ana stayed the
| life OF lie German prIeS,: Col alone,
and, as surely rs there We're raised up
! by God, inspired of God was Abraham
| Lincoln; and, thousand years hence.
:, no story, no tragedy, no epic poem will
be filled with greater wonder than that
which tells of his life and death. If
| Lincoln was not inspired of God, then
were not Luther, or Shakespeare, or
Burns. If Lincoln was not inspired Of
God, then there is no such thing on
earth as special providence. or the
interpositlon of divine power i'll the
affairs of en.-Courier Journal.
| -1IarpeT's Weekly, published Aug.
9th, contains complete set OF illas-
trations from photographs of the riots
in Tennessee and around Buffalo
1t also contains a graphic and enter
tanning description of Pekin, the capt
tai of China, copiously illustrated
! There is the seventh installment of
the important series The Capitals of
the World Among many OF her at
fractions in the same number is an
article on buffalo Bill in London"
with number of striking illustrations
by Frederic Remington.
Once IN a while the Leader man
gets things about correct The fol
lowing item is such an instance:
nils L. laugen should not be re-
c,,npS1l,la 70 hn A. ~ e., ~
sonal and political enemies and boilers.
I No doubt Mr.. IIaugen would have
been pleased if his friends could have
carried Douglas county but the bolt
was led by men who care nothing for
him but were preparing theis own fish
for the gridiron. He should not be
held responsible for their acts"
The Milling World believes in the
Republican policy of reciprocity.
Here is what it says:
Reciprocity continues to carry
American flour and other produce into
the countries south of us. IltirraIi for
reciprocity, which is just the sort of
free trade we desire, and the only sort
WE W III accept.
The Toronto World thanks its
God didn't know before that it had
one) that Canada can live without the
| United States. She keeps up 4 ter
rible howl, all the same. because sue
has to pay toll to Uncle Sam for using
/ his canal
| Milwaukee Journal: This canal
retaliation will open the eyes of the
people on both sides Of the line to the
/ injustice of lettering trade in any way
and they will demand a repeal of all
+ the obnoxious laws on both sides
/ HSuf scribe for the TINES.