The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-02-20

'OOeu ~ AUAno nuQ 3OfO6u. IQ0 new con-
vert belongs % our ranks, and he Is well
come, hUa he should remember that he
cannot put patriotism at Issue with the
party which Has been the very embodiment
OF patriotism from Its birth to the present
hour. -.
Gentlemen OF the Marquette club and
my fellow citizens, let us cherish be prin-
ciples of our party and conseorate ourselves
anew to their triumph. We have but to
put our trust In the people, we have but
to keep In close touch with the people, we
have but to hearken to the voice of the
people as 1t comes to us from every quar-
ter, we have but to paint on our banners
the sentiment the people have everywhere
expressed at every election during the last
three years" Patriotism, protection and
prosperity win another most glorious
and decisive Republican national victory.
Still Near the People.
The present generation knows Washing
ton only from history, and by that alone
can judge him. Lincoln we know by his
tory also, but thousands are still living
who participated in the great events In
which he was leader and master. Many
of his contemporaries survived him. Some
are here yet In almost every locality So
Lincoln Is not far removed from u.s.. In
deed he may be said to be still known to J
the millions, not surrounded by the mists
of antiquity or by halo Of ssdolatry that
is impenetrable. 3
He never was inaccessible to the people,
Thousands carry with them yet the words
which he spoke in their hearing. Thou
sands remember the pressure of his hand,
and remember, as though 1t were but
yesterday, and thousands of my comrades
xryfvl 4 rho~. 10 - H.,
Army Of the Potomac Immediately after
the battle of Antietan his indescribably
sad, thoughtful, farseeing expression
pierced every mans soul. Nobody could
keep the people away from him, and when
they came to him he would suffer no one
to drive them back. So it is that an un-p
usually large number Of the American
people came to know this great man and
that he Is still SO we'll remembered by
them. 1t cannot be said that they are mis-
taken about him or that they miSinter-
preted his character and greatness.
Men are still connected with the govern
ment who served during his entire admin
istration. There are at least two senators
and perhaps twice as many representatives
who participated in his first Inauguration,
men who stood side by side with him in
the trying duties of his administration and
have been, without Interruption, in one
branch or another of the public service
ever since. The supreme court of the
United States still has among its members
one whom Lincoln appointed, and SO of
other branches of the federal judiciary.
His faithful private secretaries are still
alive and have rendered posterity great
service in their history of Lincoln and his
times. They have told the story Of his life
and public services with such entire frank
ness and fidelity as to exhibit to the world
!, the very inner courts of his soul"
Lessons of His Life.
This host of witnesses, without excep-
ton, agree as to the tEue nobility and in
tellectual greatness of Lincoln. All
proudly claim for Lincoln the highest abil-
tiles and the most distinguished and self
sacrificing patriotism. Lincoln taught
them and has taught us that no party or
partisan can escape responsibility to the
people; that no party advantage or pre-
summed party ad gantage should ever swerve
us from the plain path of duty, which Is
ever the path of honor and distinction.
He emphasized his words by his daily life
and Deeds He showed to the world by
his lofty example as well as by precept and
maxim that there are times when the voice
of partisanship should be hnshed and that
of patriotism only be needed. He taught
that good service done for the country,
even in aid of an unfriendly administra-
ton, brings to the men and the party who
rise above the temptation of temporary
partisan advantage a lasting gain in the
respect and confidence of the people.
When Lircoln died, grateful people,
moved by common impulse, Immediately
placed him side by side with the immortal
Washington and unanimously proclaimed
them the two greatest and best Americans
That verdict has not changed and will
not change, nor can we conceive how the
historians Of this or any age will ever de-
termine what is so clearly a matter of pure
personal opinion as to which of these noble
men is entitled to greatest honor and
homage from the people of America.
A recent writer says, 1.-THE amazing
growth Lincoln made in the esteem Of his
countrymen and the world while he was
doing his great work has been parelleled
by the increase Of his fame in the years
since he died" He might have added
that, like every important event of his
life, Lncoln's fame rests upon q severer
test than that Of any other American.
Never, In all the ages Of men, have the
acts, words, motiyes-even thoughts-of
any statesman been SO scrutinized, ANA
lyzad, studied or speculated upon as his,
yet from all inquirers, without distinction
as to party, church, section or country, /
from friend and from foe alike, comes the
unanimous verdict that Abraham Lincoln
must have no second place In American
history and that he will never be second
to any in the reverentl affections Of the
American people. s.s4sfts2s 35ft x 81
Inspired By Divine, Power. az
d Says the gifted Henry Watterson in q
most beautiful, truthful and eloquent trib-
ute to the great emancipator: Born as
lowly as the Son of God, reared in perjury
and squalor, with no CLEAN Of light nor
fair surroundings, it was reserved for this
strange being, late in life, without name
or fame or seeming preparation, to be
;snatched from obscurity, raised to supreme
command at a supreme moment and in
trusted with the destiny of nation.
Where did Shakespeare get his geniusS
Where did Mozart get his music9 Whose
hand smote the Tyre of the Scottish plow-
man and staid the life of the German
priest? God alone, and, as surely as these
were raised by God, inspired of God was
Abraham Lincoln, and thousand years
hence no story, no tragedy, no epic poem
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