The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-05

this monster iniquity would receive its
death wound, and that the agent of d.
vine Providence was within the hear
ing Of his voice. Lincoln went home
from this service as one in a dream,
and telling the incident to his law part
ner, said: Il can't get rid Of the i'm
preston that 1 am the man" What Is
this but the call Of the prophet, be he
Isaiah or be he Abraham?
His early life of hard toll and hard
ship not only placed him in sympathy
with the lot of the slave but developed
that exceptional physical strength
which marked him among men, and
made possible the bearing of the
mighty burdens of his later years. His
observation Of the working of the slave
system in his youth, and in his visits
to the South deepened his early i'm
pressions and helped him to slowly
form his purpose. While a member of
! the Legislature of Illinois, we have his
first published protest against an act
which was in favor of slavery in har-
mcny with the then commonly received
ideas. In 1849, Mr. Lincoln, then a
member Of congress, offered a substi-
tute for bill pending in which he pro-
posed to abolish slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia, and gained some
credit in the debate, in which he took
he seems to have been coming nearer
to the standard which was to mark
his later years. There We're two parties
| of those who opposed this favorite in
stitution Of the South, first the ultra
abolitionists, and second. those who
used their efforts to restrain the greed
of the slave power, and limit il 10 the
soil already cursed by it's presence.
Abraham Lincoln belonged to the sec
ond class, believing that for the present
he could so do better service and await
ing time when it would be possible
to destroy 1t root and branch. The
most of his speeches therefore are on
the limitation of slavery, though often
ne broke forth in fearful denunciations
| OF it as monster crime The first
great utterance of this period was at
| Bloomington, ILL.,, May %. 1856, at the
| organization Of the Republican party
in Illinois. Mr.. Lincoln was called out
after speeches by Browning and others,
| and made the speech of his life. in
which he denounced the slave power in
unmeaSured terms and set the cOnven-
ton wild with enthusiasm. The scene
which followed has been equaled in
American history only once, and that
was when Patrick Henry made his ap-
peal before the Virginia convention
The Lincoln and Douglas debates are
full of his growing antipathy and the
self against it. His nomination for the
presidency opened the way for another
series OF brilliant speeches in the heat
ed canvass which followed eliminating
in the Cooper institute address which
placed him in the foremost rank of
political speakers and statesmen, and
which bristled with his hatred against
the institution of slavery and revealed
his mastery of the subject in all it's
complex relations.
In the trying scenes of the war we
see how we'll he fulfilled the promise Of
his speeches and his expressed con-
victions. When he saw that the South
would rebel, he gave himself to the
solution of a double problem, the pre-
servation of the Union, and the over
throw of slavery. In both, he was des-
perately in earnest, for he was a pat
riot of the highest order. His first
dream was the purchasing Of the slaves
by the government, ana toward this
end he bent all his energies, but to
fail. The burdens grew very heavy
and his usual light heartedness failed
him as he faced these tremendous
issues. In these days. he drew near to
God and Wrestled with him for his
country and for help to do his duty,
and the help came. He saw at last,
that it was impossible to temporize and
save the Union and destroy slavery
and so he signed the Emancipation
Proclamation, and was at rest. The
threatened dangers at home and abroad
were aVerted, success came to the
Union arms, the Confederacy waned
and died at Appomattox, and slavery
with it.
This prophet. of our modern times
came by a strange route to his crown.
! His methods were slow, he was not
an intUitive thinker, he came to his
convictions 5y4 processes s1of thought.
but when III fhis way ne arrived at a
conviction. from it he could not be
moved. By closest thought, pains TAX
ing care, a development of the love Of
man in the name of God by the bear
ing of burdens and the courageous
constant loyalty to duty all cemented
together by the blood of his martyrdom,
he earned his right to the worlds love
and to place high up among the
great Professionals, the friends of the
race who have laid down their all to
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