The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-13

mot going to change it." The time Will new
or come In this country when the people
won't know exactly what sugar -coa'eu
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6tness for his office and his qualities lot
leadership at the time the executive man
tie fell upon him, said: he was one Oh
the mass Of the people, the class that HNes
and thriyes by self Imposed labor, felt that
the work that was TO be done was work
of their own-the assertion OF equaly
against the pride of oligarchy OF free iapor
against the lordship over saves OF the
great Industrial people against all the eI-
piring aristocracies Of which any remnant
had tided down from the middle ages.
He was Of a religious turn OF nina, with
ont superstition and the unbroken faith
of the mass was like his own AS ne went
along through his difficult journey, sounding
his way, he held fast by the hand OF the
people and tracked his footsteps with even
feet his pulses beat, twined with their
pulse"
He was. indeed. a leader of men, a great
tribune OF the people, to whom they gave
their trust with their hearts There was
with him none of the arts and clap-trap
of the demagogue to catch the ear, or the
false lights held out to lure the unwary
to ruin, which so mark our present decade.
His words and teachings were of honest,
sterling worth, and not highly polished
brass, whose only value Is the glitter Of its
worthlessness.
He was a man OF peace and hated war
and yet there fell upon him the responsible
ity of the greatest, cruelest war known in
modern history. How his great heart bled!
What prayers, with sobs. went up to his
Great Master from his private oratory, that
the cup might pass from his lips" are
known but to the Master, who doeth all
things well" He was commissioned, as
1t were, TO break the fourth seal of the
apocalypse and behold pale horse: and
his name who sat upon him was Death
and He'll followed him" This man.
gentle, so peace-loving. bowed mis- head
and accepted his trust. and with a stern,
immoyable face. concealIng the inward strug-
GLE anxiety and suffering, was given also
a faculty of speech to thwart the too in
quisitive mindreader and thicken the cover
under which real purpose and convictions
were hid
do not believe in his Inspiration. I
do not believe in his canonization. He was
a man with all the attributes that enter
Into manhood. He had all the tastes, am
biton longings and passions OF other
men. but he had them under complete con-
troll, so that they might be used for the
benefit OF common humanity and not alone
for self qualification. He curtained his
thoughts and intentions. not for the pur-
poses OF deception, but simply to guard
against the plucking Of unripe fruit
Emerson says of him: His broad good
humor, running easily into jocular talk IN
which he delighted was rich gift TO this
wise man. 1t enabled him to keep his Sc
cret; TO meet every kind of man. and every
rank of society; to take off the edge of the
severest decision; to mask his own purpose
and sound his companion, and to catch with
true instinct the temper of every company
he addressed. This faculty to a
man of severe labors in anxietes and ex-
hausting crises is natural restorative,
good sleep, and is the protection OF the
over-driven brain against rancor and in
sanity"
Dignity Cared for Itself.
He was not over careful of his dignity,
because he felt that his dignity would care
for itself. He waived ceremony, and cut
every knot of red tape and rule OF pre-
cedent, when necessary to do a good deed
by the most expeditions route It is said
Of him that once upon great and sudden
emergency, in the night time without any
robe OF state save cotton nightgown OF
scanty proportions drawn about his ungain-
" form he met his counsellors and dis
cussed matters Of state. He could be and
was when necessary. as stately. cold and
dignifed with eyes dilated and flashing
as if the blue blood of generations of title
But of a truth lit was not into ancestors
graves that Abraham Lincoln dug for the
clothes that were to clcthe him in the garb
Of manhood: he studied the laws Of his
Creator to find the material and he re-
ceiyed the patent of his nobility from God
The lessen OF this life Of Abraham Lin
coin to the young American is not to grow
respondent and faint-hearted in your strug-
gle to reach eminence in life, because for
tune does not smile and society frowns up
on you. Had Abraham Lincoln been de-
spoiled of honor and power and been in
troduced as the honest, homely man he
was into that society of Anglophobsts
that seeks the tracery Of aucal coronet
on it's escutchson and obtains its principal
sustenance from the phosphorent light