The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-03-08
Imnortal Words of Lincoln.
We can not escape history.
Revolutionize through the, ballot

/, Revolutionize through the ballot
t box
Lot none fnlter who thinks he i
} right.
1t is no pleasure to me to tri
umph over any one.
l do not impugn the motives o
lany one opposed to me.
Come what will, L will keep my
faith with friend and foe.
1 have not willingly planted {
thorn in any mans bosom.
All that am, all that L hope tc
be, Lowe to my angel mother.
Suspicion and jealousy never
did help any man in any situation
There is no grievance that is o
fit object of redress by mob law.
This country, with it's institu.
tions, belongs to the people. who
inhabit it.
! For thirty years L have been a
temperance man, and / am too old
to change.
God must like common people,
or He would not have made SO
many of them.
Gold is good in it's place; but
living, brave and patriotic men are
better than gold.
Nowhere in the world is present
ed government of so much liber-
ty and equality.
The government must be pre-
served, in spite of the acts of any
man or set of men.
Stand with anybody that stands
right. Stand with him while he is
RI Int, and part with him when he
goes wrong.
Let us have faith that right
makes might; and, in that faith,
let us to the end dare to do our
duty as weunderstand it.
1 have never had feeling politi-
cally that did not spring from the
sentiments embodied in the Declar-
alton of Independence.
The way for young man to rise
is to improve himself every way he
can, never suspecting that any
body wishes to hinder him.
The purposes of the Almighty
are perfect, and must prevail,
though we erring mortals may fail
to accurately perceive them in nd-
vance.
The reasonable man has long
since agreed that intemperance is
one of the greatest, if not the great
est, of all evils among mankind,
1 know the Lord is always on the
side of the right. But it is my con-
stant anxiety and prayer that [ and
this nation shall be on the Lords
side.
No mon living are more worthy
to be trusted than those who toll up
from poverty-none less inclined
to take or touch aught which they
have not honestly earned,
Many free countries have lost
their liberty, and ours mays lose
hers; but, if she shall, be it my
proudest plume, not that was the
last to desert, but that / never de-
serted her.
have been driven many times
to my knees by the overwhelming
conviction that L had nowhere else
to go. My own wisdom and that
of all about me seemed insufficient
for that day.
Every man is said to have his
peculiar ambition. Whethor it be
true or not, I can say, for one, that
L have no other 80 great as that of
being truly esteemed of my fellow
men, by rendering myself worthy
of their esteem.
If all that has beon said by ora
tors and poets since the creation of
the world in praise of women were
applied to the women of America,
1T would not do them tull Justlce
for their conduct during the war
God bless the women of
America
Any people, anywhere, being in
olined and having the power, have
the right to rise up and shake off
the existing government and form
a new one that suits them better
This is a most valuable aud sacred
right which, we hope and believe,
is to liberate the world.
appeal to you again constantly
to bear in mind that with you
[ the people, !, and not with politi-
clans, not with Presidents, not
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