The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-12

vast asSemDlage listened to the speak
er, who lowered up and said in q clear
ringing voice:
| 'Fourscore and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth upon this CONT
| nent a new nation, conceived in liberty
and dedicated to the proposition that
| all men are created equal. Now, wa
| are engaged in a great civil war, test
ing whether that nation, or any nation
so conceived and so dedicated, can long
endure We are met on a great battle
| held Of that war. We have come to
| dedicate a portion of that field as a
/ maj resting place for those who here
gave their lives that that nation might
| uve 1t is altogether fitting and proper
| that we should do this; but, in a larger
| sense, we cannot conSecrate, we cannot
| nalloW this ground. The brave men,
| ilVlng and dead, who struggled here,
| nave conSecrated it far above our
power to add or detract The world
VIII little note, nor long remember.
! what we say here; but it can never
| forget what they did here 1t is for us.
| the living, rather to be dedicated here
| to the unfinished work which thew who
fought here have thus far so nobly ad-
| Vanced. 1t is rather for us to be here
! dedicated to the great task remaining
| before us; that from these honored
| DEAD we take increased devotion to
| that cause for which they gave the last
| tul measure of devotion; that we here
mighty resolve that these. dead shall
not have died in vain; that this nation
under God, shall have new birth of
freedom; and that government of the
people by the people, and for the peo-
pie, shall not perish from the earth"
Not at Once Recognized.
Notwithstanding the touching pa
thos OF its sentiment, the simple beauty
OF It's d1ctlon, and it's great effect upon
the audience and the country, it was
not at once recognized as a master pro-
ductlon 1t was so short, and so diff
rect, and so simple, that it did not for
some time find place among the gems
| OF literature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
was so impressed that he declared that
His brief speech at Gettysburg will
not easily be surpassed by words on
any recorded occasion This and ono
other American speech-that Of John
Brown to the court that tried hin-and
part of Kossuth's speech at Birming
nam, can be compared with each other.
ana With no fourth" The Edinburgh
review reprinted it, and declared that
1T had never been equaled. excent nar-
haps by Pericles in his Grafton pro-
nounced upon the heroes of the Pelo-
ponesian war.
1864
Elected president for the second
time, by a vote of 2,216, 1857 to 1,SO8.725
Tor George B. Mcclellan, who had u
electoral votes to Lincoln's PIP.
1866
Inaugurated on the eastern portico OF
the capitol at Washington, Saturday.
March 4, the oath being administered
by Chief Justice Chase. His inaugu-
raj address contained SIS words and
the pronoun "P' was used only once.
The last sentence in this address,
which the London Spectator said was.
the noblest political document in his
tory, was as follows: with malice
toward none, with charity for all with
firmness in the right, as God gives US
to see the right, let us strive on to
finish the work we are in, to bind up
the nations wounds, to care for him
who shall have borne the battle, and
for his widows and orphans, to do all
which may achieve and cherish a just
and a lasting peace among ourselves
and with all nations"
1865
Visited the army before Richmond,
entered the city the day after it's fall,
and upon the surrender Of Lees army
April y was actively engaged in devils
ing generous plans for the RECONSTRUCT
ton of the South, when, on the even
ing Of Good Friday, April IA, at Ford's
theater watching Laura Keene's COM
pany In the play of 'The American
Cousin" he was shot by John Wilkes
Booth and died on the following MORN
ing, having served one month and elev-
en- days of his second term.
Notes of His Life.
He was one of seventeen presidents
who had no middle name.
He was the tallest Of all the presi-
dents, standing six feet three inches in
his stockings.
He was not committed to any special
creed, but was inclined to Methodism.
His parents were Baptists
His remains rest under a towering
pile of marble, granite and bronze in
Oak Ridge cemetery, one and one-half
miles north Of Springfield III. Mrs.
Lincoln's remains occupy the same
crypt that holds the grave Of her hus-
band.
His sobriquets are Honest Old Abe"
Father Abraham" and 1.-The Rail
Splitter" in the North, while in the
South among the colored people he
was Uncle Abe" and "Massa Link
um."
There were a few portraits of Mr..
Lincoln in his lifetime, and a vast
number of engravings from photo
graphs have made his face a familiar
one. There are also number Of stat
ues of him in different cities of the
Union. The Lincoln photography has
reached thousands of volumes, there are
quite a number Of noteworthy biogra-
phies, and something new is added to
the Lincolniana literature every year.
Some Remarkable Condolences.
There was remarkable coincidence
of events in his life and that of JEFF
ferson Davis. Both were born in Ken
lucky, in adjoining counties, Lincoln in
1909 and Davis in 1908; both removed
from their native state in childhood,
one to the North, the other South; in
the Black Hawk war (1832) Davis was
a second lieutenant of the regulars,
Lincoln a captain of volunteers; both
began their political careers at the
fdential elector for Polk, and Lincoln
presidential elector for Clay; both
were elected to congress about the
same time; and lastly in the parallel,
the same year and within a month Of
the same date, they were called upon
to preside over their respective gov
ernments, Davis as president of the
Confederate states, Feb. s, 1861, and
Lincoln as president of the United
States, March 4, 1851.
A striking instance of his thoughtful
ness was a letter written to Mrs. Blk
by, of Boston, dated at the executive
mansion Nov. q, 1864, and written by
his own hand, as follows:
81 have been shown in the files OF
the war department a statement of
the adjutant general Of Massachusetts,
that you are the mother of five sons
who have died gloriously on the field
Of battle I feel how weak and fruitless
must be any word of mine which should
attempt to beguile you from the grief
Of loss so overwhelming But I
cannot refrain from rendering you the
consolation that may be found in the
thanks of the republic they died to
save. pray our Heavenly Father may