The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-12

wise. strong. tender hand was set to
grasp the helm Of things? What Won
der that Secretary Stanton said Of him,
as he gazed upon the tall form and
kindly face, as he lax there smitten
down by the assassin's bullet, There
lies the most perfect ruler of men who
Carl Schurz: There never has been a
president in such constant and active
contact with the public opinion of the
country, as there never has been a pres
ident who. while at the head Of the gov
pie. Beyond the circle of those who had
long known him. the feeling steadily
grew that the man in the White House
was honest Abe Lincoln still, and that
every citizen might approach with com
plant, expostulation or advice, without
danger of meeting a rebuff from power
proud authority, or humiliating ondes
c%ension; and this privilege was u-sd by
SO many and with such unsparing free
dom that only superhuman patience
could have endured it ALL"
GEN. SHERMAN'S TRIBUTE.
Gen. Sherman. Lincoln was the
purest, the most generous, the most
magnanimous Of men. He will hold a
place in the worlds history loftler than
that of any king or 1t IS no
wonder that the parliaments of Europe,
that the people throughout the civilized
world should everywhere speak OF him
with reverence; for his work was of
the greatest labGrS a human intellect
ever sustained. I have seen and heard
many of the famous orators of our
ountr hut IincOln's unstudied
speeches all that I ever heard
I have never seen them equaled, or
even inflated. It was not scholarship;
it was not rhetoric: it was not elocu-
ton; it was the unaffected and spon-
taneOus ~eloquence Of the heart. There
was nothing of the mountain torrent in
T5- ,-aZ- - ---- v-+hn- tho -oT~7 AnUr
of the river"
A VOICE FROM THE SOUTH.
Henry Watterson, at the recent ban
quet of the confederate veterans, held
at New York: His vas the genius of
common sense. OF perfect intellectual
pedigree and was born in Kentucky
He knew all about the south, its in
Stitution, its traditions and its pecu-
liarities. From first to last through
out the angry debates preceding the
war, amid all the passions of the war
itself, not one vindictiVe, proscriptive
word fell from his tongue or pen,
whilst during its progress there was
scarcely a day when he did not project
his great personality between some
southern nan or woman and danger.
Yet the south does not know, except
as a kind of hearsay, that this big
Drained. b~ig-sOuled man was a friend,
a friend at court, when friends were
most IN need having l4G Will ana tHe
power to rescue it from the wolves OF
brutality and rapine whom the history
of all wars tell US the lust of victory,
the very smell of battle, lures from
their hiding to prey upon the helpless,
the dying and the dead. His conStitu-
tional powers were limited. But he
was in himself the embodiment of
great and moral power"
FROM LINCOLN'S PASTOR.
From a sermon by Lincoln's pastor,
Rev. D.. Gurley: Probably no man,
since the DAYS of Washington, was
in the very hearts of the people as
Abraham Lincoln. Nor was it a mis-
taken confidence and love He de-
served it, deserved it well. deserved It
all. He merited it by his character, by
his acts. n by the whole tenor. and
tone and spirit of his life He was
simple and sincere, plain and honest,
truthful and just, benevolent and kind
His perceptions were quick and clear,
his judgments were calm and accurate,
and his purposes were good and pure
beyond a question. Always and every
where he aimed, and endeavOred to be
and to do right. His integrity was
thorough. all-pervading, all-controll-
ing and incorruptible."
OUR GREATEST HERO.
From Gen. Grants address at the
dedication of the Lincoln monument
at Springfield. H.. October Is, 1874:
1t was his nature to find excuses for
his adversaries. In his death the ma
ton lost its greatest hero. In his
death the south lost its most just
friend"
From a public address, by Ralph
Waldo Emerson: He is the true his
tory of the American people in his
time. Step by step he walked before
them slow with their slowness, quick
ening his march by theirs; the true
representative of the continent; ar en-
tirely public man; father Of his coun-
try. the pulse of twenty millions throb-
bling in his heart, the thought of their
minds a~rticulated by his tongue"