The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-06

iron-rinmed syllogisms crushed soph-
isms as IF they We're egg shells. His
wit. his philosophy, his strong saving
common sense, his quaint forms of ex-
preston have filed our political liter
erature with familiar apothegms.
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What better rebuke to dogmatism
than the phrase, Everybody is wiser
than anybody" What clearer descrip-
ton of a republic than Government
of the people. by the people, for the
people? What more complete destruc-
ton of sophism than his answer to
the contention that slavery might be
excluded from a territory by unfriend-
ly legislation. Judge Douglass" said
he, holds that a thing may be law
fully driven away from a place where
it has a lawful right to CO." What
annihiiating sarcasm in his reply TO
those who insisted that Republican
success would entail negro equality
and miscegenation. Because 1 do
not want a colored woman for my
slave said he, lit does not follow that
do want her for my wife. Ny under
standing is that 1 can just let her
alone"
The argument against secession he
stated in a sentence, Can aliens make
treaties easier than friends can make
laws?" What grander plea for human
liberty than his appeal to Congress in
behalf of the passage of the 18th
amendment? In giving freedom to
the slave" said he, eve assure freedom
to the free-honorable alike in what we
give and in what we preserve. We
shall nobly save or meanly lose the
last best hope of EARTH What more
comprehensive of the duty of the hour
than the familiar sentence, with NAL
ice toward none, with charity for ALL
with irmness for the right as God
gives us to see the right?
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There are many words of Lincoln so
fifty and grandly said that they will
burn in the sky of history like fixed |
stars, when the masterpieces of great |
orators shall have vanished with their |
train of rhetorical splendors into |
space. There are ideas of his which |
victorious armies placed upon their
eagles and carried to a grander fru-
poet dreamed. Never was ruler or rep
resentative truer to a trust than he.
His reigning, animating purpose was
to preserve the geographical integrity
and political unity of the United States
Of America, and to this was added as
an outgrowth of the war, determina-
ton to extend the blessings of freedom
to every human being dwelling be-
Meath no chalter Of re
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He never lost sight of this purpose.
He was conservative when the prema-
lure adoption of radical measures
might have alienated the wavering,
and weakened the Union cause. He
vas radical when the power of time
md circumstance crumbled the bar
'iers of prejudice which for years had
Instructed the path to justice. His in
was never absorbed or
;ubverted even by the genius and
power of the great men who counsel
ed him. Without being egotistic, or
iogmatic, or stubborn, he was firm.
he took each mans counsel" but
preserved his own judgment" With
,ut pr vious training in the conduct
# public affairs, he was called upon
o grasp the reins of government when
he chariot of state was rocking amid
he commissions of war. But he kept
steady hand, and neither the terri
led counsels of over-cautious conser-
'atism, nor the demands of unthink-
ng and improvident zeal could drive
i'm from the path along which he be-
ieved the safety of the nation de-
handed that he should guide his !
ountrymen. 1t was his privilege to /,
elect the best policy for the time.
nd his gift of discrimination was lit ..
lie short of marvellous. He stands ap-
roved by the popular judgment of his
ines and of later history as seldom
aving made a mistake. He was
omet ines deceived in his judgment of
7e0, SFt he was hardly ever at fault ;
! MS Judgment of measures. Under :
landing the American people better :
han many men of greater experience
nd craftsmanship, he never enter :
aimed a doubt as to the final issue OF .
he contest When disaster encom- =
assed us and defeat held back our ar 3
lies he confidently called for more a
len. Sustained by his imperturbable +
'ust in the righteousness of our
ause, and in the power and willing
ess OF the people to meet all require
tents, he pressed steadily onward to
lat perfect consummation of national o
aace, unity and freedom, which, with n