The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-11
s.A GREAT AMERIcAN.v

! As Seen By statesmen. Generals. Ills
 torians, Poets, and Divtnes' The kindiy--earnest brave, toresesihs
 man, sagacious, patient, dreading praise,
 not blame. New birth Of our new soil, tns tns'
 Americana. R. Lowell The most perfect ruler of men the Edwin M stanton. He saved the Republic without veil ing the statue of berty,--Inscription on a medal sent Mrs. Lincoln by the French Liberals. This man will stand out in the tra- ditions of the world as an tncarnarlnn of the people, of modern democracysit. self
 In his character there is something so honely and innocent that it takes the question out of oil the ppmp or history, and the ceremonial or diplo- macy, and touches the heart ef nations
 Benjamin pfsrneli X For Americans his name is imper- ishabIy joined with that of washing. ton in the designation of "Father,' which no others yet have borne--the one, saviour and founders; the other preserver and !iberator. ~
 James Schouier There a1e men IS good as he. but they do bad things There are men as intelligent as he. but they do foolish things. Tn him goodness and intelli. gence combined to make their best
 Phillips Brooks Lincoln leaves for American hiss tory the greatest best, most charac- teristic. artistic. moral personality. Honesty. goodness, ShrewduesS. con- science and Unionisn. in its truesf and ampIest sense, Aformed a hard.pan of } Walt Whitman. Lincoln is probably the most re- markable example on the pages of hiss tory, showing the possibilities of our country. From the poverty in which he was born, through the rowdyism or a frontier town. the rudeness of from tier society the discoura cement of early bankruptcy. and the fluctuations of popular politics,--he rose to the championship of union and freedom.
 --o. & Warden.
 
 was a triumph for thst good sense of mankind and of the public conscience. A heroic figure in the center af an heroic epoch, he is the true history of the American people in his tlme--the true representative of this continent:-- father of his country, the pulse or twenty miliionG throbbing iE his heart. the thoughts of their minds artsculated by his tongue.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Declaration of Independence was his political chart and inspira" tion. Yielding and accommodating in | non essentials, he was infiexibly firm | in a principle or position deliberately taken. Architect of his own for- tunes, rising with every opportunity. mastering every emergency. fulfilling every duty, he not only proved him self pre- erninently the man of the Incur. but the signal benefaetor of all pesterity,
 With all his disappointments from failures on the part Of those to wnoI The had intrusted commands, and Itreaohery on the part of those who had won his confidence only to betray it II never heard him utter complaint nor cast censure for bad conduct ol bad faith. It was his nature to finc Iexcuses for his adversafles. Tn DIS death the nation lost it's greatest hero land the South her Justest- friend.
 Ulysses 5. Grant. My Captain does not answer, his lip:
 are pale and still.
 My father does not feel my arm, h'
 has no pulse nor will,
 IThe ship is anchored safe and sound
 its voyage closed and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comei in with object won;
 Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells
 But I. with mournful tread.
 Walk the deck my Captain lies.
 Fallen, cold and dead. Walt Whitman.