The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-13

again defeated for senator in 1858, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States in 1860.
 During all of these years the process of self-government had been going on. Out of unfavorable environments he had grown a rugged and inflexible hon. esty, an unswerving conscience, an un- daunted self-reliance and broad, vital charity for human frailties which char acterized his whole career.
 When he was inaugurated on March 4, yS61, what a future confronted him! Seven of the southern states had al- ready voted to secede; four more states quickly followed; four more were de- cidedly hostile, although they passed no formal ordinance of secession. Nineteen states were loyal but had many seces- sionists in their midst. Jefferson Davis had already (February IS, 1S6I been inaugurated as president of the South ern Confectionery, All of the forts in the southern states excepting four were seized. All of the armories, arsenals, custom houses, postoffices and public property had been confscated, Many of the most efficient officers in the army and navy had resigned and were ar rayed with the enemy. The army and navy had been scattered and the re- sources of the nation deliberately crip- pied in anticipation of war.
 April IS, 1861 Fort Sumter was cap- tured, and on April 15 President Lin ao1n h This call was for 75,OO0 men to serve for three months, and was followed during the years 1861 to 1864 by eleven other calls, aggregating 2,S75,OOO men to serve during the war.
 Of this vast army and of the gigantic navy which was also accumulated President Lincoln was, by virtue of his office, the commander-in-c chief. And he
 was no mere figurehead in this great office. When General Scott showed that
 his inhrmities rendered him unfit to command the army he was retired and l General Mcclellan assigned to the com mand by order of the president. When | Mcclellan and the other generals seem ed to procrastinate they were ordered to commence a forward movement by a | certain date by order of the president. l When Major General Mcclellan did not succeed in winning victory he was su- | perseded by Major General Pope by or der of the president, When Pope was defeated and the army clamored again for Mcclellan, Pope was removed and Mcclellan again reinstated by order of the president. When Mcclellan was not successful he was relieved by Gen. eral Burnside by order of the president. | When General Burnside was not suc- | cessful and asked to be relieved he was | succeeded by General Hooker by order of the president. When General Hook CT was not successful he was relieved l by General Meade by order of the pres ident.
 | Down in the southwest one Ulysses S, Grant began to be mentioned. He made no complaints, he gave no excuses. he | did not clamor for reinforcements-he just took what he had to do with and went ahead and did things. He gained victory after victory. When he was checked in one direction he went around some other way and always got there. When some one else got into tight place Grant was sent to get him out. and he did it. When some one com | plained to President Lincoln that Grant got drunk the president promptly asked what kind of whiskey Grant used, as he wanted to send the same kind to all of his generals.
 Finally the president found that Grant was the man he had been looking for and praying for during all these