Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-05-14

to strains of sadness There was the
slaughter in the field, the depletion Of
the Treasury, complications which arose.
All these were so appalling that some
times even the great soul of Lincoln
seemed ready to melt. But just when
the gloom was blacklist he never, never
took counsel of his fears He always
had the courage Of his convictions. He
never had occasion to look to the past
with regret, nor to the future with APP
prehension. He had that sublime faith
which is content to leave the efforts to.
man, the results to God
For ages after tie battle Of Their
mopyla every Greek school child was
taught to recite each day the names Of
the three hundred heroes who fell in the
defense of that pass. It would be a;
browning act OF patriotism if every
American school child could be taught
! each day to contemplate the exalted;
character and utter the inspiring name
OF Abraham Lincoln.
Singular mani No one can pluck; a,
4 single laurel from his brow, no one can
lessen the measure of his fame Mar
velous man In the annals of all his
tory we fail to find another whose life
had been so peaceful, whose nature so
gentle, and yet who was called upon to
marshal the hosts of an aroused people
and for four long years to conduct a
bloody, relentless, fratricidal war.
In the annals Of history we fail to-
find another whose education was that
of the Cabinet, not the camp, and vet
who died a more heroic death.
1t has seldom fallen to the lot Of man
to strike the shackles from the limbs Of
bondmen and iberate race. Ii has
seldom fallen to the lot Of man to die.
I the death of an honored martyr, with
his robes of Office still about him. his
heart at peace with his fellow men, his
soul at peace with his God, at the mo-
ment of the restoration of his country to
peace within her borders, to peace with
all the world. =
A celebrated sculptor in the fourteenth
century in Florence was commanded to
make a colossal statue, which was to-
Il surmount a historic cathedral. When
1 it was placed at the base Of the cathe-5
dral, the ropes arranged for hosting it.
and It was there. unveiled, the crowd.
jeered and hooted and criticized i11mer-l
cifully the sculptor tt was ali out Of
proportion; it was failure. But soon:
the ropes began to tighten, and as the
statue moved up into the air the crowd
ceased to jeer, and finally, when it was,
placed upon the pinnacle at the proper
focal distance as intended BY the great
sculptor, who created it, the sreers
turned to plaudits, and the people then
saw il in all the beauty of its true
proportions.
And SO Abraham Lincoln has SO far,
receded from Us in history that he is
& now in the proper focal distance We
can now measure all his great qualities
as they appear in their true beauty and
4 symmetry.
am glad Of the work Of The Lincoln
y Farm Association. i It is well that his
Z birthplace should be redeemed from in
! dividual ownership. It should be made,
the repository Of all the interesting relics
connected with hin. II ought I'd be the
seat OF national museum and a national
park. i.
s He is gone from lis now, crowned
with the sublimity Of rnartyrdon. We,
Z have hidden last farewell to him who
was the gentlest Of all spirits, noblest
of all hearts, liberator Of q race, savior
OF q Republic, martyr. whose sepuichre
is human hearts