The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-27
LIN G. O L N
T H E M A N OF Pc A c E
By GENERAL HORACE PORTER

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 bis convictions. He
never had occasion TO look to the past
with regret, nor 70 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 the 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
single laurel from his brow, no one can
lessen the measure of lis fame. Mar
velous mani In the annals OF ali 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 q
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 yet
who died more heroic death.
| It has seldom fallen to the lot of man
| to strike the shaclies from the limbs OF
bondmen and Lberate a race It has
seldom fallen to the lot of man to die
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.
al celebrated sculptor in the fourteenth
| century IN Florence was commanded to
make a colossal statue, which was TO
surmo1nt a historic cathedral. When
il was placed at the base of the cathe-
dral, the ropes arranged for hosting It
and it was there unveiled, the crowd
jeered and hooted and criticized unmer-
cifully the sculptor. IT was all out oil
proportion; il was a 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 propei
! focal distance as intended by the great
sculptor, who created il, the sheer:
S turned to plaudits, and the people Their
saw it in all the beauty Of its trus
proportions.
} And 50 Abraham Lincoln has so fal
! receded from US in history that he i
5 now in the proper focal distance We
e can now measure all his great qualities
as they appear in their true beauty and
symmetry.
am glad of the work of The Lincoln
Farm Association 1t is well that his
, birthplace should be redeemed from IN
dividual ownership. 1t should be made
the repository OF all the interesting relic:
! connected with him Il ought to be the
seat OF 4 national museum and nationa
p park
: He IS grne from Us now, crowned
/, with the subiuity Of martyrdom. w,
4 have hidden a last farewell TO him WIZ
{ was the gentlest OF all spirits. mobiles
Of all hearts, liberator Of a race. saviol
j of Republic, martyr. whose sepulchs
t is human hearts