The Newtown bee., 1907-02-22

must accept on. the same basis of ap-
prevail, which obtained to increase the
admira tion and loyalty of his friends.
We are agreed then, this morning, that
we want the essence Of the truth and
that we shall not be unduly biased by
proximity to events and men that fur
nish US subjects, though they are I'M
portant, to historians and to US.
We of the younger generation look
back now and wonder, sometimes. how
it was that there could have been
SUCH AN UPHEAvAL AS WAS OUR CIVIL
WAR.
We read in histories that the slave
trade was so important and that the
conditions and tendencies of slave
traffic SO potent that to make ADJUST
in the North was impossible. Yet we
can with difficulty imagine what to
our fathers and grandfathers was an
awful reality a nation of brothers t
war. We look back still farther to
times before the Civil War and we are
amazed that our nation should have
sprung SO large and so important from
so small beginnings. There is destiny
in the affairs OF men, and surely in
reference to us destiny Is kind. Our
first settlers came from Over-populated
Europe at time OF extremes, when
much of the dissolute or the stern.
There was however regenerating
power in this land, for all who came
| to it seemed to be moulded to health
fulneSs and good endeavor. L am
speaking in general now; OF course we
| had many here who committed crimes
and who we're an impeachment to our
growth. It will be 80 in the best of
countries. / want to say that the set
tiers first to come found conditions
which made them to be in general in
dustrious, sturdy and wholesome, and
these first settlers, like the cOlOnists
| in Virginia, becoming Opulent, as it
were handed on through emigrants
from their own number the same stur-
diness and the same need for endeavor.
The vast extent of our country has
been the means OF keeping large por-
tion of our people strong and energet-
ic, and these staying in the newly
broken regions or conosA9tc the more
settlsu east were source of power.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS BORN
on the then frontier and during the
first years Of his life was kept in the
front by the constant migratiOnS west
ward of his family. The, attractions
of government land has always been
the mother of a peculiar kind of
the shiftless have found IN the march
Of events westward a means Of adven-
ture or the hope of Improvement.
Lincoln is the result of his fathers
shiftlessness and Of the genius of the
frontier. The rough days OF anti
slavery on the plains produced many
stalwart pioneer and one of these
was Abraham Lincoln. Almost mirac-
ulously he took all Of the sweet and
left the bitter. He profile by all the
all the offensive crudities. Ee was the
tall and awkward schoolmaster, the
Ichabod Crane of Sleepy Hollow, the
numbering backwoods-man OF many
ready of act6al life and actual expert
ence of westerD life; but somehow he
was these and yet these transformed
into man of worth the like of whom
Is rarely found. Lincoln is the carica-
ture of the worst physical type of AM.
He is the embodiment of the traits
and peculiarities of our now classic
"Uncle Sam, and as we may be moved
to laughter over his appearance, we
have come to esteem him SO highly
that we do not look at the form but at
the character "Uncle SAM repre-
sents the typical American who found
ed this nation, and this nation is now
on level to command the respect of
citizen and also OF foreigner. Abraham
Lincoln was so Stalwart, talented and
aGOOd that he, like beneficent nation,
takes attention from his appearance
ties in our land before the Civil war,
especially in our frontier DISTRICTS
there were also many refinementS and
possibilities in embryo, which born
and growing to maturity were to make
what had been of culture seem puny!
Abraham Lincoln was the result and
the expression Of the best genius OF
our vigorous and progressive country.
He was of the pioneers and he came to
be a pioneer! None of his acQuain-
itances were daunted by obstacles, by
poverty or dangers, they were self-suf
'hcient, and had to be equal to the
emergency. Lincoln could not be over
come, for he had succeeded in existing
and because he need not fear necessi-
ties nor harm to his person he was
equal to herculean tasks! Adversely
has killed millions Of people, but 1T has
also created the greatest men. Lin
coin was one of these great men and
the study of his life is most interesting
because it is the study of an intense
struggle, but "a struggle THAT always
found the important contestant stron-
ger, that at last, and really that in a
short time, educated, developed and
fitted him for the highest position in
the land; this very struggle, that
might have killed the average man,
made Lincoln famous.
Abraham Lincoln :was born, Febru-
airy IL, 1909, in a mere hut, three miles
from Hodgensville, KY.
ABRAHAM g FATHER WAS THOMAS LIN
COLIN,
a fair sample OF what might be called
to-day the white trash of the middle
west. Abraham 8 mother was Nancy
Hanks, who possessed the unusual &C
complishment of reading and writing,
and we are told she taught her hus-
band how to write his name. Thomas
was shiftless and this lack
made it that his wife came to be not
unlike many Of the untidy, irrespon-
sible frontier women, and this falling on |
the part of both was the cause of the |
surroundings for the 18th
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