The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-03-12
E Lights on d Irans(endent Character, So Great
but NOT 80 Little Understood

|e Is no name In American his
revered by the people as that
hham Lincoln. He was great
kas face to face with condi-
(which required greatness of
|er to comprehend, and great
We ability to meet. He may
I'D his faults, we presume he
would not have been human
not, but he impressed those
|hom he came in contact that
dependent upon a greater
than his individual efforts to
he great national problems
bhich he was confronted. 1t
not how much Of an effort
made by writer's to bring his
er down to the common plane
anity, yet he will be given a
place in the memory of his
nen as the years 20 by.
es leaving to the people a
country he left great politi-
anization, which was brought
eing by the conditions of the
And why the present day
of this political party should
minimize his efforts, destroy
Learned laurels and degrade
acter to that Of the ordinary
In is beyond the comprehen-
(he finite mind. 1t will occur
ordinary mind that the great
hich Lincoln left to the eoun.
bo far left the moorings which
blished that comparisons are
The analysis of his charac-
be other paper last week is a
Il to Editor Abbott, a scandal
character of Lincoln and q
to the party whose tenents
hes to advocate.
(aking of the character OF this
nm Editor Abbott says, "He
prude. or little Saint Barthol-
but he vas transcendently and
ch a man. There is enough
Tor econium 10 this utteracue,
attributing to the lamented
the nonsense which one reads
Is. ~ In another place Editor
Bays, 1.-THE poor and humble
ator being gone, his eulogists
can mkae of him an abolli-
q moral reformer. a prohibit
10 anti-gambler, a crank or a
II anything else which he was
suit the speakers fancy" +"
finally winds up the article,
an insult to the intelligence
eople with this statement,
does not appear that the
base of the question ever
him. "
5 compare some of the utter
Abraham Lincoln with some
tatements of Editor Abbott.
be great emancipation was a
e for the presidency in 1866
ting TO the ministers of the
ho were against MIN he said,
/ am right, for Christ teach
ID Christ is God. | have told
bat house divided against it.
bot stand, and Christ and
Ry the same; and they will
so. . - II may not see
but it will come. and ! shall
Gated, and these men will fnd
" haven { read their Bibles
He was profoundly cont.
being OF Gods side in these
atters OF slavery and the
E OF the republic.
leaving his home TO accept
Bidency, in an address to his
Is he said, "lle" (Washipg
ever would have succeeded
for the aid Of Divine provi
npon which he at all time:
i feel that | cannot succeed
the same Divine aid whicI
b him, ana on the same AL
Being | place my reliance TO
and hope you, my friends
BY that 1 may receive tba
assistance. +" When urged Il
late the slaves by a bo5y o
en, he said: Whatever shal
- be Gods will | will do.
2 Presiden Lincoln called
Of his cabinet aud discusse,
clamation to free the slaves
y importuued TO defer its Is
until later, he replied, 81
solemn vow before God tba
fal Lee should Re driven bacI
pennsylvania | would crow
IL by a declaration OF the free
the slaves. F" We could 90 o
from the utteranees OF th
p president, shOsing hi
faith in his God; and tha
Jed to the Supreme Ruler i
portant act OF his daily Iifs
fear TO tire the reader. Ih
Lincoln shows beyond eh
of doubt that be was nc
barry man. tut was the instr
the hands of a Divine inte
H. relieve the world Of one {
rest curses with which it WI
His entire lire. especial
ater years, does prove "ths
pal phase Of tire question ey,
him