The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-18

at any moment of great success by
Grant, who has been pegging away at
Vicksburg for so many months. By
tomorrow, you will hear that he has
won victory as important to us in
the West as Gettysburg is in the East. =
'Then turning to NE, he said,
SSickles I am in prophetic mood to-
day, and I know that you will get
we'll Y
The doctors do not give me that
hope, Mr.. President, [ said, but he
answered me cheerfully, I know yon
will get well Sickles.' y
The supreme mission of the Man of
Galilee was reflected in the subordin-
ate mission Of Abraham Lincoln. For
he could reverently say Of the Father
OF the human soul, He hath sent me
to bind up the broken hearted, to pro
claim deliverances to the captives and
the opening of the prison to them
that are bound -
The most exquisite tribute to his
glorious attributes was the wreath at
his funeral sent from Boston by the
sister Of soldier boy he had pardoned
when condemned to death, for sleep
ing at his post. It was justly placed
directly above that heart so cruelty
stilled In death which beat only with
love to mankind
The very hem of Lincoln s garment
is now priceless relic. The out of
style hat he wore is regarded more
highly than the be-gemmed circlet
which bedecks monarch s brow. The
splinter from the rail he split is worthy
of the choicest adjoining Of richest
gold.
If Milton could aver, 'fScipio was
the height of Rome,'' we can aver
Lincoln was the height of America. y
With James Russell Lowell, we can
repeat
" Nature, they say, doth dote,
And cannot make man
Save on some worn out plan,
Repeating US by rote:
For him her Old World moulds aside
she threw,
And choosing sweet clay ferns the
Breast Of the exhausted West,
With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,
Wise, steadfast in the strength of God
and true
Great captains, with their guns and
drums,
Disturb our judgment for the hour,
But at last silence comes;
These all are gone, and, standing like
a tower,
Our children shall behold his fame,
The kindly earnest, brave, foreseeing
man,
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not
blame,
New birth Of our new soil, the first
American -
And yet my comrades and compan-
ions, it was divinely ordained that
without the splendid galaxy of military
and naval heroes that gathered about
him, whom you represent, his unique
position could not have been attained,
nor his immortal work been performed.
His pen wrote the Emancipation Pro-
clamation, but the swords of Grant,
la Sherman, Sheridan, Logan.
Thomas and other great leaders, with
the mighty host Of the boys In blue,
rewrote it, their cannon Numbered it,
their musketry echoed it, their bayo-
nets punctuated it, and Appomattox
put the final, lrrevocable "Amen'' of
God and Man upon it.
But great as some of these men were,
matchless as each of them was in his
own sphere, they were but the superb
setting Of that priceless jewel in Am
erica s keeping, the man she will ever
love and revere-Abraham Lincoln.
He still lives. For him all doors
are flung wide; Him still all tongues
greet, and honors crown; All eyes fol-
low with desire0
Through God s good providence, he
made the old prophecy of Ancient Is
rael true Of our own nation "Thou
shalt also be a crown of glory in the
hand Of the Lord and Royal diadem
in the hand Of Thy God"
Kentucky gave Lincoln birth, and
Graded him in her arms. Indiana. led
him up in early manhood, and Illinois
then threw open to him every avenue
to honor and Immortality. Illinoisans
may then be pardoned for singing:
Not without thy wondrous story
Illinois, Illinois,
Could be writ the Nation s glory,
Illinois, Illinois -
But we know, that without the won
drous story Of every loyal state Of our
undivided and indivisible Union, we
could not truthfully apostrophize to-
night our peerless, beloved, country
and say:
Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,
The queen of the world and the child
of the skies.
The time is coming when some police
man is going to have better luck with
his pistol practice and some burglar