The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-02-15

people His great and tender heart |
,hrank from giving pain, and the task
allotted him was to pour out like wa
ter the lifeblood of the young men |
and to feel in his every fiber the sor-
row of the women. Disaster saddened |
but never diSmayed him. Triumph was |
his at the last and barely had he taSt |
ed it before murder found him, and the
the kindly, patient, fearless eyes We're
closed forever.
Lincoln and Washington.
AS a people we are indeed beyond
measure fortunate in the characters of
the two greatest of our public men,
Washington and Lincoln. They were
alike in essentials-they were alike in
the great qualities which rendered each
able to render service to his nation
and to all mankind such as no other
man of his generation could or did
render There have been other men as
great and other men as good, but in
all the history of mankind there are
no other two great men as good as
these. no other two good men as great.
Widely though the problems of today
differ from the problems set for solu-
ton to Washington when he founded
this nation. to Lincoln when he saved
1t and freed the slave, yet the qualities
they showed in meeting these prob
lens are exactly the same as those we
should show in doing our work today.
Lincoln saw into the future with the
prophetic Imagination usually vouch-
safed only to the poet and the seer.
He had in him all the lift toward
greatness of the visionary, without
any Of the visionary's fanaticism or
egotism, without any Of the vision
ary's narrow jealousy of the practical
man and inability to strive in prac
teal fashion for the realization of an
ideal. No more practical man ever liv-
ed than this homely backwoods ideal
list, but he had nothing in common with
those practical men whose consciences
are warped until they fail to distin-
| guish between good and evil, fall to
understand that strength, ability,
shrewdness whether in the world of
business or of politics, only serve to
make their possessor more noxious
more evil member of the cOmmuni,
ty, if they are not guided and cen
LincoIn's Qualities Needed Now.
We of this day must try to solve
many social and Industrial problems
requiring to an especial degree the
combination of indomitable resolution
with cool headed sanity. We can prof
by the way in which Lincoln used boil
these traits as he strove for reform
We can learn much of value from the
very attacks which following tina
course brought upon his head, attacks
alike by the extremists of revolution
and by the extremists of reaction II,
never wavered in devotion to his prin
ciples, in his love for the Union and il
his adherence Of slavery Timid am
ing him because he was too extreme
but, as matter of fact, he never Wen
to extremes.
Yet perhaps the most wonderfu
thing Of all and, from the standpoin
Of the America Of today and of tn
future, the most vitality important wa
the extraordinary way in which Lii
coin could fight valiantly agains
what he deemed wrong ard yet pre-
serve undiminished his love and II
spect for the brother from whom b
differed. In the hour of a trump
that would have turned any weake
; mans head, in the heat Of struggl
which spurred many a good man t
dreadful vindictiveness, he said trutl
fully that so long as he had been /
his office he had never willingly plan
ed thorn in any mans bosom an
besought his supporters to study til
incidents of the trial through whic
they were passing as philosophy frol
which to learn wisdom and not g
wrongs to be avenged, ending wit
the solemn exhortation that, as tt
a common effort to save their commo
!" country.
"Mightiest of Americans"
! He lived in days that were gres
s and terrible, when brother fougt
, against brother for what each SINGER
: ~ deemed to be the right, in a CO,
: test SO grim the strong men who alor
: can carry it through are rarely able I
J. do justice to the deep convictions
+ those with whom they grapple in mo
b tai strife. At such times men Sc
h through a glass darby. To only tt
: rarest and loftiest spirits is voucl
safed that clear vision which gradual
:. comes to all, even to the lesser, as tt
g struggle fades into distance an
Il wounds are forgotten and peace creeI
O back to the hearts that were hurt b
; to Lincoln was given this supreme v
sion. He did not hate the man fro
whom he differed. Weakness was
:. foreign as wickedness to his stron
- gentle nature But his courage was
. quality so high that it needed
= bolstering of dark passion. He sa
=, clearly that the same high qualitie
the same courage and willingness f
~ self sacrifice and devotion to the rig
as 1t was given them to see the rigt
. belonged both to the men Of the nor
- and to the men Of the scuth. AS Il
- years roll by and as oil Of us, whe
. ever we dwell, grow to feel an equ
pride in the valor and self devotio
: alike of the men who wore the bl,
e and the men who wore the gray,
e. this whole nation will grow to feel
g peculiar sense Of pride in the mightie
1t Of the mighty men who mastered t
It mighty days, the lover Of his count
E. and Of all mankind, the man who
r blood was shed for the union Of /
ID people and for the freedom of a raz
" Abraham Lincoln.
70 Ex-Gov. Glenn In Augusta.
4 Augusta, Ga. Special, 10th
= Former Governor Robert