Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-12
Lincoln the Emaneipator.
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If we pick up an American history
| we see engraved on it's choicest pages
\ the name of Abraham Lincoln. What
4 were the traits of this lean, angular,
1 yellow-faced man that made him the
! best loved president and the greatest
l orator of his time? He was a plain,
| honest and everyday man, who trusted
| in the people and in turn was trusted
by the people. Lincoln believed with
| all the strength of his mighty soul in
| the institutions of his country and
also in the injustice of slavery. When
| the crisis came Lincoln, although by
| nature peaceful, threw himself heart
and soul into the grand cause. He
was a true type of the self-made
American. Born in poverty and
squalor Lincoln overcame almost in
surmountable obstacles, and when only
boy learned to read and cipher to
| think and declaim in a manner far
| beyond his years Misfortune only
spurred him on to further effort. and
although Lincoln might have only one
dollar and no prospect of getting more,
he would struggle on, and finally won
| the mastery of English, surveying and
the law.
Where did Lincoln master that grand
eloquence that enabled him to sway
strong minds like reeds in a breeze g?
Only in the rough school of expert
ence.
When the great crisis of our country
came he did not hesitate, but tried
with all his might to force the REBEL
ing states back to their original places
in the union, as he believed in the
right Of his country to do this. Well
did he succeed, for generation upon
generation Of people will bless the
hand that broke slavery's bonds for
ever.
He expressed these same thoughts in
that immortal Gettysburg address,
when he said that all men, both
black and white, were created equal,
and that the government of the peo-
pie, by the people would not perish"
and so elOquently did he speak that
men, roughened by fighting, were
moved, and Lincoln, ''the uneducated
farmer" with all the simplicity of the
Bible made these words stana out i'm
mortally as the result of American
perseverance and pluck
When finally the end came. Lincoln
received his chastened countrymen
with such mercy and respect that all
marveled. The result was that the
seeding states were again established
in their original places in the union
and a more perfect confederation was
established without slavery within its
borders.
In the annals Of our country the
names of Lincoln and Washington
stand SIDE by side as the two great
est Americans that our country has
ever produced. Washington's name is
associated with the freeing of a Gown
trodden people and the establishment
Of our union. Lincoln's is linked with
freeing from bondage of a people
whose only fault was their color and
the reconstruction of that same union
which Washington had tried so hard to
establish and perfect
Washington was rich. had a good
education and a large experience in
governing countries in their critical
periods Lincoln was poor, had com
paratively little education and small
experience in governing men, let alone
countries. Yet when the crisis came
Lincoln managed the country so well
that made him the equal, if not the
superior. in craftsmanship, to Wash
ington.
Lincoln died as he lived pure and
simple, and his example will forever
remain a shining light for every true
American TO initiate