The copper era., 1909-02-18

"We of this day must try to solve many social and industrial problems, requiring to an especial degree the combination of indomitable resolu- tion with cool-headed sanitary. We can profit by the way in which Lin coin used both these traits as he stroye for reform. We can learn much of value from the very attacks which following that course brought upon his head, attacks alike by the extremists of revolution and by the extremists of reaction. He never wavered in devotion to his principles, in his love for the union, and in his abhorrence of slavery. Timid and lukewarm people were always de- nouncing him because he was too ex- treme; but as d matter of fact he never went to extremes, he worked step by step: and because of this the extremists hated and denounced him with a fervor which now seems to Us fantastic in its edification of the un- real and the impossible. At the very time when one side was holding him up as the apostle of social revo- lutiOn because he was against slavery, the leading abolitionists denounced him as the "slaye hound of Illinois. :" date for president, the majority of his opponents attacked him because of what they termed his extreme radicalfsm, while a minority threat ened to bolt his nomination because he was not radical enough. He had continually 70 check those who wish ed to go forward too fast, at the very time that he over-rode the opposition of those who wished not to go for ward at all. The goal was never dim before his vision: but he picked his way cautiously, without either halt or hurry, as he strode toward it, through such a morass of difficulty that no man of less courage would have attempted it, while it surely would have overwhelmed any man of | judgement less serene.
 "Yet perhaps the most wonderful thing of all, and, from the standpoint future, the most vitally important, was the extraordinary way in which Lincoln could fight valiantly against what he deemed wrong and yet pre- serve undiminished his love and re- spect for the brother from whom he differed. In the hour of triumph that would have turned any weaker mans head, in the heat of a struggle which spurred many a good man to dreadful vindictiveness, he said truthfully that so long as he had been | in his office he had never willingly planted a thorn in any mans bosom, and besought his supporters to study | the incidents of the trial through which they were passing as philoso. | phy from which to learn wisdom and not as wrongs to be avenged; ending with the solemn eXhortation that, as the strife was over, all should re unite in a common effort to save their common country.
 "He lived in days that were great and terrible, when brother fought against brother for what each sin, cerely deemed to be the right. In a contest so grim the strong men who alone can carry it through are rarely able to do justice to the deep conyic' tions of those with whom they grap
 pie in mortal strife. At such time. men see through glass dsrkly: tC only the rarest and loftiest spirits i: vouchsafed that clear vision which | gradually come to all, even to the lesser, as the struggle fades into dis tance, and wounds are forgotten, anC peace creeps back to the hearts that were hurt. But to Lincoln was giver l this supreme vision. He did not hate the man from whom he differed
 Weakness was as foreign as wicked. ness to his strong, gentle nature: but | his courage was of a quality so high | that it needed no bolStering of dark passion. He saw clearly that the same high qualities, the same COur- l az ciuu WILLIE uCSS 1Ol oCl1-SclOl lhOCi and devotion to the right as it was given them to see the right, belonged both to the men of the rth and to the men of the south. As the years roll by, and. as all of us, wherever we dwell, grow to feel an equal pride in the valor and self-devotion, alike of the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray, so this whole nation will grow to fell a peculiar sense of pride in the mightiest of the mighty men who mastered the mighty days; the lover of his coun- try and of all mankind; the man whose blood was shed for the union of his people and for the freedom of a race, Abraham Lincoln"
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 Col. Epes Randolph, head of the IIa rriru n lines in AriZOna and Mey-