The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-12
LINCOLN, THE PREsERvER.

Today. the anniversary of the birth
OF Lincoln. the presorver of the Re
public, has again rolled around with
the year, With every succeeding ami.
versarv. the fame of Lincoln rises hiph.
er and higher. 1t seemed indeed in Ger
tain periods Of the war that he would
have no fame at all He WAS much.
abused man. reviled bitterly by the
enemies of the Onion, and YET the abuse
was not all from them The factiou
which Mr., Greeley represented was at
times excessively abusive of Lincoln,
and so was the faction OF which Carl
| Schurz was the spokesman. The abuse
Of these eminent lovalists cuf Lincoln
to the quick, lie could bear with oanan-
unity any assaults OF the enemies Of
the Nation, but when loya men of
standing aud influence, with a devoted
following of undoubtedly loval persons,
asSalIed him, the result was discour-
agement and grief He found both
Greeley and Schurz so persistent in
then enmlty. so unsparng in their i'm
patient hostility. that he wrote them
letters which are models of scathinp
reproach. Carl Schurz, in his remin-
lscences. rccitcs almost everything that
occurred in his life, except his en-
counter with Lincoln. which is perhaps
nm indication that he was ashamed of
ms position when he antagonized the |
great President There is no evidence. |
however, that Greeley repentcd, and |
Greeley was a great power among
loyal men.
1t is certainly true that there was
an extremely vindictivc opposition to
Lincoln and there was a studied at
tempt TO refuse him the nomination for
the Presidency in 1850, but the great
loyal heart of the country rallied TO
him and carried him triumphant to his
Looking back over the wears. it seems
incredible that man of Lincoln S mild.
tolerant disposition should have been
atigmatized as dictator, tyrant
and an opprcssor, II seems incredible
hat the Union soldiers of the war
should have been termed as stigma.
Lincoln S hireIings,r a stigma, which
5 now more term of honor than
otherwise. II is singular that the war I
hou!d have turned so much upon the per
onallty of Lincoln, and that his name
hould have been used so generally and i
o constantly as synonymous with the {
National efforts TO preserve intact the i
jnion founded by the Fathers And |
ct so II was. Lincoln represented T
nd embodied in his person the tremcn. {
Gus struggle which was on for the {
reservation of the Union. More and
lorc it will become so, until Lincoln
1ll be placed, if he has not already
cen so placed in the estimation of the
eople, in the niche with Washington,
he founder OF the Nation, as the Ma. !
ION s Preserver. 0
We all do well to make his birthday
holiday, for the proper observance of :
ties and ceremonies in honor Of the p
nion and in the memory of his great IL
'rvice. As long as the Nation is worth II
reservation, the name of Lincoln will y
and almost at the top of those who IL
re honored and revered by the loyal 81
of the United States. And el
as popular government will u
ever die cut from the earth, and in the
nlted States must take its best and IL
form. the concrete example q
a Government by, of and for the CT
sople, the fame of Lincoln is SECURE Il
II all time. a