Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1910-02-10
Il ~ T IS sober truth to say
- that Abraham Lincoln
~ struck the nohlest,
Mf5N highest, HOLES. note In
the inmost native soul
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EUSl struck the nohlest
M55N highest, HOLES. note In
the inmost native soul
r7".'-'-' - Of the American people, \
~ the new paganism of commerce.; q
~ money getting matter how:
~ criticism of public men who,
Whntever their faults, are to be
eoyod because they have been hated
~ those who seek to make the ma. NV
0on sinister and corrupt there is Nm
aotning 90 sodden anc sordid but m
NlH ~ some sense uncover and "A
1neoI ot the sound Of the name of
Abraham Lincoln. H|
The average American does not II
shout when he hears the name of ] e
Abraham Lincoln. Even the politi.
cal demagogue. the stock gambler.
the captain Of industry. is likely to
grow silent and reverential when
the name of Lincoln is spoken
Ana while we are getting ready to honor
Lincoln 1t Is well to add that none NAV I'M
derstand his people who has not FIRST discov-
cred what 1t Is in his character and in ours
that makes us love him above comparison in
me story OF the worlds great men-lovs
him for his poverty his simplicity. for his hu.
mainly. for his fidelity for his Justice, for his
plainness, for his life and for his death.
Sneer force OF character must have been
me inherent trait which he had well cultivated
His attitude to women may have been but
IN incident. but there can be no question but
nat the influence Of various women with
whom 1t was his good fortune to be associ.
ated In his earlier days had not little to do
with the forming Of one of his most predomi.
nant traits. He was, In his later life one of
the Kind of men of whom good women declare
"a AL humility and honesty for their sex that
through the fneness of his perception and his
gentility toward everyone and everything, that
ne might have been a woman" 1t Is a high
compliment
In the first place, he was born Of a good
woman. Nancy Hanks. his mother, neglected
n the neglect of those of her social status at
the time she was born, must have In the sab
Unity OF maternity engendered In the life
blood OF her illustrious offspring the nourish-
ment that made the great achievements of
Abraham Lincoln possible. Yet to her is due
but the honor Of instillng. with her own blood,
her own spirit. the character that enabled
Abraham Lincoln to become the first Ameri-
can-the conglomerate OF all that IL meant
In the phrase 1.-THE lend of the free and the
home Of the brave"
Nancy Hanks gave Lincoln birth She was
the daughter Of supposedly illiterate and su-
perstitious people, but she was comely intelli.
rent knew how to read and write and taught
her husband Thomas Lincoln father Of the
president to scrawl his name
The great Lincoln always believed that he
~ his intelligence and powers from his
ncther.
ss The family moved from Kentucky to Indi-
IA when Lincoln was seven years old Two
arr later Nancy Hanks Lincoln succumbed
u \ psstilencs known - milk Sickness She
I'D In October. Her husband sawed q comm
ut of the forest trees and buried her In .
II |Rtle clearing. Several months later . wan
1ering frontier clergyman preached . sermon
ever her lonely grave. No wonder the coun-
lenance of the great emancipator moved al
no beheld It by it, deep melancholy He
naced his ONCE in the White House all night.
vfth white face and bowed head. sorrowing
aver the defeat of Charlottesville, wondering
whether he was to be the last president Of the
United States and praying for the victory that
came at Gettysburg. a.
All that year the sensitive boy grieved for
M mother who had gone out Of his life; but
e time the father went back to Kentucky,
ana IN Elixabethtown, near the big South Fork
~ Nolin creek, in Hardin county. where Lin
coln was born, he married the widow of the
Town taller Presently thereafter . four-horss
wagon creaked up to the door OF the Lincoln
cabin in the Indiana forest and young ABE"
r.de his first acquaintance with Sarah Bush
lincoln. who next to his own mother. was to
Aacome the second incentive of his youthful
life.
Sarah Bush Lincoln was a woman OF THRIFT
and energy, tall. straight, fair and kind
hearted motherly Christian. The American
neople owe debt to this noble matron. who
aid no much to influence and develop the char
acter Of the boy who was yet to save the