The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-02-12

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EH4 SyaS highest hottest note In
99yS SyksyS the inmost native soul :
<a2sslUXHAl Of the American people =
In the new paganism Of commerce; -
of money getting, no matter how;
of criticism Of public men who, 4
whatever their faults, are to be \&a
loved because they have been hated W.
by those who seek to make the ma "
ton sinister and corrupt there ia NV
nothing so sodden and sordid but IN
will In some sense uncover and c0
lneel at the sound of the name Of NIX
Abraham Lincoln. II
The average American does not
shout when he hears the name OF
Abraham Lincoln. Even the polit
cal demagogue, the stock gambler.
the captain of industry. IS likely to
grow silent and reverential when
the name of Lincoln is spoken
And while We are getting ready to honor
Lincoln It is well to add that none may un.
Ccrsand his people who has not first discov.
cred what it Is in his character and in ours
that makes us love him above comparison IN
the story of the worlds great men--loye
him for his poverty. his simplicity, for his hui.
manity, for his fidelity. for his Justice for his
plainness for his life and for his death.
Sheer force of character must have been
the inherent trait which he had well cultivated
His attitude to women may have been but
an incident, but there can be no question but
that the influence Of various women with
whom II his good fortune to be associ.
ated in his earlier days had not a 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
in all humility and honesty for their sex, that
through the Hnencss Of his perception and his
gentiliy toward everyone and everything, that
he might have lcen n woman" It Is a high
compliment
In the first place, he was born of good
woman Nancy Hanks, his mother. neglected
I'm the neglect OF those of her social status ut
the time she was born. must have in the sub.
Unity of maternity onGendercd in the life
blood of her illustrous offspring the noursh-
ment that made the great achievements OF
Abraham Lincoln possible Yet, to her is due
but the honor Of Installing with her own blood.
her own spirit, the character that enabled
Abraham Lincoln to become the first Ameri.
can-tho conglomerate of all that is meant
In the phrase, the land Of the free and the
home Of the brave"
Nancy Hanks gave Lincoln birth She was
the daughter of supposedly iliterate and su.
pcrstitious people, bpt she Fas cOmely, ntolli
gent. knew how to read and write and taught
her husband Thomas Lincoln, father OF the
The great Lincoln always believed that he
got his intelligence and powers from his
mother
The family moved from Kentu- Ky TO Indi.
ann when Lincoln was seye2 years Old Two
years later Nancy Hanks Liacoln srrcumbed
70 a nestfence known as milk siCkness She
died In October. Her husband sawed & coffin
ont of the forest trees and buried her 'n 4
Iittle clearing Several months later a wan.
dering frontier clergyman preached a sermnn
oyer her lonely grave. No wonder the Coua.
tenance of the great emancipation moved Nll
who beheld 1t by its deep melancholy lie
lpow what sorrow was 45 years before Ne
naced his office in the White House all night
with white face and bowed head, sorrowirg
over the defeat of charlottesville, wondering
whetber he was to be the last president Of the
United States and praying for the victory that
came at Gettysburg
All that year the sensitive boy griered for
+ba mother who had gone out OF his life; but
4, time the father went back TO Kentucky,
and in Elizabethtown. near the big South Fork
- No1in creek. in Hardin county where Lin.
oo,, was born. he married the widow of the
town taller Presently thereafter a fourhorse
waeon creaked up to the door OF the Lincoln
chin in the Indiana forest and young Abe
odo his FIRST acquaintance with Sarah Bush
Iinco,n who. next TO his own mother, was to
hacome the second incentive of his youthful
life.
Sarah Bush Lincoln was a woman OF thrift
ia energy. tall straight. fair and kind
hearted motherly Christian. The American
.,oonle owe debt to this noble matron, who
dfo 90 much to influence and develop the char
ae,ay Of the boy who was yet TO saw las