The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-02-17

| WuCHi alOue IL originates, Will never
suffer the exercise of 1t to be prac
ticed upon any less solid foundation
than the power itself. II. then, al
dominion of man over man is the eff.
feet of the divine disposition. it ii
bound by the eternal laws Of him thai
gave it, which no human authority
can dispense; neither he that exer
cises it, nor those who are subject
to it.; and If they were mad enough
to make an express contract that
should release their magistrate from
his duty, and should declare thei,
lives, liberties and properties Deepen
dent upon, not rules ana laws, but his
mere capricious will, that covenant
would be void. The acceptor of it
has not his authority increased, but
he has his crime doubled"
Further on, in the same speech. he
says: -
Name me magistrate, and will
name property; name me power, and
will name protection. 1t is a con-
tradiction in terms: it is blasphemy
in religion; it is wickednase in poll
tics. to say that any.s man: can have
arbitrary power ," 'In every patent
of Office the duty is incisded. For
what else does magistrate exist?
TO suppose for power is an absurd.
ity in idea. Judges are guided and
governed by the eternal laws of JUS
tice to which We are all subject"
And Lincoln believed, as all intel
igent people at this time believe,
that these principles annunuciated by
Burke existed and will continue to ex-
list independent Of any rules or laws
man made; and that man-made rules
and laws could not legitimately b.
made or rightfully exist that contra
vene the tremendous principles there
laid down. The principles existed
not because they were annunciated,
but were annunciated because they
first existed.
The sentiment that always drove
Lincoln into action has been admir-
ably put to words by Edwin Mark
ham:
Keep heart, o comrade; God may be
delayed
By evil, but he suffers no defeat;
Even as a chance rock in an upland
brook
May change rivers course, and yet
no rock
No, nor the battling mountains of the
world
Can no it from its destiny, the sea,
God is not foiled; the drift of the
World Will
Is stronger than all wrong. Earth
and her years,
Down joys bright way or sorrows
longer road,
Are moving toward the purpose Of the
SKIES
This faith was a tower Of strength
to him in his campaign against slav-
cry. His faith and purpose were and
now are justified and accomplished
in nearly all of the civilized word, so
far as chattel slavery is concerned. =.
Lincoln believed with Burke that
arbitrary power is wrong in itself,
and foresaw with almost prophetic
vision the overthrow of slavery be-
causes.ot the. inherent wrong: upon
which the system YVES based.
AsA good; examples. Of the two ways
Of going at things both, highly devel.
opedi: in, Lincoln, compare his fare
we'll speech, when he was leaving his
home town., Springfield: Illinois, for
Washington. after his first election to
the presidency, and his talk to the
politicians with him on the Journey to
Washington. afterwards; when bid
ding good-by to- his home people he
sad: my friends, no one not in my
situation, can appreciate my feeling
| Of sadness at this parting, to this
ACE, and the kindness Of these PEG.
pie, owe. everything. Here I have
lived a quarter of century, and have
passeu from young to an old man
Here my children have been borr
and one is buried. now leave, moi
knowing when or whether ever
may return, with task before me
greater than that which rested upor
Washington. Without the assistance
of that Divine Beng who ever at
tened him, cannot succeed. Will
that assistance 1~cannot fail. Trust
ing in Him who can go with me, ant
remain with you, and be everywhere
! for good, let us confidently hope tina
all will yet be'weH. To this car
commencing you, as 1 hope in you
prayers you will commend me, bl
you an affectionate farewell"
The above shows admirably his en-
tire frankness with his own peopl
and the simple dignity, eloquence an
pathos of which he was not only cal
able, but which was a part Of hi
very nature. ~
J. Compare that.with the+eonversatio
ION the train with the politicians
his party when the subject OF tt
reconciliation of the Democrats
: the north and Of the south was urge
> upon him az worthy Of his most Sc
(ious efforts in looking to q settl
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