The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-02-17
LeSueur Makes -.
Noteworthy Address
PRESIDENT Of the Commission System Speaks to
II asLaree Audience at the M. e. Church
on Abraham Lincoln

Arthur sLeSueur, president OF thu
atty commission, gave a remarkably
STRONG address on Abraham Lincoln
; NE. greatest of American statesmen
! ut the Methodist church Sunday eve
aAnE. before a magnificent audience
!. a specially prepared musical program
lader. the direction of F. J. Wells
eas rendered. p
We produce Mr.. LeSueur's address
lin couapiete Dorm:
! IN the twelfth day of February
u. ~. 1909, was born a man, to my
nind the greatest man America has
ever yet produced. We are remem-
: barring today the anniversary of that
event. Why? Not because our ven
seration. fox the martyr president is
OF consequence to him now; but be-
cause Of the tremendous impetus Civ
| On to the principle Of human liberty
By this, the greatest American-Abra-
Aam Lincoln.
Many OF L:ncoln's biographers dwell
lpoa his apparently dual personality
~ salnething novel in human expert
exc&ss. hut this is not correct, for,
. while hinceln exercised, a. rare vein
a. hnsnor aud mixed. and mingled II
: wiah all o. the serious affairs of life
axaa where his position placed upon
uinf the burden of doing unpleasant
kpties that hurt personal friends-he
g.: 1~A still firm as Gibraiter for the
cizht. and had withal heart tender
:aor humanity as mothers, with a
stpra broad as the universe, and self
;Annying beyond human understand
jog
, But these characteristics OF Lincoln
zero not abnormal, but are common
n humanity at large-and to every
normal human being. We are all
creatures Of impulses, ideals and de-
that cskne to us from remote an
;. and came to the ancient faith
nj the race from-we know not
be.
EVery one OF these ideals. impulses
II desires are either good or bad; and
the personality Of no human being is
nade I'D entirely of one or the other.
The human personality is continually
,ss war with it's own being; for that
being is dual, and one side Of its ma
enre good and the other bad; and
she greatness of Lincoln consisted in
his <1eif-mastery, or the victory of
The good impulses natural to human
y. over the bad impu1ses-a part of
!. csts-y human beng.
). Lincoln was always friend of
Justice: and because Of the fact that
s1e always sought Justice in his own
saeart. was an exceptionally clear
shiakcr.
H. Al one time in the Lincoln-Douglas
!. debates. when the brilliant Douglas
had closed with a mastery plea for
IL right of the new territories to
!! come isto the Union slave or free,
a4siss hts elaim upon their right to
: govern themselves, Lincoln, in his
. characteristic method, shattered the
| sotire argument by agreeing with
0sagIas that the Inhabitants, of the
!: ssrritories had the, right of govern
gong shomse elves. But said he. I'VE
Is7a never concede their right to gov
4-n others without that others con-
sat- ~,
Men are all Influenced. more or less,
sccsrttiag to personality, By. their time
End enviEonment. Lincoln was no
sxeestion. The sHhcanscious hot
DIST G'ted his being, was, Slavery is
isEmar-A: Observation-Disclosures! &c.,,
HI Aefieved with Burke, the, great
1hxthsA 3urfst, that arbitrary power
;.A enc haman being over the destin-
a1as II Aaother was monstrosity in
i1anzsht lie believed and taught that
Sissfashius IS ever settled until 1t Is
I a..eissl right" that might never
RIaakeS right: that no matter how
!!YYhaary \ wrong may ,be-no matter
i,stow .ntrenehed in custom or habit
Il csuuos forever prevail against jus
I~tiee A.a truth. ..., .
:, +, 8uke, the English jurlst, laid dowr
sas 4tactr,ne Of the English law OF
.-tan question Of arbitrary power in hi
!: x-ras, : speech in defense of Warren
Hassings,, charged with treason, ii
III. IoGowing language, which is con
eesxaa to be the most logical and elc
a,asqs deuunciat On of arbitrary pow
= aypr: performed in the English lar
:: k.xa<e, He said: - 49,.
Z TIE have arbitrary power! M
\ herds. the East India company hay
{ zusyarhitrary power to give him; tn
{ ss1& has 10 arbitrary power to Civ
:: an. you Tordsh3ps have: not; no
! M. commons. nor the whole legisla
! asass. We have no arbitrary poWe
I d ssre. because arbitrary power is
shtex which neither any man ca
I sS4 ao- any man can give. No ma
e =aai 'awf,ulE, govern himself accor'
~, % ais o1!n. wiil; much less ca
II 1ra eerson be governed by the vi
I, n szseher: We are aal bern In sui
( ls4aa. all born equally, high ar
NM. governors and governed, In su
ati.iqA to, one great, 'tmmutable, pr
& SslzsE taM prior to all our device
xxsGpgisr@ TO all our contrivalnoee. pa
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