Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-02-14
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If inward grief glistened in every eye
Business, pleasure, commerce and
rade stood still to do him raverentia
tonnage, demonstrating the fact that
here has been no era in human his
ory or the construction of national
life worthy of more note than those
episodes which embrace the lives and
he deaths of martyrs, heroes and
patriots.
Grand were the mausoleums erected
W the ancients to commemorate the
hivalrOuS deeds performed by their
heroic sons The monuments that
,dorn the soil of France in tribute to
he great Napoleon are grand, but
yrander far in the hearts of the most
oyal people on the face of Gods green
arth is the love for the memory of
lincoln, and which will remain un-
limmed while there is yet light enough
rom any star. to read shining
pitaph. No one bullet ever went
orth on a more gigantic, terrible mis-
ion, or inflicted 50 crushing a blow to
friends and foes alike as did the lead
n missile that silenced forever the
generous heart-beating Of Abraham
lincoln.
Forty four spring times have come
md gone since the nation was robed
mourning and shrouded in gloom
md sorrow for the loss Of Lincoln;
,ut immortal history shall bear wit
,ess that he has lived, and that neither
ife nor death, nor any principality
or power shall be able to separate us
nd our glorious institutions from the
influence of his sublime character.
Therefore. such a man cannot die. He
vas born to mission and that mis-
sion gave to his life directness, sim
plicity, Conference, unity, inspiration,
grandeur, victory. completeness. He
ives today with the men who sought
o ennoble man and will live as long
as men believe in truth. loyalty and
GOODNESS, and frown upon falsehood,
treason and crime.
The record of our martyred Presi-
dent is in Heaven and is craven on
the hearts of every loyal American
with the pen of Immortality. No hu-
nan eulogy can enhance his glory; no
allure to do him justice can lessen it.
n the lesson of his life, we see an
everlasting encouragement and pledge
II victory to all the noble, honored and
heroic. Embalmed in the affections of
4 grateful and loyal people, his cher
ished memory and the remembrance of
his self-sacrifice for the honor of his
and his thorough self-conse-
Grafton to high and holy duty will sur
vive ali the barriers of time and sur
mount all the battlements of oblivion.
His whole life laid bare to the gaze
of the world shows not single de-
Walton from the narrow path OF recti-
tude and honor His moral projections
place him beside the best of men that
have ever lived.
The glorious life of Lincoln should
never be forgotten by the soldiers and
ailors of his Army and Navy. Their
period of service was his almost to
Jay, and now, after almost a half CEN
-ury they receive a new impulse of
patriotism when his honored name is
spoken. And not only reunited coun-
try, but the G. A. R.. is his especial
for the birth of that order
1ates back TO almost the first ami
Versary of his death. But a remnant
1f that Army and Navy live today and
hey are rapidly approaching their Ap-
The roll call of Lincolns
inidiers and sailors win soon receive
al response. Nearly every o1le Of the
sreat leaders who We're marshalled bys
i'm have nasSed to that mystif. shore.