The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1911-11-16
PICKENs, S. c., NOVEMBER 16, 1911.

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men who wore the Confederate
gray. Not less than the North
therefore. has the South reason
: to canonize Lincoln; for he was
: the one friend we mad at court
| aside from Grant land Sherman
when friends were most in need.
If Lincoln had lived there
; would have been no Era of Re-
construction, with its mistaken
theories, repressive agences and
oppressive legislation. II Lincoln
had lived there would have been
: wanting to the extremism of the
time the bloody cue Of his tax.
ing off to mount the steeds and
spur the hanks Of vengeance.
For Lincoln entertained, with
respect to the rehabilitation,
of the Union, the single wish
that the Southern :States-to use
his homely phraseology-
should come back home and
; behave themselves and if he
had lived he would have made
this wish effectual as he made
everything effectual to which he
seriously addressed himself.
Poor, insane John Wilkes Booth!
Was he, too, all instrument in
the hands of God to Idt a still
deeper damnation upop the TAX
ing off of the Confedecacy and
to sink the Southern people yet
lower in the abyss of affliction
and humiliation tn, living Lin
coin had spared US?
He spoke of Lincoln's teach
ing and example, ana paid a
glowing tribute to President
Taft. as follows:
Tragedy walks hand-in-hand
with history and the eyes of
glory are wet with tears
with malice toward none,
with Charity for all''-since
Christ said blessed are the
peacemakers for they shall be
called the children Of God," has
heart of man, stirred to its
depths by human exigency, de-
livered a message so sublime?
Irresistible the mind recurs to
that other martyr Of the ages,
whom not alone in the circum-
stances of obscure birth and
tragic death, but n those Of
simple living and childlike faith.
Lincoln so closely resembled.
Yon lowly cabin which is to be
officially dedicated on the NOR
row may we'll be likened to the
manger of Bethlehem. the boy
that went thence to a God-like
destiny, to the So-Gf God, the
Father Almighty, of him and
of us all. For whence his
prompting except from God?
There are utterances of his
which read like poscripts from
the Sermon on the Mount. Re
viled even as the Man Of Galilee,
slain, even as the Man Of Cali
lee, yet as gentle and as unof-
Tending, a man who died for
men! Roll the stone from the
grave and what shall we see?
Just an American. The declar-
alton of independence his Con-
fession Of Faith. The Consti-
tuition of the United States his
Ark and Covenant of Liberty.
The Union his redoubt, the flag
his shibboleth. Called like one
Of old, within a handful of years
he rose at a supreme moment to
supreme command, fulfilled the
law of his being, and passed
from the scene an exhalation of
the dawn Of freedom. We may
still hear his CHEEKY voice, bidd
ing us be Of good heart, sure
that right makes might en-
treating US to pursue with
firnness in the right as God
gives US to see the right.
The problems he met and
solved are problems no longer.
Others, it may be greater prob
lens, rise before us. Shall
there arise another Lincoln,
May God gird round and
guard his successor in the great
office of Chief Magistrate " hom
we have here with us this day;
give him the soul of Lincoln to
to feel, Lincoln's wisdom to see
and know; to the end that which
ever of the parties prevail and