White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-02-12
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beast OF burden-tne yoke on man
and OK alike, as the pillow made its
troubled way through the virgin soil.
When the work on the Lincoln place
was over, his toll had just begun.
There were other fields to be titled,
other rails to be split, and fences
built, and Thomas Lincoln always
found IL convenient to sell the labor
of his son TO those who needed hired
men.
Lincoln never had religious train
ing such as this age affords. He
read the Bible, because IL was one of
the few books within his reach, Just
as he read the statutes of Indiana.
His father looked upon religion with
an unusual e%atholicity of spirit, east
ly gliding from one church TO an
other as each in turn appeared
where he happened to be living.
Probably the Babtist faith was the
most impressive with Thomas Lin
coin, as it gave him one of the few
shocks he ever received, and IL chung
TO him until he died.
1t was such a life as must test the
mettle of the strongest; such a train
ing that only the hardest could sur
NlNtt anu a9is II iOulutd Ohi int
character of Abraham Lincoln as no
other life could possibly have done.
He learned by the bitterness of his
own experience the virtues of
patience and ~forbearanee. He ac-
quired the habits of self reliance and
foresight, and he knew how to keep
hrs eye on the fnrrow and TO follow
IL To the end But above all. he
gained a masters knowledge of the
character of men. He knew right
and justice, because both had been
repeatedly denied TO him. He had
tasted privation. disappointment,
and want, and drank their dregs.
There was no form of suffering. or
sorrow, to which he was a stranger.
while his ear was always tuned to
catch the voice of despair. He saw
things as they We're. not as they We're
supposed To be. He distinguished
reality from appearance. and his in
stinct was for truth. He recognized
the weakness of human nature, feel
ing how prone it was to err. how
worthy of forgiveness IL could be-
come. He gave to the tenderness of
love and sympathy a full measure of
appreciation though he had known
them so little. and he yielded TO duty
an undivided devotion that neither
tagged nor faltered.
To these. were added the greater
belief of man to dictate his own des-
tiny. Abraham Lincoln had over
come 30 much he felt nothing good
was wholly lost; that somehow and
somewhere the right would assert IT.
colt that L. gA.lI Rat - gr444I.I
MOI permanently kept down. He
must have seen the beginning of the
new beliefs that are giving comfort
and hope to the children of men
that as We are made in the image of
God, so do We partake of His power:
that our mission is the accomplish
ment OF good, the certain elimination
of evil, and the establishment here
of a happiness for the human race
not dependent upon the frail limita-
ions of material sense.
Lincoln had developed and edu-
Gated himself. Endowed with qualit-
les, latent in nearly all men. he had,
by intense application. by constant
exercise of mind, and heart and
body. brought forth the mental and
spiritual strength which in after
years sustained him.
His journey to New Orleans was
momentous for II had brought him
into actual contact with slavery. 1t
had shown him the ownership of one
man by another, the one labored and
the other who took the fruits of that
labor. Its heartless injustice. the
cruelty of a Unprotected evil, its
violation of every natural and hui
manizing impulse, the degradation of
men to a state where they were no
longer entitled to recognition as
men; the bondage of the son flowing
from the bondage of the mother,
the overturning of all the purposes
of a righteous God-combined TO
make an ~ineffaceable impression up
on Lincoln and to burn its image in
the marrow of his soul.
Ii is singular and interesting that
he should at this period have been in
the prairie state which bore a name
of promise, sweetened by the mem
DRY of Marquette. Ii is related that
years before civilization had spread
over the face of the country. the for
est priest, speeding his canoe on the
Father Of Waters. had come upon
an Indian camp. They took him
through the woods to the lodge of
their chief and, marvelling at his
pale face, piled him with a hundred
questions as If he were, in truth, a
celestial visitor. He quietly asked
them, who they were9" The chief
replied I'VE are the Illinois, which
being Interpreted meal 1--WE are
Men" And surely, in that land God
raised up men.
A legislative career followed Lin
coins failure as a merchant, and his
activity as a surveyor. 1t was no.
ticeable In only two respects. The
n an index of his intellectual hon
esty, the other IA symbol of his in
tellectual development. In a coun-