The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-02-15

in the economy of American society ard
the latent influences making for free
dom were at their flood when he de-
clared that to which all men, when
shorn of prejudices and passions, must
| subscribe, the economical and the moral
worth of freedom over slavery. The
statement of the fact in effective forms
| fell to the man whose entire personal
! history made him adverse to inficting
upon fellOw-man any wrong he would
not willingly suffer himself. While
others rode the surges Of discussion as
to the eXpediency of the liberation of
the servile portion of the population,
| Abraham Lincoln went back to the
basic justice of the case and acted &C
cordingly. 1t matters not in the least
| if consent to an immutable principle of
right shall open the very walls Of social
| destruction and immerse the age in
sea of evils, the immutable right must
be declared and justice must be estab-
lished and manhood must be respected.
In the end the things that are convulsed
will become orderly, and in the newer
relations will be found the forces of the
finer equities set to work by the genius
and conservation, the wisdom and the
work OF men who dare to see the truth
and to stand for its authority.
All nature was Travelling because Of
the bondage that afflicted the country
before Lincoln spoke. The South, with
scarcely a thing in the way Of manufac-
lures, beyond wheelright shops was out
for the liberation of the natural wealth
stored in it's soil and for the teeming in
dustry Of the mill and factory to sing
the song of prosperity, such as no
amount of plantation labor could con-
fer upon it. The might and strength of
federal institutions were invoking Lin
coin to declare the truth Of their suprem-
acy and he did it. The field of manhood
was not up to the average of the social
possibilities of the age and Lincoln
brooked the issues of fate and set
forth the word of emancipation for the
times in terms of race. When all APP
pralsements have been made of the d.
rect benefits conferred by Lincoln upon
the section of the population in whose
behalf he spoke, the story of the ulti-
mate good will but begin to be told.
The waxing of Lincoln must go on from
age to age as the lines of influence he
set going shall ramify and shall pervade
society, and the principles for which he
stood shall blossom into the full beauty
of human altruism
The spiritual conferment of Lincoln
upon the American people is beyond all
estimation. The dull and sIuggard
movements Of a shackled period gave
place to the stimulated prosperity of an
age fraught with the very finest aspira-
tons and effects. 1t was the truth of
God that Lincoln set in the framing Of
his times, and although God spoke in
the thunder and lightning and the tenn
pest Of strife, yet it was the still ANAL
voice Of the spirit, after all For the
words Of Lincoln were as balm Of Gilead
to distressed nation, and through
those words life and hope and peace
came to the hearts of men. Brother
hood took on a fuller content and the
divine paternity Of God assumed more
majestic yet loving proportions. Error
hid itself and fear fed before him and
the righteous people set up their affairs
upon the high places of hope and free
dom to worship the God Of everlasting
grace. Simple prophet Of the people,
rugged apostle of truth, in the noblest
line of the saints and martyrs of all
ages-Abraham Lincoln has left name
that is above all other names in Ameri-
can history, in that he did the noblest
deed for humankind and FURNISHED the
stars with the blood of his lowly sacri-
flee. Baltimore American.