The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-14

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and sorrows, his hopes and discour-
Iagements, from the little log cabin In
Kentucky where he was born, to the
presidential chair, reads like a
romance and could not have occurred
in any other country than our own,
where the humblest hoy can rise,
step by step on the political ladder to
the white house. The story of the life
of Lincoln, Of his trials and his
triumphs, is the bright star of hope
for the youth of our land and the in
SEPARATION of all America.
Lincoln was deep thinker, a pro-
found reasoner, a great lawyer, and
enc OF the greatest political phil
osophers that ever lived; and during
his presidential career, in the dark
est hours of our countrys history, he
was the guiding genius of the union.
Lincoln died in the prime of his
life. at the summit of his career, in
the zenith of his fame, in the service
of his country, loved by every friend
of man and mourned by all the world.
There is reaper whose name is
Death,
And with his sickle keen
He reaps the bearded grain at a
breath,
And the flowers that grow between. !"
But the grim reaper can never
rob humanity of the undying fame of
Abraham Lincoln.
"A thousand years hence no story,
no tragedy, no epic poem, will be fill
led with greater wonder or be read
with deeper feeling than that which
tells of his life and death.
Lincoln was indeed a mantle
man-upon whose like we shall not
look again; and take him all in all he
was one of the greatest apostles Of
human liberty the world has ever
SEEN
THE mortal Lincoln sleeps beneath
the marble shaft at Springfield, and
his shrine is, and ever will be, the
mecca of the liberty loving people of
the world whittier shall journey to the
end of time the countless millions yet
unborn to kneel and kindle anew their
zeal for human freedom
The address was closed with a
quotation of the inscription on the
Lincoln monument, at Springfield,
ILL.,, as follows:
President Lincoln excelled all his
contemporaries, as he also excelled
most of the eminent rulers of every
time, in the humanity of his nature, in
the constant assertion of reason over
passion and feeling in the act of
dealing with men; in fortitude new
er disturbed by adversely; in capacity
fer delay when action was fraught
with peril, in the power of immediate
and resolute decisions when delays
were dangerous, in comprehensive
Judgment which forecasts the final
and best opinion of nations and pos
terity; and in the union of enlarged
patriotism, wise philanthropy, and
the highest political justice by which
he was enabled to save a nation and
to emancipate a race"
Rich'd 3. 3. Moods Address.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen and
aides: am gratified to have the
privilege OF appearing before you this
evening to participate in commemor,
at,ng the birthday anniversary CT
Abraham Lincoln, one Of the greatest
characters Of America and of the
world. He was q remarkable boy and
grew into remarkable man.
Mr.. Chairman, the gentlemen who
planned this patriotic assembly seem
ed to have thought it fitting that a
citizen born in the same state and
county, historic old Hardin county,
Kentucky, should be invited to deliv-
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niversary in memory and honor Of
Abraham Lincoln, the greatest COM
moner of them all.
1t was a picturesque region where
Lincoln was born young, rugged and
Wild where people breathed as free
las the eagle in the air. Rocks and
rills and witness smiled or frowned
all about the cabin home He was
born in much earlier day than I,
but the same old landmarks We're
there, and | have played in boyish
good cheer and wantonness over the
same ground where the Lincoln
pioneer home was located, resting
peacefully in a quiet little valley that
smiled like an infant plain between