Arizona republican., 1913-02-12
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The Sixteenth President

The Sixteenth President
 One hundred and years ago today there born in Kentucky hoveI perhaps there was no meaner in the state a babe who destined to the com mandtng figure the history of his country That hovel has become a shrine and the name of that babe, sacred and enduring memory for the name of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States shall be mems tongues as long as the republic shall stand should faII Lin coin. like some colossal figure would be seen ering above the ruins.
 There was denied to Lincoln all those adven- titious aids greatness He hewed his way with seeming ease to him, through obstacles that would have been insuperable to the ordinary Lin coin ordinary man; he owed nothing circumstances; he created them.
 Patience, wisdom and strength combined in him in other his time They requisite the great task set for him. likely that there other his day that could have executed such a task; it is very likely but for him the country would have been divided and the United States would have gone the scrap heap of collapsed republics.
 Lincoln by sheer strength to his appointed place. popularity or that elusive force called personal magnetism that raised him. He popular with any the warning elements that ragged around him. He held himself aloof the abolitionists for abolition was a fad With hIm. DeteStable slavery to Lincoln, disunon much detestabIe. Slavery might would contribute perpetuity of the union. It only when became apparent that the nation could survive, half slave and half free" Lincoln had earlier observed that he turned to abolition a means and not end.
 He stood constantly between the parties the conflict the about which the storm ragged, came to be recognized that the storm was center authority weaker would have yielded to the stronger az gressfve element his own party would have sought compromise. Lincoln pursued the only course which, now believe he alone could follow.
 He followed it to the end, the saving of the nation then passed into the ages," his war secretary gave to immortal fame, Lin coin died
 We think that the finest commentary Lin- coin is given by Lowell in his famous essay whose concluding paragraph is:
 "On the day of his death this simple western attorney, who according to party a vulgar joker, and whom the doctrinares among his supporters accused of wanting every element of statesmanship the absolute ruler in chris tendon, and this solely by the hold his good -hu- nored sagacity had laid the hearts under standings Of his countrymen. Nor, this all, for it appeared that he had drawn the great majority, not only of his fellow citizens but of mankind also to his side. So strong and so persuasive is honest manliness without single quality of romance unreal sentiment to help it! A civilian during the most captivating times of military achievement, awkward with no skill the lower technicalties of manners, he left behind him a fame beyond that any conqueror, the memory O a grace higher than that of outward person and O. a gentemanliness, deeper than breeding Never before that startled April morning did such multitudes of men shed tears for the death of they had never seen, if with him a friendly presence had been taken away from their lives leaving them colder and darker. Never funeral panegyrc elo- the silent look of sympathy which strangers exchanged when they met that day Their gnhn h1n Inst Lj nan
 Lowell wrote while the events still fresh while the wounds of the nation and humanity were yet unhealed. He without a full appreciation the hallowing effect time upon name of Lincoln whose figure looms large, and will still grow above the mist of gathering years.