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LincoIn's apothegm. therefore. may
be rendered thus; What approve u
not consent Of them described By Blaine
- the competent to govern themselves
and others; but consent Of them, who
-ba the records OF illinois. BY our con-
situations. statutes. and frank admiss-
ions to ourselves, are the incompetent;
and to suppiant the formerly the latter.
Once more the name was made execu-.
toner Of the reality. Men can dispense
with masters over them, when they
are masters Of themselves, and when
not For the human world to be
habitable; for man to be civilized, the
higher must rule the lower. As mat
ter Of fact Lincoln did consider that q
Southern master was good enough to
reclaim q fugitive slave; when he was
masters attorney for this purpose.
His biographer Mr.. Joseph 81. Barrett
is pleased with the proof, that Lincoln,
latter all that has beeL said to the
contrary, had no objection to good
client with bad cause. !" When the
receipt Of fee could affect his own
judgment Of right and wrong, might
he not without iraseible impotence
look on those vast interests, acquired
by the South from the North; one
might say forced upon the South by the
North? With his own history and the
history ofhis own State, behind him.
what are we to think of the suggestion
in his second Inaugural of a possible.
pro.ong cation of the war. until all the
wealth piled up by bordsman's two
hundred and fifty years Of unrtquittd
toll shall be sunk, and until every dfop=
of Hood drown by the lash shall be
paid by another drawn with the sword!,
When we further read, that this is
said. with malice toward none, char
ity toward ALL, my own mind is be-
wildered to define the dividing line be-
tween charity and malice.
One who had been Secretary of the
Navy and at the time was Attorney
General of the United States, some six
or seven years ago, suggested the lash
as the fit punishment for anarchists.
But the anarchists, in this country have
for their climax of endeayor, the pat
tern Of John Brown. His purpose was
to redden the skies with the torch of
ser1ile insurrection; repeating in the
South the story of Haiti and San De-
mingo. Anarchists of this patti
have been voted the thanks of the re-
public; grateful memories and monu-
ments, the biography OF apotbeosis;
the anthology Of abolition, John
Browns scheme to incite the negroes
to murder the white POPULATION of the
South without respect to age or sex.
failed to induce single slave to rise
against his master. The slaves fled
from him to their masters. But the
failure was due exclusively to the error
in Browns premises. The piety of his
intent, was that which, in the words Of
Emerson, made his gallows sacred as
the cross. = About the time the form
er Attorney General threw out his sug-
gestion Of the lash for anarchists there
was much condemnation of anarchists
(among others, by the then Secretary
of STATED because .'day by day and
year by year" they were sowing the
seeds Of dissention and hatred through
out the land; because they would ar
ray labor against capital and capital
against labor because with bitter
and yindicative feeling, !" they would
destroy that consideration for the in
terests and rights Of others which is
essential to the peaceful conduct Of
free government. = There was loud
denunciation of one: called the Apos-
tie Of Hate. It is just this which was
canonized in the decade between 1850
and 1860. In that decade ''the Apos-
tle'of Hate displaced the Twelve
Apostles. Men became popular, not
only popular but pure. BY appeal to
hatred. The assassin with the knife
poised, ready to strike il to the hilt il
the heart Of the South, IS the Abolition
Christ. Between John Brown and the
s'hipher law Of Moral IDEAS one
can admit preestablished harmony.
One who had been occupant Of the
White House, q few years ago, pro.
nounced John Brown the American
| ideal.
Continued next week.