Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-02-08

statesmanship and In his frailties- Human in his
love for story telling and relaxation, and intense
ly filed with the humanity that will not knowing
ly do an unknd unjust act.
1t is not that he was perfection in any of the
walks of life in which fate turned his steps, for
there were better lawyers in his time; there were
even better story tellers than Lincoln; surely 1t
would be difficult to name better military off,
GERS than Lincoln was, more learned men and
greater orators than he. But Lincoln was a man
of the people and Americans like that kind of man,
writes Joseph Jackson in the Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
they hoard every scrap of writing that the
man ever wrote His walking sticks, his dlapi-
dated old law books, his brokendown bookcase,
everything that once belonged to him or in which
he had set his name, is treasured.
Not long ago in New York they sold at auction
a slip of paper which he showed that, good
politician as he was thought to be, he poor
hand at guessing results of presidential cleo
ton. Yet this slip of paper brought STOPS, and
Lincoln had not even signed 1t, but it was known
to have been written by him.
1t might be mentioned here that Lincoln proved
himself to be very poor prophet and overesti-
maYad the strength of General Mcclellan, his po-
Mtical opponent in the election of 1864 Accord
ing to Lincons estimate he felt sure of the New
England states and few Others totang 100
votes in the electoral college, and he set down
~the supposed Copperhead vote" the states of
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, Missouri Kentucky and Illinois, and
their ia votes he believed would be cast for Gen
eral Mcclellan. AS matter of fact. however, only
New Jersey. Delaware and Kentucky went against
him, and he carried the election by vote of
212 to %.
There were reasons for Lincoln's belief that
the states he had set down as f"Copperhead'
would go against him. The drafts of men had
been resisted in more less energetic form In
many of these commemorative, notably New York
ss2d Illinois, and the large number of sympathiz-
ers there might easily lead to his conclusion. But
what he had not taken into the fullest account
was that the majority of men In the North were
loyal to the Union regardless of politics or their
natural sympathies, and they stood by Lincoln to
the end.
Was Real Self-Made Man.
If anyone asked to name the most illus-i
sYious example of what we have called the self
made man In America there would instantly occur
the name of Lincoln In country of self-made
men he stands in high relief. There is no one to
take place beside him, for not only did he over
come every natural difficulty placed in his way In
his determination to achieve an education and
they were numerous, but along with 1t always
went that equally strong determination net to
achieve success by any unfair means.
He admitted that his education was defective"
and that was a weak word for 1t. Many men
with great deal more have been failures And
Lincoln had every opportunity of becoming fail
ure but he realized his educational weaknesses
and strove to remove them. That he did remove
them seems TO be testified to by many writer's
At one tme-prObably ii is to be seen there vet
S-4As~s was exhibited in one of the colleges at