New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1919-02-07

craftsmanship and in his frailtieS. Human In his
love for story telling and relaxation, and intense
" filled with the humanity that Will not knowing
ly do an unkind or 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 it
would not be difficult to name better military Off
GERS than Lincoln was, or more learned men and
greater orators than he. But Lincoln was Il 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 dilapl-
dated old low books, his broken-down 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 on which he showed that. good
politician as he was thought to be. he was a poor
hand at guessing results of a presidential cleo
ton. Yet this slip of paper brought sl,O25. 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 a very poor prophet, and overesti-
mated the strength of General Mcclellan, his po-
litical opponent in the election of 1854. Accord
ing to Lincoln's estimate he felt sure of the New
England states and a few others, totaling 12O
NOtCo ~ INV ~ - ohu " e tuoWu uS
''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 a matter of fact, however, only
New Jersey, Delaware and Kentucky went against
him, and he carried the election by a vote of
212 to %.
There were reasons for LincOln's belief that
the states he had set down as "Copperhead"
would 60 against him. The drafts of men had
been resisted in more or less energetic form in
many of these commonwealth, notably New York
and 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 were asked to name the most Illus
trious example of what we have called the self.
made man in America, there would instantly occur
the name of Lincoln. In a country of seIf.made
men he stands in high relief. There is no one to
take a place beside hi.n, 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 not to
achieve success by any unfair means.
lie admitted that hs education was defective"
and that was a weak word for it. Many men
with a great deal more have been failures. And
Lincoln had every opportunity of becoming q fail
urc, 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 time-probably it is to be seen there vet
there was exhibited in one of the colleges at