The Penn's Grove record., 1920-02-06
Born February 18th, 1909. President
1876. Assassinated April
18th, 1865

American history may be divided in
10 six epochs. Each epoch has a fore
most typical man who pcrsonihes the
political principles OF the periods of
history, altho one oserIaps the other.
Benjamin Franklin is the most typi-
cal man of the Colonial period. George
Washington the Revolutionary period
and the beginning of the Constitutional
government. Thomas Jefferson repre-
sents the evolution of the nation from
the rule OF the old remaining English
aristocratic ideas dominant in the col
onies to the popular Democratic ideas
founded on the growth of education
and manhood suffrage. Andrew Jackson
was the first typical American Presi-
dent who came from the poor unedu-
Gated white people of the South. Abra-
ham Lincoln typifies the contamination
of the Union from separate States into
an indissoluble union as announced by
Jefferson in his first inaugural address
and by Jackson in his proclamation
against notification.
Woodrow Wilson typiies the extern
sion of American Democratic principles
to be international.
Lincoln Self Educated
Abraham Lincoln was a poor boy
born in Kentucky and grew to man
hood in Illinois. 1t was then on the
frontier of American civilization, now
the central West. There were few
schools, so he read without legal COM
pulsion and educated himself. He got
the philosophy of life and moral prin-
ciples by reading the Bible. He got
bic lrxy hItnoar hu raadinO Eecon'c
Fables. He got his high exalted
opinion of the Father of Our Country
by reading Rev. William Weem's Life
of Washington, wherein he is portray
ed with highly moral praises. He got
his logical mind by studying geometry.
AS to his political philosophy he said:
"A1 l know of political sentiment 1
learned from the life and writings of
Thomas Jefferson"
jefferson in his first inaugural ad-
dress and in his message
against notification both were strong
for a permanent Union of States before
Lincoln met the supreme crisis in the
Civil War.
Every boy and man can learn what
Lincoln did without a teacher if they
put their time, mind and energy to
reading and study.
Lincoln's Honesty
Lincoln had great fame for his hon
esty in money dealings as well as poll
teal opinions. that was why he was
respected far more han many other poll
tician. While he is exalted by some
as a political and moral god he was an
every day practical politician who
traded to give some policies which be-
came extremely Objectionable to make
the issue of his time sue
cessful-that was the preservation of
Union of all the States.
Reverence For Law
Lincoln said:
Let reverence for the law be
breathed by every American mother to
the BABE that prattles on her ap; let
it be taught in schools and colleges;
let it be preached from the pulpits,
proclaimed by Legislative halls and en-
forced in courts of justice. And, in
short. let it become the political reli-
gion of the nation and let the old and
the young, the rich and the poor. the
grave and the gay, of all sexes and
tongues and colors and conditions,
sacrifice increasingly upon it's affairs"
Let the above be preached and
taught and hammered into the minds
of the irreverent, the ungodly and the
civic criminals and America need
never fear for the security of the Re-
public and the happiness of all the
/, people.