The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1921-12-22

II want TO take The train and The
wagon hasn't come for my trunk" said
she.
Lincoln went In and got the trunk
and carried IL to the station on his
back, with people laughing and throw.
ing Jokes at him as he strobe along.
When I think OF him, his chivalry and
kindness come first to mind.
lie read much, but his days OF book
study we're nearly ended. His learn
Ing was now got mostly In the school
Of experience. Herndon says, and ]
think II is true, that he never read
10 the end OF q law book those days.
The study Of authorities was left to
the junior partner. His reading was
mostly outside the law. His knowl-
edge Of science was derived from
Chambers vestiges Of the Natural
History OF Creation.
He was still afraid Of the Abolition
Movement In 1852 and left town to
avoid convention OF Its adherents.
lie thought the effort TO resist by
force the laws OF Kansas was criminal
and would hurt the cause OF freedom.
let us have peace and revolutionize
through the ballot box" he urged.
In 1854, a little quarrel In New York
began 10 weave the thread of destiny.
Seward, Weed and Greeley had welded
decisive power In the party councils
Of that state. Seward was high
ii MI
his triumphant progress absorbed his
thought. Weed was dakzled by the
splendor OF this great star. Neither
gave n thought 10 their able colleague
"a poor man struggling to build up
q great newspaper. An office. with
fair pay, would have been help In
those days. but he got no recognition
Of his needs and talents and services.
Suddenly he wrote letter to Weed
In which he said:
The firm Of Seward, Weed and
Greeley s hereby dissolved by the res
ignation OF It's junior member"
When Greeley had grown In power
and wisdom until his name was known
and honored from ocean TO ocean, they
tried to make peace with him. but
In vain.
Then suddenly q new party and
new Lincoln were born on the same
day In 1874. at a great meeting In
Bloomington. Illinois. There his soul
was TO come into its stateliest man
sion out OF its lower vaulted past
| For him the fulness Of time had ar
rived. lie was prepared for II. His
intellect had also reached the fulness
| OF lis power. Now his great righ'
hand was ready for the thunderholt'
which his spirit had been slowly forg
Ing. God called him In the voices OF
the crowd. He was quick To answer
1 lie went up the steps to the platform
I saw. as he came forward, that NJ
had taken the cross upon him. ON
II was a memorable thing to see thu
smothered flame Of his spirit leaplni
| into his face. His hands were on Ill
hips. He seemed TO grow taller as h
advanced. The look OF him remind
me now OF what the famous bronz'
founder I'm Paris said OF the death
mask. that Il was the most beautiful
bend and face he had ever seen. VIVA
shalI I say of his words save tina
Il seemed 10 me that the voice OF Coz
was In them? The reporters forge
10 report. II II a lost speech. Their
IL no record Of H. suppose II wa
scrubbed with a pencil on scraps
paper and on the backs OF envelope
NJ sundry times. agreeabiy with hi
habit. and committed 10 memory. y
this great speech. called by some tn
nohlest effort If his life, was neve
printed. remember one sentence, re
Isting 20 the Nebraska bill.
Let us use ballots. not bullets
against the weapons 81 violence, whic'
are those of kingcraft. Their fruit
are the dying bed Of the fearless Sum
ner. the ruins Of the Free State hotel
the smoking timbers Of the Herald o
Freedom. the governor of Kansa
chained to q stake like a horse thief.
In June. 1853 he took the longes
step OF all. The Republican state cou
yentIon had endorsed him for the Uni
ted States senate. II was then tina
he wrote on envelopes and scrap
Of paper at odd moments, when hi
mind was on duty. the speech begin
ming:
"A house divided against itself mus
fau. Our government can not Ion
endure part slave and part free"
was among the dozen friends Z
whom he read that speech In the stat
house library. One said Of those frs
sentences: ut Is a fool utterance.
Another. ut. Is ahead of Its time.