The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1922-02-09
1Eo>-z s,s FIczi,7S By EAu7Eza GL22O By Tie
4trcSat.'cO7 A'T Galleries, CIIcaSo

But it is inconceivable that so honest a could
write his reverent expressions of trust in the AL
mighty without n personal sense of relationship.
The two of the Nineteenth century who
have drawn and held the most intense admiration
of the civilized world Napoleon Bonaparte and
Abraham Lincoln. Both were great leaders, great
executives. Both had the power of binding their
followers to them with personal loyalty stronger
than the ties of blood. Both appeal to the imag-
ination of millions who never saw them.
But, the Evening Sun pointed out the
anniversary of Waterloo, it is the downfall of Ma
poleon that the world remembers the long deferred
but inevitable defeat of ambition. Lincoln died
victorious. not alone in the circumstance of tri-
umphant arms and a nation reunited but in the
victory of unselish devotion to the cause of human
freedom. He identified his life with the progress
of mankind and i'm losing himself he found inn
r-ortaty-(Edtoria in New York Sun. 1870.
The assertion THAT all men are created equal"
was of practical in effecting separation
from Great Britain and it placed in the Dec
laration not for that but for future use Its aIl-
thorS meant ii to be-as, thank God, Ii is now
proving itself-a stumblmgbock to all those who
in aftertimes might seek to turn n free people
back into the hateful paths of despotism. They
knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants
and they meant, when such should reappear In
this fair land and commence their vocation they
should find left for them ut least one hard nut to
crack. (Speech AT Springfield ILL.,, June 26, 1879
Think nothing of me; take no thought for the
political fate of any man whomsoever but come
back to the truths that are in the Declaration of
Independence. While pretending no indifference
to earthly honors do claim to be actuated i'm this
contest by something higher than an anxiety for
office. l charge you to drop every paltry and in
significant thought for any mans success 1t is
nothing Judge Douglas is nothing But do not
destroy that immortal emblem Of humanity-the
Declaration of Independence tSpeech at Bards-
town, H.. Aug. - 1859
| have often inquired of myself what great prin-
ciple or idea 1t was that kept this confederacy so
long together. 1t was not the mere matter of the
separation of the colonies from the motherand
but that sentiment i'm the Declaration of Indepen-
dence which gave liberty, not alone to the people
of this country but, hope to the world for all
future time. 1t that which gave promise that
in due time the weight would be lifted from the
shoulders of all men. (Speech at Independence
Hall. Philadelphia, Feb. D. 1861
But soberly, 1t is now no child's play to save
the principles of jefferson from total overthrow
I'm this nation This is q world OF com
pensation and he who would be no slave must
consent TO have slave. Those who deny free
dom to others deserve II not for themselves, and.
under just God cannot long retain it. All honor
to Jefferson-tO the man who, I'm the concrete
pressure of a struggle for national independence
by n single people. had the GOODNESS, forecast, ana
capacity to introduce into merely revolutionary
document an abstract truth. applicable To all men
and all times, and so to embalm II there that to-
day, and i'm all coming days, II shall be a rebuke
and stumbllngblock to the very harbingers of
reappearlng tyranny and oppression dieter to
Republicans of Boston April @, 1859, in reply to
an invitation to attend celebration in honor OF
Jefferson's birthday
This declared Indifference but 1 must think,
covert zeal for the spread of slavery, | cannot
but hnte / hate IL because of the monstrous In
justice of slavery itself. hate 1t because 1t de-
prives our republican example Of its just influ-
ence In the world enables the enemies of free
institutions with pausbllity TO taunt us as hypo-
critics. causes the real friends of freedom to doubt
sincerity. and especially because It forces so