The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31

fesehtlng 4S states In the concord of union, testify that the end brought him out all right.
 Abused Privileges
 sRefleeting now on the lampooning and needless attack and uniustifiab.e e abuse which bruised his heart and tested his patience. we may accept US expression a s one of the abused privileges under popular government when passion sways and bitterness Inspires, but for which there is com pensation in the assurance that when men have their feet firmly planted in the right. and do the very best they can and keep on doing it. they come elt all right in the end and all the storm does not amount to anything
 Abraham Lincoln was no super man. There are neither supermen onr demi Gods in the government of kingdoms, empires, or republics. It Will be better for our conception of government and it's institutions if we Will understand this fact. IL is vastly greater than finding the super man If We justify the confidence that our institutions are capable of bring Ing Into authority in time of stress. men big enough and strong enough to meet all demands.
 tosi apNles uliIer about his ambi- ton put Herndon. who knew him as aid no other says he was greatly am bitious. l can believe that Ambition Is commendable attribute. without when no man succeeds Only incon- siaerate ambition imperils
 Greatest of Presidents
 Ills work so colossal in the face Of such diseoura cement, that none VIII dispute that he was incompara- bly the greatest of our Presidents.
 Ihis memorial. matchiess tribune that 1t is. is less for Abraham Lin coin, than for those of us today. and Tor those who follow after. His sur passing compensation would have Deen Tn living, to have his 10000 sor- rows dissipated in the rejoicing of 'he succeeding half century He low ed his boys in the army, and would have revealed in the great part tbev played in more than d half century of the pursuit Of peace. and concord restored. How he would have been exalted by the chorus of the union after the mystic chords were touch ed oy the better angels of our nature How ft would comfort his great soul 10 know that the states in the south land join sincerely in honoring him. and have twice since his day joined with all the fervee of his own great heart in defending the flag How it would soften his anguish 10 know that the south long since came to realize that vain assassin robbed IL or it's most sincere and potent friend when 1t was prostrate and stricken, when Lincoln's sympathy and understanding would have helped to heal the wounds and hide the m ba with his love of freedom and justice this , Apostle of Humanity would have found his sorrows tenfold repaid to see the hundred millions to whom he bequeathed reunion and national ty, giving of their sons and daugh- tcrs and all their fortunes to halt the armed march of autoeracy and pre- serve civilization, even as he presrev- ed union
 Going On
 More. how his great American heart would be aglow to note how resolutely we are going on. always on, holding to constitutional meth ods; amending to meet the require nents of progressive civilization. to majority rule properly restrained which is the only true sovereign of free people and work ing to the fuifillment of the destiny or the worlds greatest republic:
 "Eifty-seyen years ago this people gave from their ranks. sprung from their own fiber this plain man, hold ing their common ideals. They gave him first to service of the nation in the hour of peril. then to their pan theon of fame with them, and by them. he is enshrined and exalted forever
 Today American gratitude, love and appreciation, give to Abraham Lincoln this lone white tmeple. a panthean for him alone"