Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-02-03

But 1t is inconceivable that honest q man cOu1u
write his reverent expressions of trust in the Al
mighty without a personal sense of relationship.
The two men of the Nineteenth century who
have drawn and held the most intense admiration
of the civilized world are Napoleon Bonaparte ana
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 mag
ination of millions who never saw them.
But as the Evening Sun pointed out on 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 nation reunited but in the
victory of unselfsh devotion to the cause of human
freedom He identified his life with the progress
of mankind and in losing himself he found inn
rortality-(E Editorial in New York Sun, 1919)
The assertion "That all men are created equal
was of practical use in effecting our separation
from Great Britain; and it placed in the Dec
laration not for that but for future use. It's au-
thors meant it to be-as thank God, it is
proving ftself-a stumblingblock to all those who
in aftertimes might seek to turn 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 at least one hard nut to
crack (speech at Springfield, H.. June g. 1879
political fate of any man whomsoever but come
back to the truths that in the Declaration Of
Independence While pretending Indifference
to earthly honors do claim to be actuated in 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. (Speech at Bards-
town. H., Aug II, 1859
have often inquired of myself what great prin-
ciple or idea it was that kept this confederacy so
long together 1t not the mere matter of the
separation of the colonies from the motherland
but that sentiment in the Declaration of ndepen-
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. %, 1861
But soberly it is now no childs play to save
the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow
in this nation. This is a world of COM
nensation and he who would be no slave must
consent to have no slave Those who deny free
dom to others deserve it not for themselves, and,
under just God, cannot long retain it. All honor
to Jefferson-to the man who, in the concrete
pressure of struggle for national independence
by single people, had the coolness forecast, ana
capacity to introduce into merely revolutionary
document an abstract truth, applicable to all men
and all times, and so to embalm it there that to-
day, and In all coming days, it shall be rebuke
and a stumblingblock to the very harbngers Of
reappearing tyranny and oppression. Oetter to
Republicans of Boston, April 6, 1859, in reply to
an invitation to attend a celebration in honor of
Jefferson's birthday
This declared Indifference but as must think,
covert zeal, for the spread of slavery l cannot
but hate l hate it because Of the monstrous In
Justice of slavery itself. hate it because it de-
prives our republican example of it's just infiu-
ence in the world enables the enemies of free
institutions with FEASIBILITY to taunt us as hypo-
critics causes the real friends of freedom to doubt
our sincerity and especially because it forces so