South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-02-12

from the beginning of time; and viii ever
continue to struggle. The one is the COM
mon right of humanity and the other the
divine right of kings. II is the same prin-
ciple IN whatever shape it develops itself.
It is the same spirit which says ''You toll
and work and earn bread and III eat IT."
Here you have Llneon and his debate with Doug
lass. holding aloft the hope OF freedom and
nouncng the tyranny OF slavery.
He had enlisted in the age-old battle the side
OF right and his vision was not clouded by differ
ences OF race or the color of the skin
He saw the infamy and the immortality OF the
who earns being robbed by the with
power.
lie the tyranny that made some the
puppets Of others and whose sacrifices went for the
pleasure OF the ider.
The call that he issued in that day has its mean
ing today in a thousand forms His appeal still
alive and vibrant the issue of between the House
OF Have and the House of Want.
To him. there was no compromise between the
forces OF right and wrong. no trucking with his
conscience
| wish you to remember, now and for
ever, that it is your business and not mine;
that If the union of these States and the
liberties of this people shall be lost, IT is
but little to a man Of fifty-two years of age
but a great deal to the thirty millions of
these United States and to their posterity
IN all coming time. | appeal to you again
to constantly bear in mind that not with
politicians, not with presidents, not with
Office seekers, but with you is the question:
Shall the Union and shall the liberties of
this country be preserved to the latest
generations?
That speech. which he delivered to the people
of Indiana inst s wears might have been de-
livered yesterday
It was faith in democracy-in the duties and the
responsibilities Of citizenship.
He was on his way to Washington to his own
inauguration and his heart was filled with the dark
clouds of war that already overshadowed the land.
He thought straight. He believed that people
which reserves freedom should intelligent enough
and courageous enough to preserve their freedom
and to fight for it.
He into the great heart Of the peorle Of
America and read there the hope which guided him
in his decisions. thinking always of the thirty mil
lions. Of his own fortunes.
That message at Indianapolis on Feb. II. 1851.
might be read again this year when the people
will be called upon to again take part in the same
old contest between those who have greed in their
hearts and those who have liberty as a goal.
He spoke again for the ages.
Let every American, every lover of
liberty, every well wisher to his pOsterity,
swear by the blood of the Revolution
never to violate In the least particular the
laws of the country and never to tolerate
their violation by others. as the patriots
of '76 did to the support of the Declara-
ton of independence, to the support
of the Constitution, and laws let every
American pledge his life, his property,
and his sacred honor. Let every man re-
member that to violate the laws is to
trample on the blood Of his father, and to
tear the charter of his own and his chill
dren's liberty"
There spoke the Lincoln Of Law and Order, the
believer the integrity of society and in this too
he spoke not to the people Of his day but TO the
and who may live under the stars and
stripes
lie knew that there is liberty outside the law
and that defiance of the law is to tear down the
foundations Of all freedom.
Such the wisdom Of Lincoln Such were his
utterances not often read and quoted as some
Of his more famous speeches and declarations but
illuminating 10 the character which is held in
love and esteem by all Americans.
His vision was eternal because he had caught
something of eternity is revealed in the hearts
and lives of
He was and will always be, not only tho iberatoI
Of a black race, not only the defender of nationa
integrity. but the counselor and adviser in every
hour of the life Of the republic and of the world
aereal Man of the Ages.