The Colorado statesman., 1922-02-11
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But 1t Is inconceivable that so honest man could
write his reverent expressions of trust In the AL
mighty without 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 as the Evening Sun pointed out on the
anniversary of Waterloo, it is the downfall of Ma
poeon that the world remembers, the long-deferred
but inevitable defeat of ambition. Lincoln dled
victorious not alone in the circumstance or tr
umphnnt arms and 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 in losing himself he found I'M
rortality.-(Editorial in New York Sun, 1919.
The assertion "That all men are created equaT
was of no practical use in effectng our separation
from Great Britain; and it was placed in the Dec
laration not for that but for future use. It's au-
thors meant 1t to be-as, thank God, it Is now
proving itself-a stumblingblock to all those who
in aftertmes 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 ILL.,. June 90, 1879
Think nothing of me; take 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 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, ILL.,, Aug. II, 1851
l have often inquired of myself What great prin-
cple 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 Indepen-
dence which gave liberty, not alone to the people
of this country but, hope to the world for all
future time. 1t was that which gave promise that
In due time the weight would be lifted from the
shoulders of all men. (Speech at Independence
Hail. Philadelphia, Feb. %, 1861
Rut sobery it is now no childs play to save
the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow
In this nation. This is world of COM
pensation and he who would be no slave must
consent to have slave. Those who deny free
dom to others deserve it not for themselves, and,
under Just God, cannot long retain 1t. All honor
to Jefferson-to the man VINO, in the concrete
pressure of a struggle for national independence
by single people, had the GOODNESS, forecast, ana
capacity to Introduce into merely revolutionary
document an abstract TRUTH applicable to all men
and all tunes and so to embalm 1t there that to-
day. and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke
and a stumbngblock to the very harbingers of
reappearlng tyrhhhy anu oppiession NiHet'eA "
Republicans of Boston, April g. 1859, in reply to
an invitation to attend celebration in honor of
Jefferson's birthday
This declared Indifference, but as must think,
covert ZEAL for the spread of slavery, 1 cannot
hut hate l hate 1t because of the monstrous In
Justice of slavery itself hate 1t because 1t de-
prives our republican example Of Its just infu
ence In the world enables the enemies Of free
institutions with plausbility, to taunt us as hypo-
critics. causes the real friends Of freedom to doubt
our sincerity. and especially because 1t forces SO