The Dolores star., 1922-02-10

But 1t is inconceivuble that so honest Il man could
write his reverent expressions of trust in the AL
mighty without 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 and
Abraham Lincoln. Both 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
nation of millions who never 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 tr-
umphant arms and nation reunited but in the
victory of unseltsh 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--(Editoral in New York SUM- 1919.
The assertion THAT all men are created equal"
of practical use in efecting separation
from Great Britain; and it was placed in the Dec
larutiOn not for that but for future use. Its au-
thors meant it to be-as, thank God, it is now
proving itself-a stumblingblock to all those who
in aftertimes might seek to turn free people
back into the hateful paths of despotsm. 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 nt least one hard nut to
crack (Speech at Springfield, ILL.,, June 2G, 1S57)
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 Indifference
earthly honors, do claim to be acuated in this
contest by something higher than 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 hunanity-the
Declaration of Independence. (Speech at Bards-
town, ILL.,, Aug. IL, 1851
have often inquired of myself what great prin-
cple or idea it was that kept this confederacy so
long together. 1t not the 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. ID, 1861
But soberly it is chd's 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 petain 1t. All honor
to Jefferson-to the man who in the concrete
pressure of struggle for national Independence
by single people, had the GOODNESS, forecast, ana
capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary
document an abstract truth, applicable to all men
and all times, and so to embam 1t there that to-
day. and In all coming days, 1t shall be rebuke
and stumbllngblock to the very harbingers of
reappearing tyranny and oppression. Uetter to
Republicans of Boston, April 6, 1852 in reply to
an invitation to attend celebration in honor OF
Jefferson's birthday
This declared Indifference, but must think
covert zeal for the spread of slavery, I cannot
but hate. / hate 1t because of the monstrous In
Justice of slavery itself. hate 1t because 1t de-
prves republican example of its just infiu-
ence in the world enables the enemies of free
institutions, with plausibity to taunt us hypo-
critics. causes the real friends Of freedom to doubt
our sincerity. and especially because 1t forces so