The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-02-02

But it is inconceivable that so honest 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 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 the Evening Sun pointed out on the
anniversary Of Waterloo it is the downfall of Ma.
poeon that the world remembers, the ng-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 unsefsh devotion to the cause of human
freedom. He identified his life with the progress
of mankind, and In losing himself he found i'm
7 ortality.-( Editorial in New York Sun, 1919.
The assertion THAT all men created equal"
was of no practical use in effecting our separation
from Great Britain; and 1t was placed in the Dec
Iaration not for that but for future It's au-
thors meant 1t to be-as thank God, 1t is now
proving itself-a stumblingblock to all those who
in aftertmes might seek to turn a 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 at least one hard nut to
crack. Speech at Springfield ILL.,, June 20 1879
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 no indifference
to earthly honors do claim to be actuated In this
contest by something higher than an anxiety for
office | 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-
cple or idea 1t was that kept this confederacy so
long together. 1t was not the mere matter of the
separation of the colonies from the motherand
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
HALL Philadelphia, Feb, D. 1861
But soberly, It Is now child's play to save
the principles of jefferson from total overthrow
I'm this nation This IS a world of com
pensation and he who would be 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 II. All honor
10 Jefrerson--to the man who, in the concrete
pressure of a struggle for national independence
by a single people had the GOODNESS, forecast, ana
capacity to introduce into n 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 1t shall be rebuke
and stumbngblock to the very harbingers of
reappearng tyranny and oppression Qetter to
Republicans of Boston, April g. 1850, In reply to
an invitation to attend celebration In honor Of
Jeffersons birthday
This declared Indifference, but as must think
covert zeal, for the spread of slavery, | cannot
but hate | hate II because of the monstrous In
Justice Of slavery itself hate II because 1t de-
prves our republican example of Its Just inhu-
ence In the world enables the enemies Of free
institutions with FEASIBILITY to aunt us as hypo
critics. causes the real friends of freedom to doubt
our sincerity, and especially because 1t forces 50