The Colorado statesman., 1923-02-10
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Lincoln, who to Massachusetts from Eng
land In 1887. And the Llncolns were sturdy fam
ily There was Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln (1133-
1870, who received Lord Corvallis sword In
surrender at Yorktown. Enoch Lincoln Q1SS
1920 governor of Maine, 1929. Levi Lin
coin G749-1S20) United States attorney gen.
eral 1S01-5 Another Levi Lincoln (7S2-1S6S) was
governor of Massachusetts 1S25-34 and member OF
congress 1854.
Abraham Lincoln's immediate ancestors chose
TO go pioneering New England was too settled
for them. They of the type of American pio-
who moved as he neighbors
smoke o heard his dog bark. In the depths of the
wilderness, working westward, they became
what the world calls poor and obscure. 1t should
be remembered however, that poverty and OBJ
scurity thing In the city and entirely
different thing in the wilderness. pioneer with a
rifle and AK, q roof over his head and crop In
the ground is neither poor nor obscure.
Lincoln cathedral is of the finest In Eng
land 1t was in process of erection from 1915 to
1901. It is of early English architecture and Is
524 by 80 feet. with matchess central tower 271
feet high. The cathedral's famous bell, "Great
Tom of Lincoln" weighs about 51s tons. The north
gate of Lndum Colona still stands and is the only
Roman gate in Britain still in use Not far away
is Boston, the mother of our Boston
What Lincoln and Lincoln's birthday mean to
the English-speaking nations of earth cannot be
better said than said by Elihu Root at the
presentation of the SaintGaudens statue OF LIN
coln the gift of America to the British people. BE
said among other things:
Put aside superficial difference accidental and
unimportant and Abraham Lincoln appears, in the
simple greatness of his lfe his character, and his
service to mankind, representative of the deep
and underlying qualities of his race-the qualities
that great emergencies reveal unchangingly the
same In every continent; the qualities to which
Britain owed her life in the terrible years of the
last decade; the qualities that have made both
Britain and America great. He was of English
blood, and he has brought enduring honor to the
name Every child of English sires should learn
the story and think with PRIDE OF such stuff as
this are we English made
"He was imbued with the conceptions of Justice
and liberty that the people OF Britain had been
working out in struggle and sacrifice since before
Magma Charitable conceptions for which chatham
and Burke and Franklin and Washington stood to-
gether a century and half ago, when the battle
for British liberty was fought and won for Britain
as we'll as for America on the other side of the
Atlantic These conceptions of Justice and liberty
have been the formative power that has brought all
America from the Atlantic to the Pacific, to order
its life according to the course of the common
law to assert its popular sovereignty through rep
political science Of the world-and to establish the
relation of Individual citizenship to the state on
the basis of inalienabe rights which governments
are established to secure 1t Is the Identity OF these
fundamental conceptions in both countries which
makes 1t impossible that In any great world
emergency Britain and America can be on oppos-
ing Sides These conceptions Of justice and liberty
are the breath Of life for both"