The Holly chieftain., 1923-02-08

Lincoln, who came to Massachusetts, from Eng
land In 1887. And the Lincons were sturdy fam
lily. There was Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln (1733-
1S1O). who received Lord CORVALLIS sword in
surrender at Yorktown. Enoch Lincoln (17SS-
1929 was governor of Maine, 1920. Levi Lin
coin t174a1s20) was United States attorney gen.
eral 1S01-5 Another Levi Lincoln (17s2- 1859 was
governor of Massachusetts 1825-34 and member of
congress 1854.
Abraham Lincoln's immediate ancestors chose
to go pioneering. New England was too settled
for them They were of the type Of American pio-
neer who moved on as soon as he saw nelghbor's
smoke or heard his dog bark. In the depths OF the
wilderness. ever working westward, they became
what the world calls poor and obscure. 1t should
be remembered, however, that poverty and OBJ
security are one thing in the city and entirely a
different thing In the wilderness. A pioneer with a
rifle and ax, roof over his head and crop In
the ground Is neither poor 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 50 feet with matchess central tower 2n
feet high. The cathedral's famous bell, "Great
Tom of Lincoln" weighs about 5h tons. The north
gate of Lindum Colonia 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 Engshspeaking nations of earth cannot be
better said than was said by Elhu Root at the
presentation Of the SantGaudens statue Of Lin
coin, the gift Of America to the British people, He
said, among other things:
'Put aside superficial difference, accidental md
unimportant, and Abraham Lincoln appears In the
simple greatness of his life 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
Ilrftn ntv md h,,,or IJo ,of IT,.
blood, and he has brought enduring honor to the
the story and think with pride, OF such STUFF as
this are we English made
''He imbued with the conceptions of justice
and liberty that the people of Britain had been
working out In struggle and sacrifice since before
Magma Charta--the conceptions for which Chatham
and Burke and Franklin and Washington stood to-
gether. century and half ago, when the battle
for British liberty was fought and won for Britain
as well 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
resentative governmentBritain's great gift to the
political science of the world-and to establish the
relation Of Individual citizenship to the state on
the basis of nalienabe 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"