Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-08

Lincoln, who came to Massachusetts from Eng
land in 1887. And the Lincolns were sturdy faIa-
ily There was Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln (173Sr
1870, who received Lord CORVALLIS sword in
surrender at Yorktown Enoch Lincoln Q7oS-
1929 was governor Of Maine, 1929 Levi Lin
coin (17491820) was United States attorney gem
eral 1801-5. Another Levi Lincoln (17S2-1868) was
governor of Massachusetts 1S25-34 and member of
congress 1854.
Abraham Lincon's immediate ancestors chose
to go pioneering. New England was too settled
for them. They were of the type of American plo-
neer who moved on as soon as he saw neighbor'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. It 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 ak, roof over his head and crop in
the ground is neither poor nor obscure.
Lincoln cathedral is one of the finest in Eng
land 1t was in process of erection from 1875 to
1901. 1t is of early English architecture and is
524 by so feet, with matchless central tower 271
feet high The cathedrals famous bell, "Great
Tom of Lincoln weighs about 5@ tons. The north
gate of Lindum Coonia still stands and is the only
Roman care in Britain still in use. Not far away
is Boston, the mother of our Boston.
What Lincoln and Lincon's birthday mean to
the English-speakng nations of earth cannot be
better said than was said by EEihu Root at the
presentation of the Saint-Gaudens statue of Lin
coln the gift of America to the British people, He
said, among other things:
''Put aside superficial difference, accidental and
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 e-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
"Ie 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 century and a 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
It's life according to the course OF the common
law to assert it's popular sovereignty through rep.
resentative government-Britan's great gift to the
noltical science of the woodland to- establish the
relation of individual citizenship to the state on
the basis of inalienable rights which governments
are established to It is the identity of these
fundamental conceptions in both countries which
makes it impossible that in any great world
emergency Britain and America can be oppos-
ing Sides These conceptions Of justice and liberty
are the breath of life for both"