Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-12
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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there was born in a leg cabin in Kentucky, Abraham
Lincoln who down the present day stands preemnent
for all that is best in American life.
AS an exempar to American youth of the possibility
Of the most oWy born to achieve the greatest heights
Abraham Lincon's life is and will ever be the guiding
star of all those consecrated to free government of
the people, by the people and for the people,"
More than George Washington or any other Ameri-
that ever lived Lincoln typifed America, free and
unshackled with equal rights and opportunities for all
Abraham Lincoln viewed the constitution the peoples
bill Of RIGHTS and not instrument to be warped and
disregarded in the matter Of political expediency.
The clownish Lincoln that has been portrayed in
many histories never in fact existed The real Lincoln
Of sorrows-a naturally peace-loving man
charged with the task of conducting fratricda strife
for the preservation of the union which he so dearly
loved
The four and fraction years that Lincoln passed in
the White House years charged with intense suffer-
ing the greahearted president daily received reports
of the battle losses of his countrymen.
Visualize man. with little or no training or prepa-
ration suddenly thrust into the presidency at the most
perous moment in the history of the great republic 1t
not only the south that in revolt against the
central government but large minority of the north
devotng its best efforts to render nugatory the
purpose of Lincoln in preserving the union
In the dark days of the Civil war when Lincoln was
comforted only by his abiding faith in the land of the
OF the Almighty that ruled ALL he cung to his pur
pose with the tenacity of Grant and the highminded
ness of Lee.
Discouagements of his subordnates and of congress
brushed away, Lincoln steadfasty steered the
ship Of state toward his goal country undivsible
The greatest tragedy in American history, aside from
wars was the assassination Of Abraham Lincoln by j.
Wilkes Booth
Never had the country needed the guidance of a
president it did in the reconstruction days
following the war
It in such work that Abraham Lincoln would
have delighted. He was by nature endowed with the
divine gift of sympathy RancOr laid not in his breast
for beaten foe but the love of father welcoming the
prodigaPs return.
His immortal speech at Gettysburg was guarantee
that he could not have permitted the carpebagger days.
allowed the political despoilation of chastened
people.
Much of the political rancor and bitterness that has
existed IN this country since the Civil be traced
to the bullet Of the assassin Booth and the removal Of
Abraham Lincoln from the White House at time when
his talents were most needed
Today, with the United States occupying state of
national development before attained by any
nation is most desirable that the people recall to their
minds the name and public service of the preserver of
the union and again reconsecrate themselves to gov
ernment OF freedom and right.
AS Lincoln once remarked "You can fool part of the
people all the tme and all of the people part of the
time but you can't fool all the people all the time"
4 comprehensive study Of his life from youth when
ne gained his education from the few books available
on the frontier, through his days of cerkship in al
country store service in the Black Hawk war and final
admission to the bar would dffuse Of the homely
wisdom that flowed in stream from the mental spring
of Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln was father of the republican party and the
party will do we'll long as it remembers its creator
and no longer.