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No Other American farm Save Mount
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Cpyrh IPOO by American Press Aaoelatlon
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VO milts from
iroilgimvllletKy
is a one hundred
and ten acre
farm that raises
little except pa
triotism The
trlotlSluTberops
crops on it aro
for ttltt input
part stunted and
have a discour
aged appearance
Perhaps this de
jection c a in e s
from dodging
about to tnlsg
the rocks or from
trying to find
fertility in the
soil a hopeless
task vyhatever
the ca v sjKrthfi
a fJlctr > IIJnt t
LrfiCOLN nt 1862 the 1Qrtgtyrwiftnt
tnw unable to make enough fromtbn
pfeee to meet the ngns jIV ng the
ewtfieBt one of record u certnb fawner
carpenter of the name of Tb nms Lin
ae1u failed to get enough out of the
fcarron acres to pay for th > w
Yet this stony unprodacHv spot of
earth is now one of tho worlds
shrines On Feb 12 presidents gov
errors judges cardinals and cabinet
ministers foregather Uiors to orate and
dedicate these rocks and sttfrlle soil
patches to the p oplw for all the days
tdcome On one of the hills a white
memorial hall patterned after a Greek
tomple will likewise be consecrated
aIHlloft as a Mecca for future genera
Mane The temple incloses an old erne
Mai log cabin with a stick UtuinSJ
i one door one window and nQ 0ff T
tL In this cabin was bop alai
tfefid whom the world has trtttpa fa fts
ieart Abraham Lliicolu war president
sad liberator man of meekness mind
mercy strange compound of sorrow
mNWWWW1
MBS Ln corN m 1861
id of laughter lie the baby that
me here of parents poor and almost
a ijlterate Is the reason for the temple
k r the crowds and for the oratory
He is likewise the reason for the na
t 2t n existing at all in its present form
these humble acres aro not all un
ductlvo even though they cannot
I glow crops for they brought forth a
neat soul to lead a people from bond
jeSe and to place before mens eyes u
J iype of charity and forbearance that
J lll make us all tenderer and better
for having seen
7 The Lincoln farm after passing out
F of the ownership of Thomas Lincoln
f iiplonged for many years to a family
a the name of Creal after which it
t
i i as bought by a New Yolk capitalist
h i j3Ir Dennett who made some 1m
1vcmeuts on It with the idea of
t lunging It into a national park This
Irs abandoned however because of
otji
I tied up in the litigation of the Den
tt estate and for years was negleet
t 010 At last It was sold at public auc
OJ ton by the authorities of Larue coun
si Ky when It was purchased by
t OJin
1 Richard Lloyd Jones as a representa
tive of Robert J Collier A Lincoln
farm association was formed with
I 1t Folk of Missouri at its bead
apd various distinguished men on its
4 directorate To this body Mr Collier
turned over the farm popular sub I
memorialf
f
other fmc
CuITdtng was erected and
c provements wore made As a result
the Lincoln birthplace farm on Feb
J2 will be opened to the public as a
national park From a scenic aspect
j i It is n beautiful spot Near to the
plaza fronting the memorial building
fa the famous rock spring and not far
f r distant Is u picturesque creek on the
ftApks of which the boy Lincoln play
J edIn
4 In addition to the dedication of the
JBucm n statue of Lincoln will be un
Yeftfed In Uodgenvllle More Important
s attll It Is now practically certain that
some form of memorial will be erected
at Washington n step that should
have been taken long ado
Everything connected with Abra
tam Lincoln Is hold precious by the
American people Ills bhthplaco and
rigs tomb Ills acts and his words tho
people with whom ho associated all
are objects of a popular Interest such
few men in
aroused by
1as has been
the history of nations Compared
nrtth Lincolns simple greatness most
nti the character grouped arpund him
r in writer by coatftst This la true even
e W3 family lproae I feel that Jas
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tip
tlce has tifiver boon gone Mrs Lincoln
She was not without a prophetic qurtl
ity in divining her husbands future
emlnqnce she bad spiritual iuslghf
she suffcrod many sorrows and de
spite her difference from Mr Lincoln
In temperament and Inherited manners
quit beliefs elie was loyal to him
throughout
One Hother chtfracter has been mini
mized much in the same way William
H Seward Lincolns chief competitor
for the presidential nomination and
afterward his secretary of state One
tfilug that can be said for Scward Is
tbnthe was man enough to1 acknowl
edge Lincolns greatness when ho easy
It He refused to plot against his
chief as did some of his fellow mem
bars of the cabinet He was a wise
counselor and unselfish statesman He
bad enough foresight to but AJnsKji
when the public Scoffed at him lot the
act The truth about Seward is that
he wits of a very high type but not
withstanding his height was overshadowed
r r
shadowed
Mr Lincolns life falls Into two
great divisions that preceding the re
peal of the Missouri compromise and
the formation of the Republican par
ty nnd that following these twin
events His one term in congress was
the last Important public Service In
tho fiat period Following this were
five or1 sis years of law with little or
no politics In congregs Lincoln had
gained a reputation us u story teller
and wit had made one or two cam
paign speeches bad Introduced n
measure to nbollsh slavery In the DIs
trlct of Columbia and had refused to
stty t hat the Mexican war was right
qlbuH Following his term he had aPi
piled for the office of land commission
8r to which he had not been appoint
i > c1s and had been offered the governor
sQbof Oregon which he declined hi
IjStjQ JjP refused another nomination
ttf = Vougre88 and in 1852 delivered a
eulogy on Henry Clay It wits In 18j > 4
that he really reentered politics ho
Ing Htlrred thereto by the rupeal of
the MlHBQurl compromise That year
lit wuA elected to the legislature but
refused to serve He was also a can
rjidiijf for United States senator com
IIIK within n few votes of winning
With rune unselfishness he threw all
his strength to Lyman Trumbull and
pjeotpd him For Lincoln to go to
Tminhull nhp had but a handful of
supporters was like the tall wagging
the dbKbutJt prevented the election
of II proslavory man
manI
Jp 18fiR ftlr Lincoln participated in
the foniiiillon of tht Republican party
making ht great lost speech at
Bloonilngton He also received 110
TotS for vice president in the Repub
lican national convention nnd ran for
t lector on the Fremont ticket Two I
pears Inter came his groat debates j
tvlth Douglas which were held at Ot
aiwa Freeport Jonesboro Charleston
Salesburg Quincy and Alton As a
result he had a popular majority but
was beaten by holdover senators and
a gerrymander
gerrymanderFollowing
Following the struggle with Doug
las Mr Lincoln made speeches in Ohio
Kansas Ndw England and the famous
address In Cooper Union Now York
Early In 1860 the Illinois state convene
Ion instructed for him for president
and In the national convention that
mot at Chicago May lOjlU he was
nominated on the third ballot In the
following campaign Mr Lincoln n
malned at home and declined to make
speeches The Democratic party split
on slavery which made his vluctluu
possible Following the aunounriMUKiit
3f the result many of the Minitmru
states seceded but the president HWJ
refused to be drawn Into nay public
utterance as to his policy On Vuu 11
L801 he started to Washington innk
ing a few short addresses on the way
and secretly pausing through Haiti
more because of rumor < if iiotmhio
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his history bPCdiuu mitt or rim roumry
in her most glganuc BtrugKiv Tlu till
promo events of hilt itUiiituiHtintlnii un
they OffCt his fame vwr riu IH UUIU t >
of the emancipation proulumutum mi
Sept 22 18tr and Its otiUIul ptotuui
gatlon on the 1st of January following
i Vicksburg and GfttyaburK OH July
14 1803 the Gettysburg uddnJ1J on
i Nov 10 J803 the second election to
hthe presidency and second Inaugural
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tC OMEWHAE down thar round Hodgenville Kaintucky
Or tharabouts a hundred year ago
Was born a boy ye wouldn thought was lucky
looked like he never wouldn have a show
But If I don know
That boy was started middlin well Im thinkin1
His name Wy it was Abraham Abe Lincoln I
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ORE whites his folks was Yes as pore as any f
P V Them pioneers they want no plutocrats
belonged right down among the humble many
And no mere property than dogs or cats i1
But maybe thats I I
As good n1 way as any for a startin C t
Abe Lincoln he riz middlin high for sartin
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C OliEHOW Ive always hack a sort 01 sneakin I +
5OMHOW that peddygrees is purty much tt 11
Like monkeys tailsso long theyre apt to weaken
The yap that drags em round No use for such I
But beats the Dutch
How now and then a lad like Little Aby 1
Grows up a presidentor guvnor maybe k
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J BE LINCOLN never had no reglar schooling
He never quarterbacked nor pulled stroke oar f
f Nor never spent his time and money fodlin 1
With buried langwidges and ancient lore r
But Abe Yarned more
To set him forrerd in the human fun 7
Than all the college fellers kit and bilin1 b
ABE LINCOLN never did git hifalutin
A Not even thar in Washintori i C
> He jist kep common humble ordnry suitin
His backwoods corn patch raisin to a T
But III jiminy gee
iAud
And wise as Solomon or old EzekulJIo
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RECKON Im a bit old fashioned maybe
IRECKON But when I want a pattern for a man t
Im middlin shore to measure Father Aby
And cut to fit his homely human plan I
And longs I can
Im hootin loud and robtiri proud by huoky
For that old boy from Hodgenville Kaintucky II
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The Gettysburg Address I
Remarks at the Dedication of the National Cemetery at Ge r rltI
November 19 1803 v
FOURSCORE and seven years ago our fathers brought fortupon
F this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated
to the proposition that all men are created equal I
Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether ati
nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endUre
We are met on a great battlefield of that war We have come to dedi i
cate a portion of that field as a final resting place for thos6 who here
gave their lives that that nation might live It is altogether fitting
and proper that we should do this
IBut in a larger sense we I cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate
we cannot hallow this ground The brave men living and dead who
struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or de 1
tract The world will little note nor long remember what we say hereI
but it can never forget what they did hers It is for us the living
rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who I
fought here have thus far so nobly advanced It is rather for us to
be here dedicated to the great task rcinahiing before uRthpt romI
these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for wtich j
they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly re
solve that these dead shall not have died in vain that ths nition under
IGod shall have a new biT if freedom and that government of the j
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theh
h worlds great
men born In
1SOS and whose
centenaries will
therefore be cel
ebrated during
the present year
rearlIs
Is surprisingly
large The num
ber reaches Into
j wtLKts Doom the scores Chief
among the poets werr Tennyson Poe
Holmes Fitzgerald nnd Lord Hough
ton Of musicians there were Chopin
nnd Mendelssohn of scientists Dar i
win and many lesser lights of fight
ers Admiral Dahlgren Kit Carson
Marshal Canrobert of statesmen
Gladstone Hannibal HamlIn and Abram
ham Lincoln
i Lincoln and Darin perhaps the
most celebrated of the list were born
oh the same day One abolished chat
tel slavery preserved the worlds
greatest republic and set democratic
government n long step forward the
other revolutionized science and wrote
the word evolution into the lan
guage and thoughts of men
Lincolns fame has grown with ev
ery hour since his death and Is yet
growing His hold on tae hearts of
men comes not alone from hiM nets
These but brought him Into the public
eye It was the sweetness of his char
ncter his mercy and simplicity his
loyalty to truth his homely common
sense his literary quality nnd his per
fect democracy that have given him
second If not first place among the
great men of his own land and won
him the affection of all lauds e
The centenary of his birth on Feb
12 will be celebrated as has been that
of no other American On the birth
place farm In Kentucky a memorial
building will be dedicated speechos
being delivered by President Roose
telt Secretary df ° War Luke E
Wright Supreme Court Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes Cardinal Gibbons
and Governors Folk of Missouri and
Wlllson of Kentucky The address of
President Roosevelt while short will
be It is believed one of his most am
bitious efforts It will constitute prac
tically his last important utterance as
president and he designs to place It
as nearly In the class with Lincolns
Gettysburg address as he is able The
memorial building itself is small and
of simple but classic design Sur
rounded by Greek pillars and up
proached by broad flights of steps It
makes n striking appearance on tho
humble Kentucky farm U complete
ly surround and Incloses the little
log cabin In Which Lincoln was born
which after its wanderings has been
reerected on its original site At the
foot of the steps are a broad sward and
driveway with a flagstaff in the cen
ter Near by Is the rock spring which
was famous even in Lincolns day
All of this with the remainder of the
farm which will bo left much as it
was before is to be thrown open to
the public as a national park on Fob
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The Lincoln centenary will also be
elaborately celebrated at the tomb of
the martyr president and his former
home in Springfield at most of the
large cities and in the churches and
elsewhere all over the United States
and in some form throughout the
world
Two men whose lines of fate cross
ed those of Abraham Lincoln in a
strange and one of them in a sinister
way were Stephen A Douglas and
John Wilkes Booth Lincoln and
Douglas were lifelong political foes
rivals for the hand of the same girl
rivals for the senatorship rivals III
debate and rivals for the presidency
Lincoln won in every case except In
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ItE A DOUGLAS
the empty honor pf the formal elec
tion to tho sonatorshlp Even there
i ho had the popular majority and the
i month effect of victoryr t oddly
enough It was Douglas who fifty years
ago first pave Lincoln his opportu
nity iu achieve national fame The
debates between the two giants were
I the most celebrated In American po
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cola t pralMsttal candidate u 1SW
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slid Indirectly contributed to thojiDllN
ting of the Dernoohuio party j he
deciding of the election Od fwrtto
the two men ycsro personal friends
and in the test df war Judge Douglas
came valiantly tp President Lincolns
support As for Booth his motive In slaying
Lincoln has always been something
of a mystery That there was a con
spiracy and that bd entered into it
there seems little doubt but his rea
son for the step has never been made
clear Whether he had a private griev
ance acted through sentimental sym
pathy with the south or simply was
crazed by the great events of t
nod is yet a matter of contn
and doubtless will always reward o
Considering his talents and brilliant
family connections the last supposi
tion Is the probable nnd certaInty the
charitable one
Lincoln said that his early life
might be described in a line from
Gray The short and simple annals
of the poor Ho came of English
Quakers His parents while of good
family belonged to tho frontier had
little or no education and no money
The son was never burdened with i
those things himself His schooling
altogether did not amount to a year
I Yet ho taught himself rending omniv
1 orously such books as be could pro
I cure Fortunately these were the
bestthe Bible Shakespeare Aesop
Pilgrims Progress Thomas Paine
Robert Burns and the lives of Wash
ington nnd Clay
In 1810 the LIncolns left Kentucky
for Indiana and two years later the
mother died It was a time of Intense
I misery and saddened the boys life 1
LINCOLN IN 1801
All that I nm all that I hope to be
I owe to my angel mother he after
ward exclaimed In a year Thomas
Lincoln married a second time and
the stepmother came as near supply
ing the vacant place in young Abra
hams heart and life as any other be
ing could have done For the boy the
stay In Indiana consisted chiefly of
hard farm work with one flatboat
trip down the Mississippi near its end
Following his pioneer Instincts Tom
Lincoln In 1830 moved to TomI
That winter Abraham now his own
man split rails and started out In
the world for himself Tho next year
he took a second flatboat trip to New
Orleans and returned to clerk In a
grocery at New Salem In 1832 he
served as a captain in the Black
Hawk war and ran for the legislature
but was defeated In 1833 ho started
In the grocery business for himself
but his partner ran off poor Lincoln
failed and It took him years to pay
the debt
Lincoln tried for the legislature a
second time in 1834 and was elected
remaining In the house eight years a
part of which time he was minority
leader His chief acts as a legislator
were his advocacy of Internal Im
provements his protest against slav
ery and his leadership of the fight to
remove the state capital from Van
dally to Springfield
Other events occurring contempora
neously with this legislative experi
ence were briefly as follows 1ft 1834
and 1835 he acted as deputy Qvor
and ntudled law In Aut 1835
Ann Rutledge died throwing Lincoln
Into Indescribable gloom In 1830 he
was admitted to the bar forming a
partnership with John T Stuart In
1840 he was an elector on the Harri
son ticket In 1841 he formed n part
nership with Judge Stephen T Logon
and onNov 4 1842 he was married
to Miss Mary Todd of Kentucky
At the end of his legislative career
Mr Lincoln in 1843 formed his final
law partnership that with William H
Horndon which lasted to the end of
his life In 1844 ho was an elector on
the Clay ticket and in 140 was3ect i
rYltrlYspeaking
speaking the beginning ol fiuan
tlonal career although his real advent 4
as a national figure did not come until
a decade after his one term In congress
Vas ftnIJMAd
I colnModesty
In 1tJ when his bame was being
mentioned as n prospectivo candidate
for president Abraham Lincoln wrote
to nn editor who had suggested the
advisability of announcing his name
I muot In all candor par that I do
not think myself fit for the preaiden
y adt
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