Newspaper Page Text
., / -. amE I Hrb~1 INCOLN had all Shumanity for mourners. From the countless en logios spokei {. and written as tributes to his greatness the fol lowing are se lected as repre ' .:. enting the views of the poetic philoso ' pher, the frank and dispassionate for -:, eigner and the equally candid political - 0'femawn. Ralph Waldo Emerson's thoughts were spoken April 19, 1865, athe funeral services held in Concord. tHer briefly recalling the marvelous xi"of Lincoln from comparative ob s !ourity' to worldwide greatness Mr. Ton proceeded : j 'ý pglain .man of the people, an ex y fortune attended him. Lord S says:, 'Manifest virtues procure in ; occult- ones, fortune.' IHe sno shining qualities at the first r; hbe did not offend by superi S`Hhad.a face and manner which suspicion, which inspired :which confirmed good will. S.man without vices. -He had a ae of 0:. ty which it was very to' obey. Then he had what .al 1~~ t .head; was excellent St4 the sum for himself; in . c -iae and convincing you ,rmnly. Then it turned out i: great worker, had prodi [#. y fperformanoe, worked A ,~ e rris so rare; every qualitgy. In a b.th!, together t leaders -.ooaoei-or by love r thrgyý, ' or by a ea~. saoe disqual tw )M ot. of the aan sa sound to the all right for fth iof state was This mid. gt middle class e Yee manners, not i: powers, for his His mind mas '. the day, and, as o W. 'did his compre-. ' Y Was iman, so fitted th n midst of fears and e1 of counsels and ht- in essantly nan , all his honesty, ' the ople wanted, ' F °mat. It. cannot be 5, pi aggvtion of. his S-wau fairly tested, .a n laok of` resist- i - a uni'o ridicule. *asioa was the! a-no .fair ~a 'Ai\F q I enllurance, ias Icrflixy or resources, nam r magnanimity, were sorely tried and "- never found wanting. There, by his courage, his justice, his even temper, his i fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood a heroic figure in the center of a he roic epoch. He is the true history of the - American people in his time. Step by - step he walked before them; slow with their slowness, quickening his march to theirs; the true representative of this continent; an entirely public man; father of his country, the pulse of 20, 000,000 throbbing in his heart, the thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. " A year after the assassination of Lin coln there appeared in Blackwood's Ed inburgh Magazine a critical review of the careers of Presidents Andrew Jack son and Abraham Lincoln. Both were classed as saviors of the American Union. Passing from the discussion of free trade, protection and nullification as the causes of strife betwixt the seo tions, the review enters upon the crisis which confronted Lincoln in 1861: "It fell to the lot of a man very differ ent from Andrew Jackson to wage the second battle for the preservation of the Union, on a plea more exasperating than free trade, on an issue more stu pendous and on a scale of grandeur which no war between the states "in Jackson's comparatively early time could possible have equaled. From 1888 to 1860 southern statesmen had been contemplating, if they had not been planning, the disruption of the Union. Northern statesmen were aware of the fact. Some of them were reconciled to it, and others were resolved to aid in its consummation, ,not a few of them for the sake of the north itself, which they imagined would be better without scath ern coompanionship. Time but increased the bitterness and widened the estrange ment of one section against the other. When secession at last was acoom plished, the south was prepared at most points, the north at none, and a man was at the head of affairs who on a.basty or superficial judgment might have been pronounced singularly in efficient and unsuited for the task of co ercion which cruel fate had thrust upon him. Like his great predecessor Jackson, no w ap a mar or te people, woanost culture or manners. Unlike Jackson, however, he had the instincts, if not the education, of a gentleman; was no row dy, no drunkard, no profane swearer, but a plain, honest, quiet, quaint, good I man, with no strong will, but with a very strong seouse of duty. Jackson oared a little either for free trade or protection, but he cared very much for the Union, In like manner AMbaham Lincoln cared a little for the negro or his freedom, I though he disliked slavery, but he oared t greatly and with his whole heart ands I soul for the Union. a wPushed on and backed up by e I wil of the .ewit-Wthout any WillQti r L yy :ýºaý aari+ý ý ea rrom nogma to aeogma, trom doctrine to doctrine, from principle to principle, by external rather than by internal i-n pulses, and with a sad heart that he should have to do, even under the pres sure of overpowering state necessity, anything inconsistent with that consti tution which Washington and Jefferson had made, and which A brahamn Lincoln had sworn to uphold. Andrew Jackson put down nullification; Abraham Lin coln did not put down secession. What the one did by force of his own will the other did by the force of the will of th, people. The one was the fiery horse, acting by his own volition; the other was but the inert carriage drawn by the stalwart muscle of the crowd. Jack son did well, but Lincoln did better. Jackson accomplished less than he in tended, but Lincoln far more than h( hoped, or that at the outset of his ca reer he could even have dreamed of. That he who would merely circumscribe slavery within its existing limits and who was conscientiously of opinion that if every negro in America left Americra and went back to the native Africa of his fathers and grandfathers, it would be better for America and better for the negro should by the stroke of his pen by the war power, and contrary to the spirit and letter of the constitution abolish slavery, was the result of the sti~ggle that in the first two years of its fury he was the last man in the Union to imagine. Yet so it was. The weak man became strong by the irre sistible strength of events. In Jackson's time the love of the Union in the north was but a latent feeling; in Lincoln's it was an irresistible force, and, lashed into fury b the passions of the war, would have eferred the utter desola tion of the southern states-their con version into the original wilderness and the extermination or banishment of their whole population-rather than see them by their own exertions or the aid of a foreign state erected into an inde pendent Confederacy. This good and merciful man was good and merciful to the end. Even when the south was on the point of collapse, when its hope of foreign recognition had long since died away, when its armies were reduced to the minimum of hope as well as of numbers, when in mingled pride and despair it refused to arm the negroes, preferring conquest by its white broth erato independence to be purchased by the aid of black soldiers, Mr. Lincoln was ready and anxious to grant honor able terms of surrender. In the flush of victory there was much he could have done which no other man could have attempted. He could have issued a gen eral amnesty, he could have declared the Union restored in fact and in theory on the sole condition that his military proclamation for the abolition of slav ery should be adopted by every south ern state as the basis of a legal enact ment. But this great and happy result was.not to be attained. The pistol of a fanatic deprived the southern people of a friend and the northern people of a man after their own hearts, who through good and ill fortune had fought their fight with a humble, a contrite and an honest spirit and given them the victories. " Southerners who were actively hostile to Mr. Lincoln during the war have since freely expressed their high appre ciation of his noble traits. In a recent utterance upon war issues the noted southern editor, Henry Watterson, sum med up the view most prevalent among 1 thinking people of the old Confederate section. Said he: "Lincoln himself was a southern man. He had no prejudice against the south or the southern people. There was hardly a day during the war that he was not projecting his great personality between some southern man or woman and danger, and so free from vindictivQ ness or excitement of any sort was his mind that it cost him nothing to stand upon the reolution of congress of 1801, wbtOh oahs~se thattLh wha er Wua wa ne o..u.ty to preserve ebo Union. " to, Long before Watterson spoke Lieu. n" tenant General Longstroot, the moiLst he prominent living representative of L(oc's as- armies, penned this brief but forciblU, y, eulogy upon the n:ortyred war picsi :i- dent: nn "Without doubt the greatest mnan of In rebellion times, t.he one matchless )n among 40,000,000 fr," the peculiar di;li u- culties of the period, was Abraham Lin at coi. " At Home Again. e, "I defy any man to stay away from ei his native town so long that on his re )> turn there will be nothing left to re k mind him of the old days," said a sue r. cessful western man, who had just paid a- a visit to his birthplace, a little village u of northern New Hampshire. a "When I saw Trowbury, after a lapse f. of 40 years, it seemed to Ime there was )c not a single thing which had remained td unchanged. The town has become a it place of mills and industry; all its old : sleepy charm is gone. My old schoolfel ft lows are gray headed, sober men, and d the men of 40 years ago are either tot oe tering with age or at rest in the grave - yard. to "When I saw my old chums, 'Bounc. - ing Bob'-so named from his prodigious ic weight-and 'Slab' Peters, whose nanmo )f was also the result of nature's allot )e ment of flesh, my heart sank, for Bonuc Le ing Bob is lank and bony, while Slab 3- Peters would require two seats in a i street car. b " 'Doubting' Phipps, who used to mis s trust all statements, whether as to the d shape of the globe or the price of pea nuts, I was told lived on a farm so far - away that he seldom came to town. "The night before Icame away I was d telling a couple of young men at the f postoffice something about my wheat e farm, in answer to their questions. d "I had just made a statement in re gard to the number of bushels yielded d the year before, when I was startled by o a drawling voice behind me, proceeding a from a man who had entered the store f while my back was turned. ` " 'Sounds very fine,' said the voice, o 'but I mistrust it can't be true.' f "The two young men turned with in C tolerant haste to confront the newcomer, but I wheeled around with a sudden feeling of warmth at my heart. 9 " 'You are Doubting Phipps, I know !' SI cried, holding out both hands, and I was not mistaken. We talked for an f hour, and at the end of that time I felt that Trowbury was still Trowbury. " B Youth's Companion. 1 The Comfort of Labor. 7 "I suppose," said Mr. Staybolt, "that t most of us, as between wealth with idleness and poverty with occupatica, would choose wealth, but I am noti so . sure that I would myself. In fact, the t older I grow the more I am convine:,d z that next to the love of those we hold e dearest, of parents, wives and cbildren,' k the greatest boon to man is labor. Pov . erty with occupation would in.ply the power to labor, and that would mean, freedom from want. And occuipation means also freedom from care. The man. who becomes interested in his work for gets his troubles, and he finds besides a pleasure in seeing the results of his la bor take form and grow, the pleasure of attainment. "The man who does not find enjoy ment in labor misses the most satisfac tory of life's pleasures. "-New York A Shattered Idol. Barnes--That ettles it. Dr. 1iowsit can never prescribe for me again. I used to think he knew something, but my confidence in him has been completely destroyed. Apsley-What's happened to oBange your opinion of him? Barnesa-He has been giving expert testimony in a murder tril"7Oevela , U . - .. . ; 7 . , : -:_, . . , , ' " - "- " . ,,'. :.: -':: '= ' '€ ? . ."_