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Caption: Booklet - Life of President Lincoln on his Birthday (1896)
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mblic 1 e, a n \\\ under the searchli hi of publi invest at ion. Kven his first love ha li th plain name I Vnn Rutled toafames tin that all patri tic Americans are tempi «l t« mi ne> far that the\ mav drop a sympath tic t iro^ tho fair head at her luuuhlo and untim 1\ i\ u His liking for tho anonymous hymn, Oh! Win Should the Spirit oi Mortal be Proud?* lias immortalized it. Out o( all this thoughtful study there has -a-ow n i literature, both in prose and verse, which forms no small part (>\ the general literature o( the nation * or indeed of the Anglo-Saxon race. Out oJ this prolific literature 1 quickly draw a tow suggestions in the hope that they may have some special interest to this vast assemblage of the people o\ the University, supplemented so proudly by the residents of tho thrifty adjacent cities, the teachers and pupils of the public schools, and the veteran soldiers of the Grand Army of the Union, Illinoisans all, proud of our great state and cherishing all that has ennobled her life, we shall hope to find tmething in tho career of Abraham Lincoln in 111inois which specially qualified him for his remarkable n ^'d in the presidency and for his world-renow aed \\ ork, « 01 \K l OF BIRTH ANP SYMPATHY WITH VUV SOUTH None of as ran throw off the influences which sprinj ra the place of our nativity or the asso ciations >ur first years, Grounded as Mr, Lin >ln was in th principles oJ free government sti n as ho was in his love I r the humanities, ab horrent us he was of the slave system, it was fortu Date that he was born south of the Ohio and in slave state, and that his irlim* life was spent in
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