Caption: Booklet - Life of President Lincoln on his Birthday (1896)
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It \\ as t his km>w led e ' > t he soul hern ) f which enabled him to take the < >urs and tal it promptly which prevented his native b: it.- with her great associates upon the borderline fr mi I I winir the six sisters with which thej w closelv allied and which had already assuim I cto out of the Union, a ml thus to win at the outs I i memorable triumph in administration with ut which we cannot but fear thai the strug t r th union must have broken in disaster. It was this \ m: ithy with the south which led him to tii his most drastic official acts with expressions of liners so kindly to the south thai no man could 1 embittered unless already craz d by passion, iml which gives his memory a recognized place in he warm feelings ^\' the great South-land to-day. 81 Ml' \ Ml Y \\ I I'll T H E n o n I. Abraham Lincoln was the child of the < unmou pcoph-. The training for his great work was in the school *>\' poverty and n( toil. His i >ugh pioneer life opened to him the secret springs human action. It was not iii.nicv, hut brawn which couhl put down the Rebellion. The pe >ple the north had been separated l»v political dis tua ion and hate. They were to be united in -elii I >re an army c>uhl be marshalled. His sa ions words, born of Ids experiences in llli "••is. did the work. Could the real \ew York aator hai laid from his standpoint what I heard Vlr. Lincoln lay to the New York le atun and ith like effect ? I!< ir him: I d( in it just to you, to myself and to all, t hat I 1 ' >Uld > e e v e r y t hill; t hat I s h o u l d Ir i r e \ » T \ tiiii ^ i that I should hai lit w it h i n inv n K h. iL I ha II ha \ en everj light \ »d \ er\ that can In opt) rt u n i t \ in o r d ( t t h a t w Ir n I | |
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