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Caption: Booklet - Life of President Lincoln on his Birthday (1896)
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It was this knowledge of tin* southern peopl< which enabled him to take the course and take it promptly, which prevented his native state with her great associates upon the border line from following the six sisters with which they wen closelv allied and which had a l r e a d y assumed to go out of t he Union, and t h u s to win at the outsel a memorable triumph in administration without which we cannot but fear that t h e struggle for t h e union must have broken in disaster, [t w a s t h i s sympathy with the south which led him to ting Ins most drastic official acts with expressions of f( diners so kindly to the south t h a t no m a n could be embittered unless a l r e a d y crazed by passion, and which gives his memory a recognized place in t h e w a r m feelings of t h e g r e a t South-land to-day. SYMPATHY WITH T H E PEOPLE. A b r a h a m Lincoln w a s t h e child of t h e common people. T h e training- for his g r e a t w o r k was in t h e school of poverty and of toil. His rough pioneer life opened to him t h e secret springs of human aetion. I t w a s n o t money, but b r a w n which could put down t h e Rebellion. T h e people of the n o r t h had been separated by political discussion and h a t e . T h e v were to be united in feelLng before an a r m y could be marshalled. His sagacious words, born of his experiences in Illinois, did the work. Could the great NYw York senator* have said from his standpoint what I heard Mr*. Lincoln say to t h e New York legislature, and with like effect? Hear him: 4 *I dee in it just to you, to myself and to all. that I should sec everything; t h a t I should hear everything; t h a t I should have every Lighl that can be brought within my reach, in order thai when I <\^ I shall have enjoyed every opportunity s o speal
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