Public Celebrations of the Birthday of Abraham Lincoln
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Excerpt from Public Celebrations of the Birthday of Abraham Lincoln: Under the Auspices of Lincoln Council, No; 68, National Union, 1888-1893 Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus delivered an address, of which the following is a brief abstract: blessed is that land that has many great anniversaries! Happy is that country which has so many blessed memories, that in a fortnight may occur the birthdays of such men as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln! The influence of great men is strong and active, but in Republics their import is so marked, that we may well pause to-night and inquire into their meaning to us. A century ago, the question of the day was simply the question of existence. The problem was one of national life, and George Washington came forward and met the crisis. There are many things in Washington´s history that link themselves strangely with the life of Abraham Lincoln. In his day, great traditions lingered in the minds of men who had come across the sea, and there was such a commingling of visions and ideas as seemed to make it impossible that this country should have anything like a stable government; and when the arm of England was raised against the colonies, the problem was the securing of a leader who would link together these varied elements and lead them on to victory. Then up from Virginia was seen coming a man, the marvelous general, the matchless statesman, of our first revolution - George Washington. There was a largely similar situation at the opening of the Rebellion. In New England were the Puritans; in the middle states the Scotch-Irish, and the descendents of William the Silent and William Penn; and in the west the common offspring of them all. Two great ideas had landed on these shores, which had been in deadly conflict since the birth of Christian love and Christian thought - that right makes might and might makes right. George Washington, who had welded together the Puritan and the Cavalier, saw the coming conflict over the rights of man, and never assented heartily to the compromises of the Constitution. After the Revolution, the spirit nursed by the Cavalier element grew and thrived. Men were occupied with material problems. In this long period, we see lifting themselves up out of history, men whose importance can only be known when they are compared with the men who are to lead these elements on to victory. William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips wrote and plead, but politicians were frozen with fear, and the church stood with its pulpit mortgaged to slavery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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