Abraham Lincoln
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Peck, George R.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: A Response at the Annual Banquet of the Marquette Club of Chicago, on the Birthday of Abraham Lincoln, February 12th, 1895 If the Marquette Club were called upon to give a justification for its existence it could find it here and now. One name to-night is in every heart and upon every lip, and that name belongs in a certain special sense to you. It belongs to you because your orginization is based upon the ideas, the hope and the faith that were in him. It belongs to you as the lighthouse does to the mariner who steers his bark by its steadfast ray. Whatever sad and heroic memories cluster around his great career, something of their glory, some breath of their fragrance, rests upon all who strive to make the United States of America such a nation as Abraham Lincoln strove to make it. I bid you, therefore, good cheer, Mr. President, and salute you and your club with the old-time greeting of an old-time Republican. Carlyle was not far from right in adoring heroes; and he was more than right in seeing that heroes do not, of necessity, wear plumes and sabers. It is the meek, and not the mighty, who are promised the inheritance of the earth. Luther was a greater conquerer than Von Moltke, and Victor Hugo in exile was assuredly a nobler figure than the Third Napoleon at Solferino. Ideal characters cannot be made to order. They must stand for something more than accident, for something better than titles and dignities. All our great American names are connected in some way with the idea of nationality, of growth, of intellectual progress. 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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