Celebration of Abraham Lincoln´s Birthday
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Excerpt from Celebration of Abraham Lincoln´s Birthday: And Second Anniversary of Institution of General James Shields Council No; 967 Knights of Columbus, Congress Hall, West Congress and Honore Streets, Chicago, III., Tuesday, February 12, 1907, at 8 P. M Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentleman. It is only two years short of a century now, since Lincoln was born. It is almost forty-two years since he died. In that time he lived the most conspicuous and the most useful life, barring, perhaps, the Father of his Country, of any secular American. If I tried, I could only elaborate upon the beautiful sketch of him given this evening in Markhams poem, "The Man of the People;" the man who born out of the red earth; who mixed with that earth the laughter as well as the pathos of humanity: and who lived under a commission from the Almighty, that this country might at its critical period meet fully and justly its responsibilities. He was born in Kentuck - in the little hill country in Kentucky - and he lived there until he had almost grown into young manhood. It was a wise providence that he was born among a slave-holding people. Then, as now, men were so constituted that they could not see the justice of the other mans point of view. The north particularly - the New England north - could not understand how there could be any humanity in the slaveholder, or how the slave himself could be anything else than a brutalized, unfortunate human being. On the other hand, the slave-holder of the south looked upon the northern New Englander and northern abolitionist as an intermeddler. He could not understand how there could be such fanaticism, such narrowness, such a failure to comprehend other peoples point of view, as was exhibited by Garrison and Lovejoy, and other men who represented the abolition cause. God appointed Lincoln to be born among the slaves, and with the slave-holders, in one of the border states between the north and the south, that when the supreme moment of his life, and the supreme moment of the national life came, he might have the comprehension, not simply from the point of view of the hills of New England, but from the point of view of the hills of Kentucky and Tennessee, and the rice fields and the cotton plantations of South Carolina and Georgia as well. Lincoln came as a young man to Indiana, and there met that throbbing young pioneer life of Americanism that had just crossed the Alleghenies. and was plodding over the Mississippi Valley: and from Indiana he came into our own plains here of Illinois: leading until he was fifty years of age, or nearly fifty years of age, an inconspicuous life - almost an obscure life. 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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