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Show Concerning the Living Lincoln. "It was my pleasure to have known President Lincoln personally," said Alexander McDowell, clerk of the house. "I talked with him on several occasions, in Washington and at the front, and jphile I knew him well I do not flatter myself that he knew ma well, for there was only one of him and there were forty millions of me. What struck me above all else was his simplicity and every-day common sense. . "He met all mem as equalB, not in a patronizing way, but in a way that said as plain as words, We are all of one blood, and brothers. He was a great man and he was the only one in all the land that did not know it. "He always remembered his early struggles and poverty, and with a sympathy sym-pathy born of them was ever ready to give a helping hand to those compelled to travel the road that he had been compelled to travel in his youth and early manhood. "He was a Christian, not a church member and did by his actions what sq many do by their professions only. His life was the golden rule in action. He loved and had faith in hie fellow-man, fellow-man, and stood at all times ready to hold the ladder Arm while they ascended as-cended and no jealous envy ever entered en-tered his mind, no matter bow high the ascent. "He was a Republican and a partisan, parti-san, but above all a patriot and a lover of his country. We need today partisan par-tisan Republicans and partisan Democrats, Demo-crats, men who believe in their duty and the principles of their parties and not bo many guerrillas that feed between be-tween the lines, now on one side and then on the other. "In his death the south lost a sincere, sin-cere, honest friend and the nation a patriot." Joe Mitchell Chappie, in : "Affairs at Washington." In National Mag&slaa. |