Show I 1 deep impress lincoln left not equaled the centenary ot of abraham birth w wa as celebrated on february I 1 12 IW with an even en deeper interest than such events lly arouse in a nation since then lie jie lincoln legend has crown grown to the great emancipator have multiplied bach lach succeeding ot of his birth has been marked by what ha has come to be the usual impressive Impress he and cation wide observance abraham lincoln lias has been dead for nearly sixty three years bears few who remember bira him remain alive issues be raised have long since passed in many ways the thought ani the very feelings of the nation have changed and yet no fl flure ure tn in lla its his tory has ever so EI completely captured and held its imagination as to has this sorrowful eon son of the frontier here wa was a man who came c me of a wandering dering and illiterate sometimes ome tIme shiftless and aleays shifting and toot fout loose stock they knew little of bools books lie ile had fill schooling it waa was a family of pore folks la Is a new and I 1 pore country in that half balf faced camp tn in the indiana boods his mother hauht him his letters from the old blueback blue back speller of american tradition by the fie fi fl ev e glit he spelled out sentences from the statutes of indiana utraro somehow in that new raw country co the arabian meef 0 came into ills bands hands lie ile rend read the bible ehna speare 11 aesop a I 1 abl able s I 1 an I 1 til grime grim A Pro progress grems he ile knew tie tl e I 1 life of washington ton by old I 1 tarsi arst n lie ile dipped a quill pen made from the turkey lurle buzzards luz ning bentler tn in a homemade home made ink compounded compo of roots of the blackberry briar and copperas he rote with sith the tip up of a burnt stick or r a dead coal from the fireplace on 0 a fresh split clapboard one book had find a profound influence upon him film and rill ly upon american political history the I 1 lincoln family democrats lie ile lead tend in till hn boy hood the speeches of henry clay stiff with the strong and pungent IN doctrines of a century ago eg clay becarra to I 1 lincoln the beio be io ideal of a statesman men hen I 1 lincoln entered illinois politics in lie in as a big the of clay had lagl 11 I 1 cd ed a greater flame in the Suni San roon valley volley but clay adyln in 1842 1 mill his hi life work of doomed to ruin did not nt live to see the glory story of this new dew fire creat great by instinct out of the raw rough and ready school of frontier po itice and frontier lav law lincoln somehow brought the power yo and ad experience needed for the nation nations e greatest emergency and as the years revealed he brought something greater the word hum falls to describe it it included a deep understanding a 8 great generosity and an utter absence of malice and Andl etise nes somewhere up pound a trait tract to ark ned ried and LO ge illemann bora born to it t purple ever excelle excel ld lod lie fie own d a tested strength tried as by fire and as sure as steel tl TI ere was in him also a strange and almost la in describable bable fur for the right 1 I hen hi conquered it was wits by the power of truth that may be why 0 o other american statesman lias has left so to deep SQ on upon the tho thought and the ile imagination of the horld there ti to no more mote romantic daure in the a an n nals nal of than this abi tall a and ad strangely sorrowful sometimes hu morons and always burdened child of 0 the clearing clearl ns and tl it e prairies dignity and honesty hon city strength and generosity charity and understand ins ing were the hammers under shirb h be he welded a broken such qualities are alway always needed in public life the moo who has them Is 1 a lacking thero be can eun new neier rhe rise to greatness 1 I 1 bl ladelphia lodger tf H what constitutes coniti tute the ali bulwark aiji of our liberty and la depend i 5 once enca it Is I 1 abot our frowning battlements our bristling coasts our army and our navy our re relice liace it is in tb lov love of liberty which god ba has planted in n us u our defense Is t in the ilia spirit which liberty as lie the herle heritage of 11 all II men la in all 11 II kanj 1 destroy this hi spirit loj and you he have planted tie t teeda aej of at your own door lincoln lH fc |