Show S j 1 ABRAHAM BRA AM LINCOLN J S NL YEARS ago go yes yesterday es esi i d l I manchild his a opened eyes eJes S on fl t the a afew f aw mUse mUes from the little J 5 city Of oC Hodgenville Hod In Kentucky Kentuck Over OverS S half bait a century later tates that Nt t child gronn grown to mans estate tate and under responsibilities r I Ules such uch as jo io G max mat in this Union 4 5 had ever ver before beCore borne bome gave freedom free om to of slaves That was ws the he crown cr wn J j In lug achievement in the President I Abraham Lincoln oln although the bullet of John tOoth Sooth dla emt f t still till his hisS great areat heart until more nore years ears S had elapsed ter terI I 4 The stroke of the pen n bv b which Lin Lincoln J coin coln gave the fhe negro citizenship in h fi the republic to which he had J een unwillingly brought marked an epoch In the I history of this land which will be re red when hen moat most of ot the othero othor o L I epochs have been i A A 4 Arl rl lu had arisen a crisis which i must u f be bravely brave and fully met or or r the re rc republic reS S public was 88 doomed doome This homely homel coun lawyer ros rose j grandly to it as asH i H over Iver man rose ro to an emergency It If was wasS I S e to strike s a blow at tho the south S from which it coui coul l not recover and that blow bo was struck when the emancipation emancipation eman S proclamation was w s signed It broke the backbone of th the rebellion beman 1 and saved the Union it set get a standard StandardS S of humanity of fairness of justice of 01 equality before the law Jaw that must ever be on of the brightest b pictures which S of future ages will wll paint of r century events So much I has 1188 been written of ot Lincoln by his many eminent biographers that a 5 sketch of his Ls life Ufe or a 8 resume of his hisS S worth is not necessary at this time It U Is enough to say any sa that he le e was one oneS S of the very few American citizens whose whOle whole life would make fit read readIng lag Ing for the youth of any generation generationS S Search as they would hit his detractors could never find Hn a single Jarring note no noteS c cIn S in the ss of rf his disposition a aspot aS S j S spot on his honor or ra r a blemish oh oil oh his I character Born Bunt amid the humblest of I surroundings be he earv ar d his own way wai I through life Ufe and lind went jut ut of ot it amid the bitter mourning of ot a nation |