Show THE MEN TO PROMOTE Away back on April 19 3SC5 the great Emerson made an address on Lincoln He had Just been assassinated assassi-nated and the country was stirred as it never was stirred before A paragraph para-graph from that address reads as follows fol-lows Tho President stood before us as a man of the people Ho was thoroughly American Ameri-can had never crossed the nea had never been spoiled by English Insularity or InBunrt French dissipation a qulot native aborig inal man as an acorn from the oak no aping of foreigners no frivolous of forlSerl accomplishments accom-plishments Kentuckian born working on a farm u llatboatnmn a Captain in the Black Hawk war a country lawyer a Representative In tho rural Legislature of Illinois on such modest foundations tho broad structure of his fume WIM tons laid How slowly and yet by happily prepared steps ho came to hla place 13el A plain man of the people an extraordinary extraor-dinary fortunu attended him Ho offered no shining qualities at the first encounter ho didnot offend by superiority Ha had u mac and manner which disarmed suspicion sus-picion which Inspired confidence vli kIt confirmed good will He was n mon without with-out vices He had a strong 1 sense of duty which It was very easy for him to obey We publish the above to call attention atten-tion to the fact that It seems to us had Ad infra I Sampson read that he never would have written that letter expressing the belief that warrant sailors should never be given commissions commis-sions In the navy because under that rule President Lincoln would never have been given the commission of Chief Magistrate of the United State land l-and tlijs world would have lost one oCt I oC-t UH strongest men That is he would I have gone down to death unknown j i I Another passage in the same address It would be good for Admiral Sampson to read for I Is couched In terms I I I which he will understand I Is as I follows i I Them what an occasion wus the whirlwind whirl-wind of wall Hero was ulucc for no lieu day magistrate no fairweather sailor I the new pilot was hurried to the helm In a tornado In four years four years of I battle dava hl endurance his fertility i of resources hlB magnanimity wore sore ly I tried and never found n Tlmre wanting by his courage his countiol his humanity ho stood a heroic figure In the center of a 1 heroic epoch Ho IB Iho true history of the Amejlban people In his time Step byi I st < plo walked before them slon with j their slowness quickening his march by I theirs the truo representative of this continent con-tinent an entirely nubile man father of 1 his country the pulse of twenty millions I thrcbblnp In his heart the thoughtof I their minds articulated by lila tongue |