Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-12-16 | Page 4 | Reid's Estimate of Lincoln

REID'S REIDS ESTIMATE OF LIN LINCOLN COLN A A 1 series of have haY been i made ade at the University of Birmingham Eng on Makers of History Whitelaw Reid our to to Great Britain j concluded ed edthe the course a week ago By th tn- tn was Abraham Abiah iah f Lincoln jn SO Some e of f his ij points w as follows ol o s. s l I 4 place I-place him far ar above any ny other of J your our shilling shil shill ing list lt of the thc makers of hi history tory in inthe the nineteenth f t. t yf far above e Bismarck far above G or or or Prince lj to r v ri 1 pi v f p personally l I l an conservative frs l v Vh i e he- he iya from hrs his hi earl earlif sf a p l r and the most ambitious us of f nien lIe He 1 e was an ardent partisan al and and the most skill skill- of of- of of men and of all al the thc intricacies S P in the g game game of t pi f i politic tiG PP in il S uS is' is S st state te f was as S not perpetually p p telling humorous and ands s stories in the whit white white house honse For one one one-he he h did tell tell a hundred and every one tela a- a poorer coarser on ones ones s have been fathered oa on on h him n. n At t th the most crit critical cal period feriod of his life he was tl the tl c vi victim i t tim n of such sch In melancholia l that his friends rends I c t iii vs ic fo ft his t l reason iason L. eason i fc Always when not in anit ani- ani TO icci n iS t l her he was Avas tHe niost loat melancholy s l n gf t n. n s N rd this thiB highest and saddest statesman of oI the century as a mere professional professional wearer of cap and s the the thelast last ind indignity g u his earn earned 1 d laur laurels ls T O f H He knew kner his Bible better than any oth other other- r. r boo boo- 1 He was never a member of an any r- r J