Show k j 4 Reid's View of Lincoln Abraham Lincoln from his earliest manhood a persistent office seeker and the most ambitious of was one of the startling assertions of American Ambassador Reid in his address to-day at the University of which closed the course on of untaught offspring of the poor whites of Reid went speaking from personal acquaintance and familiarity with the career of the Great not at the outset and never became that favorite type of some a retiring inattentive in general to other interests than those near entirely content with private life till roused by an unexpected call to public The Illinois swamps of those days developed no such Cincinnatus amid their giving his estimate of the man he an instant's hesitation I place him far above any otheron your shining list far above who created an far above saved a fallen or who helped put soul in or the Marquis who transformed some hermit islanders into the present first of of European Further along he is but one key save events to the character of this gifted and ambitious son of the commonest of the common His nature from childhood was one of absolute with himself and with and of an absolute courage that would face the stake if need be for his convictions' of Join to these cardinal traits unconquerable good constant good instinctive sympathy with and understanding of the persuasive skill in awaking and patience in awaiting their perceptions of the and the most utter democracy of feeling and and you have the qualities that brought him to the front in a pioneer |