| Show DIFFERENT IN temperament the happy sunshiny lia colilla coans apprehension athas it has been good fortune in along a long unbroken fifoot work to be thrown much in contact with men ot of affairs every presidential candidate from tho the timo time of buchanan ian and F remont fremont through the stormy periods of our nations struggle and in the happier days when contests were ended I 1 have seen I 1 have known political leaders of the groat great part parties e 8 1 I have met and talked with tho the leading divines tile chief orators our best lawyers and men who grace and others who disgrace tho the bench I 1 h have ire seen and met in close communion and my sober jud judgment is that not ten tea per cent of them were graced with this happy sunshiny disposition which goes so sd far toward mak making in their own lives sweet while radiating comfort happiness and good cheer in the circles ot of which they are arc so often the center ono of the greatest sufferers in that way was abraham lincoln tolle to be sureh sure bo ohad had upon himself from 1800 1860 until the day of hi bis death responsibilities bili ties anxieties enough to break down any M man an this side of a hero but imal imagine one tor for a 1 moment abraham lincoln with all his grand 0 qualities u 1 atles permeated permeate cl by a vein of sunshine 1 men will tell you that lie he aas n as a great storyteller story teller Soli so ho ewas was lie he told stories for the purpose of illustration not for the alio sake of amusement not to ell cn ter bertain tain not to la raise a laugh lie ile was vas solemn grave weighted always with a brooding apprehension long before he was president of the united states alter after he became the head of the nation and when civil war plunged the country into what many feared was a bottomless abyss ho 0 beame more gloomy not bal 1 ni apprehensive and matters vast and tremendous in proportion assumed proportions vaster taster and m V tremendous is as hour after hour lie le paced in sleepless night hig ii chamber of horrors grant had bad I 1 think the self selfish lEll the indifferent nt dif different quality of good nature he was good tia natured tureLl it lie he wa n let alone no ko man with i 1 well tpring of kindly feeling could go through thron sli what grant was forced to endure ten thousand killed twenty thousand I 1 killed fifty thousand killed in ill the wilderness it makes no difference the end wis to lv li gained and to his everlasting glory it will be sald said it was gained but put lincoln in that place put lincoln with his intense sympathy P put nt lincoln there with his desire to save everybody even to the extent of taking it upon his own bent shoulders ile he could nt have lasted in the wilderness au an hour joe howards letter |
