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Show Lincoln was the most American ot Americans, it cannot truly be said that Lincoln was not a type.. God help us if Ltncom be not a. type, if it be true .hat i he stands alone without lellows, with- i out ancestors and without successors. : His ancestors v.ere Cromwell and HampJon, Haiicoei: and Adams, Washington Wash-ington and Erankiin. His ancestry was . tne Magna Charca and tno LcUi aliou of Independence. His I or., runners were ; Garrison, John brown, Tit u.re Parker. ! Lincoln himself was just and generous enough to say ol his forerunners, the intrepid abolitionists, that their moral power had enabled him to do ail. It is not the very Pal.i.hum of our liberty lib-erty thac the commoner, the ho.nespu.i man, may rise to the hignest station in the land? Is it not the inspiration of our youth and the pride of our manhood that tne commoner, speaking for his kind, voiced the abuling trutn: Government Govern-ment of the people by the people and for the people snail not perish from the earth'.' Stephen S. Wise, in Pacific Monthly. |