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CA I ):3 t i 1 - ( ir) - skTi A I)) i (t14$ 1 1 ( - aa 5 i q) ) I i ' ' '''' '- ' ' i '''':1: A 1 i :'''''''-'-'-- - '' - - ' ' - - - ''''': - - t ":'''' ' - ' ' ' ' - 1 ' ' - - -4- ' - - ' ' NEVER " : ''' i 1 : i was a 'man more compassiOnate yet none was ever more stern necessity dictated Ultimatums demands threats and cajolery But he could not resista mother's him a :rock of immovability tear the touch of a babys hand That was another presiient in other war years There is more than one point of similarity between the man in the'White House today and the chief executive of this nation in the throes of another war—a war with itself— eighty-twyears ago But the streamlined progress of the twentieth- century has changed many things and the White liouse is not as available to all today as it was from 1860 to 1865 So Abraham Lincoln remains now on the 132nd anniversary of his birth the embodiment of sWeetness and love for his fellowmen Less well known than most of the life facets of the Great Emancipator is the manner in which he exercised the presidential power of pardon for scores if not hundreds of Men sentenced to die for desertion or similar offenses in the Civil War Towards- profiteers spies subversionists and outright criminals he was unflinching But for those whose courage failed he had nothing but pity I a pardon for a strip of a lad who had knows" he one said iin writing cowered and faltered on the battlefield "that I might not have run away myi and the great oblong shells shrieking in self with the minie-balls whistling my ear" So with this thought ever in his mind he stacked all papers concernhe called "leg cases" ing desertion in a special pigeon-hol- e "Why do I call them that? :I leave it to you to decide for yourself: If Almighty iod chances to have given a man a cowardly pair of legs can he really help it if those legs persist in running away with him?" Let us look into some of theiold and yellowed records at this time of remembrance in storm and strife of Lincoln and why-himercy perhaps above all other things made bin) great' The scene is the Lincoln Study in the White House! that historic room v'ith its homely utilitarian furnishings that room which !was open to every caller from supplicant to crackpot from sufferers in the poVerty he knew to well to scheming politicians he so deeply despised that room whose door y closed Before the President stood a little woman whose a nlidshi aIdi ublleiettn of hatte(tyrtet (bkv daughterl roefvetrhseResae:(71 ylehoraMd t uIuncekde m financial from the Pulpit'ito the treasonable task of smuggling ammunition and medicine lie had been convicted and sentenced to be shot and this was the sort of Case iq which Lincoln stiffened his soul to iron and sent away the pity that was 81way4 in his heart :Ile listened to the pleas of intermediaries Then he asked: "What was this Man's name?" Iktrii Bullitt spoke up: "He is my father the Rev! Henry M Luckett" "Ldekett Luckett" Lincoln mused "Didn't he preach in Springfield?" "Yes" the woman said "This is wonderfOl" Lincoln exClaimed as he shot to his feet "I knew him I heard him preach ilie was a tall man Sometimes he Wit mistaken for me "Did you say he Was to be killed? No no there will be no shooting or hangfather is safe There must be ing in this case nest assured my child your I in any such scrape as this" something wrong with him else he wouldn't he "Ifia man had ni:ore than One life" he wrote to a cOmmanding general in relation to another rase "I think a little hanging would not hurt him But you see once a roan is (lead we cannot bring him back" So there was hurnor in this mercy On countlegs Occasions women came to him for permission to passthrough the lines to visit husbands sons or sweei minx theartsi One was a charming southerner an impulsive and who was warned anti pleaded :with by her sponsor not to betray by a single Confederate sympathies during her interword or a flash of her eye i wiith the President She wished to visit her brother a prisoner view ' Mri'Lincoln looked at her in silence Shelwas young lovely dewylipped He almost found difficulty in aSking the routine questions Theta he asked: ' "You are loyall of course?"' She hesitated a second: "Yes I am loyal! Loyal to the core of my heart Loyal to Virginia!" Tho man who Nvas' with her almost sank through the floor She had wrecked her eh4nces Tut the President wrote in silence and handed her a paper: She can be trusted She is entirely honest" "Pass Miss woman a poor woman in clothing that was Then there was a middle-ageoffice with a baby in her arms her tattersj who came into that wide-ope- n husband and his brother had been captured at Gettysburg and taken to Alexandria It was generally believel they were to be shot as spies There seemed to be evidence and military law IS a harsh rule The President listened to the woman's tearful pleas It seemed there was little that could be done Until he lifted the baby from her arms and heard it gurgle "Papa" Ita father must have been gaunt and homely too "'"I'n'ils lady says they were eonscripted into the rebel Army and never were for theirebel cause" tthe letter he then gave her read "This may be true and if it is itrue they shoul& be liberated" Amither time he male an hysterical woman laugh through her tears In a torrent! of tears from joy when he pardoned her husband' she sobbed almost ' ' ' ' ' : ' ' ' " ' ' ' - 7 I i " ' A I - ' 1 '' ' j ' - : 1 ': ' '' -- ' ' ' ': ''' :::- ' ' '': ' ' ' :'-' '"'-''- ' : ' ':::' '''' '"'''4 ": "' ' ' - 4' '' - :' 1 ': ' '' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' :''''''"' ''''' ' : ' : I ' " ' ' '''''"--- ' - ' ' ' ‘ ''- - ‘ l''1:' ":' ':''' - 4 '- sIH::: ' ' ' r I '''''"' ':'-:'::''-- ' ' '' ' ' : 1 - '''' ': 1 - : ' 1 1 I — ' ' — le ' ' " N ' ' ' ' - '''S ' ' 8 :' - ' ' : i ::i ' i I - 1 ' : I i' ' 'I t -- :' '' ' - -4 4 ' ' ' ' t ' ' : '' ' t- ' r ! 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