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Show A Lincoln Anniversary MONDAY next will be the forty-seventh anniversary anni-versary of Abraham Lincoln's death. His death was the dissolving view of tho mighty tragedy that for four years had held the chief stage of the world, and upon which the absorbed ab-sorbed attention of the whole civilized world had been fixed. For four years the nation had lain under the labor, the anguish and the fear of a second birth and civilization watched, trembling, lest in the stress the great republic should pass from the earth. In those years Abraham Lincoln's place was one of the hardest that man was ever called upon to fill. Few men were ever betore so tv -counted and derided, few ever so abused, not one so misunderstood. mis-understood. But when victory had come; when the dove of peace had left the ark and was even then seeking a spot on which to rest its feet; under the hand of an assassin Abraham Lincoln died, and men for the first time realized how blind they had been, how misinformed they had been; how lofty was tho character, the splendor, of which they had failed to discern. That character has been growing upon them ever since, and words from Lincoln's lips' which were derided when he spoke them are held now as containing the key of what is" needed to perpetuate per-petuate the republic. Wo hope the wranglers who are masquerading masquerad-ing as men inspired by the thoughts and purposes pur-poses of the great man, will stop a moment on Monday and try to measure their own motives by those of the matchless man; that those who are trying to improve upon those who framed our government and upon him who under such stress as never came to man before, found that tho government, when honestly and wisely and bravely administered, was sufficient for every call upon It. And, further, that he who so humbly and resolutely res-olutely followed tho path of sublime duty when so mercilessly assailed and at last just when tno star of hope appeared above the horizon, was so pitilessly slain, triumphed at last and because of his faithfulness to duty, his patience under the fury of assailants, and his all-embracing patriotism patriot-ism oven from death and the grave, arose to immortality. im-mortality. -' |