Show KNOW YOUR COUNTRY when addressing the senate ot of tha state ot of new jersey in 1861 lincoln said may blay I 1 be pardoned if on this occasion I 1 mention that away awa back in my childhood I 1 got hold of a small book weems lite life ot 0 washington I 1 remember all the accounts there given of 0 the battle fields and struggles tor for the liberties ot of the country and none fixed themselves upon my imagination so deeply as the struggle here at trenton new jersey the crossing of 0 the rive the contests with the hessians the great hardships endured at the time all fixed themselves in my mind more than any single revolutionary event I 1 recollect thinking then boy even though I 1 was that there must have bane been something more than common that these men struggled for I 1 am exceedingly anxious that that thing shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for or which that thai struggle was made freedom in life liberty and pursuit ot of happiness was the something which lincoln referred to lu in these lines what do the political parties and advocates ot of government ownership and increased regulation ot of private and industrial activity promise the people that would equal or in any way compare with the ideals which washington and lincoln struggled to maintain think it over |