Show A New Consecration I Lincoln has been truly called a man for the ages ages He lived and arid spoke for the present and for the future of American life as well as for his own day There is a quality enduring and timeless about his utterances One as vividly pertinent as though uttered in this hour might well calL for a new consecration of purpose sorely needed in America today It is Let every American every lover of liberty every well- well wisher visher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country and never to tolerate their violation by others As the patriots of 76 did to the support of the Declaration so to th the support of the Constitution and laws let every American Pledge his life his property and his sacred honor Let every man remember that to violate the law v is is to trample on the blood of his father and to tear the charter of his own and his childrens children's liberty Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap let it be written in primers spelling books and almanacs let it be preached from the pulpit proclaimed from legislative halls and enforced hi in in courts of ju justice tice In short let it become the political religion of the nation Exchange t |