Show ON LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY BI RTH DAY This Is the birthday of oC o that great AmerIcan Abraham Lincoln 1 No character In all history has a appeal to 1 the plain people than that of Lincoln Born In pO erty deprived of oC o his mother at 10 denied the opportunity of oC schooling forced to struggle agaInst adversity disappointed In Inlove Inlove love dove In business In politics pO home home- homely home 1 I ly in In features long lone and lank lanky Lie Lin Lincoln coln coln oln rose to the highest honors within the gilt gift of ot man Beginning lire life with every con con- conceivable Solvable con handicap except ph physical unfitness Lincoln surmounted dif difficulties and became recognized liS as asa asa I Ia a master mind a II leader ot of men au an orator a II 10 writer riter a philosopher A number ot of his utterances are reo re- regarded re regarded as among mong the most beautt ul gems of thought and expression In the English language L 1 Then to add to the heroic In his story hish ii tory his life ends In the terrible tragedy enacted at Fords Ford's theatre In Washington near the close o ot of e the Civil war No boy can read the story of oC Abraham Lincoln without havIng his moral fiber strengthened his soul exalted and his heart soft soft- softened softened ened An unpublished speech made by Lincoln has been brought bt to light Shortly light after the debates between Lincoln and Douglas Lincoln reviewing re- re re reviewing viewing the tile campaign said In resisting the spread of oC o slav slavery ery cry to ne new territory and with that 10 what hat appears to 10 me to be a ten ten ten-gency gency ency to subs subvert ert the first principle free god gov eminent Itself my whole effort has consisted To the Iho best of my m judgment I have have labored for anti nd not against the union As 1 not felt fet so I hale hae not ex- ex expressed ex expressed pressed pressed any harsh sentiment to hard w ard our southern brethren I have constantly declared as I 1 really be- be be the only difference bet between een hem and us is le the difference of oC I 1 hate bale meant to assail the too mo tires ot or no party or Individual and j if I hate haie in any instance of which I 1 am not conscious departed from Crom my purpose I regret ItI itI it itI I hate hae ha e said eald that in some respects re- re reSpects re the contest has been pain painful rul lul to me nie Myself and those eith Ith whom I act have been constantly a purpose to destro destroy the union and bespattered with withe cr eter e Imaginable odious epithet and some soma who ho were ere friends as It ere but hase hae ha e made mot most mo t I In this I save fave cultivated patience and madeno mado made no no attempt at retort Am Ambition bill on has been ascribed to tome tome tome me God knows how sincerely I prayed from the first that thIs fIeld or of o ambition might not be opened I claim no Insensibility to political honors but today could the Missouri restriction be restored and the whole slavery question be bert rt placed on the old ground of oC tol by where it exists with th un unyielding to tolbo Ih spread of oC It on principle I could In to consideration gladly that Judge Douglas should never be out and I never be in an office so go long as we e both or either lire I There Is fe in this speech as In Inmany inmany Inmany many of oC o Lincoln's public addresses w Q note of humility coupled with fth an unselfish desire to serve In the anI I right without malice or Intolerance The speech discloses the tho soul ot of the the man which was as big enough to toI otI I sUbmerge self and treat his political toI I cal foes with generosity |