Show true T yue type of rugged men of Yron frontier tier lincoln was a patriot given the hie country by tile frontier americans of to daiy diy liv might have trouble in understanding how and from froia eliat hands or conditions the f frontier antler nt ler f families received tle tie torch of patriotism which they passed on burning from carrier to earlier from genei atlon to generation vere uns aas something comet icing finer than no bb lilis e oblige fine as that Is these wv ere nut not responding to ti tle tie e aristocrats pr principle that lie he who lias has tile llie must fruin front the land shall return to it tile greatest service that lip li dball lie he the fl first into the breach reach li the hie last to leave a held field and the first to attempt its recovery reco ery iery that eliat nobility is one of compensations co ia of rewards and merits of privilege honorably lionor ably paid for the great an pioneer families ad dd not have the best of it much of the tinie time they had the llie worst of it IL they seemed w to get little from their country it could hine have been to thera as much of an abstraction as it was a reality it frequently was indifferent to them and lust just as 18 often it won was obi rut the and hostile sometimes it failed to protect thern them anti anil it restrained them from defending themselves llila elvos at times the frontier was rest restless leis anti anil eien rebellious rebellions when government seemed hostile or cureless but it gave tile country jackson a great unionist and alln oln a greater americans in faired circumstances now and earlier have been found pallid in their allegiance to the country gave them opportunity but tit at need tile the frontier lias has been manch devotion to his country Is heightened by the fact that tile ills roa natural tural inclination toward established order and the allegiance inherent jn ilia aristocratic position tiou could very veil ell have attached ached total him to the hoine goern government ment lie he gave his complete loyalty to a new concept called tile his country putting at hazard till all the advantages a ligh place in life COD contained WIned fur for him lincoln in his youth represented the frontier hopelessness of a family chidi had receded generation by generation from competence to what hat may be regarded as incompetence from opportunity to the lack of it from good land te tc door various genera lions of the family had bad found themselves progressively less capable of getting much from the country and found it offering less and less legs to them then than from tile retrogressing retrogress ing stock the great unionist came when he ws was most needed ue tie was a humanitarian ile he hated slavery lavery i ile he wanted to improve the common lot but its ills inspiration was nut not found in any of these qualities or to in like emotions and sentiments they were till all subordinated to its ills devotion to the country ile he never considered satisfying his altruistic desires at the expense of the nation there mere many americans mho would have done so he had much trouble m nith ith them lincoln accepted war not to free the slaves hut but to save the nation lie he freed the slaves by the emancipation proclamation not to abolish slavery but to preserve the union ile he answered the hostile aristocracy of great britain toy ly his at appeal peat to the british commoner it was the strategy of the states statesman and not tile the declaration of the humanitarian the south had misunderstood him thinking that lie ile would mould nullify the constitution and destroy the lie nation to attack slavery abolitionists in it the north tried to force him to extreme measures pa tried to make him compromise traitors tried to destroy confidence in him hill and to persuade the people of the hopelessness of his purpose defeatists who were mere timid but not disloyal urged the abandonment of the costly effort to preserve the union tle choie was mas only one consideration which milich prevailed in Lincol ns intention and that was mas the inviolability of his country it was as impregnable and could old not be mod modified fied by pressure at home or from abroad it was proof against foreign dissension and disloyalty at home it resisted altruists weaklings wea klings and traitors lincoln was a nationalist his ho hn was subordinated to his count rys good chicago tribune |