. Washington and Lincoln : Colorado anniversary number. ere have conse-crated it far above our power to add to or to world will very little note nor long remember whatwe say here; but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated hereto the unfinished work that they have thus far so noblycarried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to thegreat task remaining before us; that from those honoreddead we take increased devotion to that cause for whichthey here gave the last full measure of devotion; thatwe here highly resolve that thes
. Washington and Lincoln : Colorado anniversary number. ere have conse-crated it far above our power to add to or to world will very little note nor long remember whatwe say here; but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated hereto the unfinished work that they have thus far so noblycarried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to thegreat task remaining before us; that from those honoreddead we take increased devotion to that cause for whichthey here gave the last full measure of devotion; thatwe here highly resolve that these dead shall not have diedin vain; that the nation shall, under God, have a newbirth of freedom, and that government of the people, bythe people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. THE GREAT AMERICAN COMMONER—LINCOLN. That Lincoln was a self-made man we have alwaysaccepted with keen pleasure, for we like to think that thisgreat American, unschooled and unpretentious, rose fromobscurity to the highest position in our gift. Unschooled 24. PRESIDENT LINCOLN IN he was, but not uneducated. Unpretentious as he wasand bred to hardship as were his father and mother, wemay say of him that he became the leader of the peoplethrough the supreme power of his personality. In studying the history of Lincoln, we find that hisancestry can be traced back through eleven generations,but whether the Lincolns were of Norman or Saxon bloodis unknown. One of the earliest of the family bore theSaxon name of Alfred, but it is certain that there wasNorman blood by intermarriage, and as this same Alfredwas a large landowner, which was not usual with Saxonsin the early years after the conquest of England, it is notunlikely that he was of the conquerors. From the day of Alfred de Lincoln, who lived in 1086,the Lincolns are easily traced, Hingham, Swanton, Mor-ley, Carbrooke and Norwich being the homes of the an-cestors of Abraham Lincoln. Samuel Lincoln, the immigrant son of EdwardLincoln, c
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