. Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln . people. The Hol-landers were lovers of liberty;they had passed through acruel and prolonged crisis,and suffered beyond the pow-er of pen to describe, but atlast the power of the despotwas broken, and Holland andthe Dutch people enjoyedfreedom of person and ofreligious belief. The griefof the American people overthe smiting down of thegreat liberator of the nine-teenth century was like thatof the Hollanders, only on
. Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln . people. The Hol-landers were lovers of liberty;they had passed through acruel and prolonged crisis,and suffered beyond the pow-er of pen to describe, but atlast the power of the despotwas broken, and Holland andthe Dutch people enjoyedfreedom of person and ofreligious belief. The griefof the American people overthe smiting down of thegreat liberator of the nine-teenth century was like thatof the Hollanders, only onan immensely larger scale. The feeling of the people of the United States at this time, broken-hearted asthey were at the loss of their president, was, possibly, more intense than thefeelings of the Hollanders. Abraham Lincoln, and the people who so loved him,had not striven and suffered in behalf of their own freedom, but of the freedomof an enslaved and despised race. If ever there was a cause that was approvedin heaven; if ever a cause that received the active interposition of DivineProvidence, it was the cause of national unity and human freedom, which wasnow HOUSE IN WHICH PRESIDENT LINCOLN DIED. 192 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. What pen can paint the portrait of Abraham Lincoln? A great poet said: Some angel guide my pencil while I drawThe picture of a good man. No angel could give us a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. None but a saint inheaven of the highest rank; one who had suffered here on earth in the cause ofhis Master, and had trodden the thorny path and highway of tears, couldappreciate the true character, and the self-sacrificing and exalted career of themartyred president.
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