. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by Dr. Lambdin. counsels from some prominent men of the landwhose judgment was entitled to respect; but GovernorWise, always a lover of the theatrical, made a dress-parade burlesque of justice, and on the i6th day of De-cember, 1859, amidst the pomp and show of the concen-trated power of the Mother of Presidents, John E. Cookpaid the penalty of his crime on the gallows. No demandwas ever made for the rendition of Cooks companionswho had escaped fro
. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by Dr. Lambdin. counsels from some prominent men of the landwhose judgment was entitled to respect; but GovernorWise, always a lover of the theatrical, made a dress-parade burlesque of justice, and on the i6th day of De-cember, 1859, amidst the pomp and show of the concen-trated power of the Mother of Presidents, John E. Cookpaid the penalty of his crime on the gallows. No demandwas ever made for the rendition of Cooks companionswho had escaped from Harpers Ferry into the SouthMountain with him. Some of them lived in Northern 326 LINCOLN AND MEN OF WAR-TIMES. Pennsylvania without concealment, but no one thoughtof arresting them. A few months thereafter the long-threatening clouds of fraternal war broke in fury uponthe country; the song of John Brown inspired greatarmies as they swept through the terrible flame of battlefrom the Father of Waters to the Southern Sea, and theinspiration that made lawless madmen of Brown andCook at Harpers Ferry crowned the Republic with uni-versal freedom at OUR UNREWARDED HEROES. OUR UNREWARDED HEROES. ALL great wars produce great victors, and they are/~^ crowned with the greenest laurels of the people forwhose cause they have achieved success. These chief-tains live in histor}^ and their memor\ is gratefully cher-ished long after they have passed away ; but every greatwar has also its unrewarded heroes, whose merits areoften equal to, sometimes even greater than, those whoattained the highest measure of distinction. In warand politics nothing is successful but success, and theunsuccessful military commander and the unsuccessfulpolitician are forgotten, whatever may be their personalmerits, while those who win victories win the applauseof the world. Accident, fortuitous circumstance, andpersonal or political influence aid largely in winningpromotion in both peace and war, and
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