Colorado Memorial Day annual, 1909 : Lincoln Centennial number . od-led and sustained we must ever believehim.—Wendell Phillips. He was warm-hearted; he was generous; he wasmagnanimous; he was most truly, as he afterward saidon a memorable occasion, With malice toward none, withcharity for all.—Alexander H. Stephens. Mr. Lincoln was not what you would call an educatedman. The college that he had attended was that which aman attends who gets up at daylight to hoe the corn, andsits up at night to read the best book he can find, by theside of a burning pine knot. What education he had, hepicked u
Colorado Memorial Day annual, 1909 : Lincoln Centennial number . od-led and sustained we must ever believehim.—Wendell Phillips. He was warm-hearted; he was generous; he wasmagnanimous; he was most truly, as he afterward saidon a memorable occasion, With malice toward none, withcharity for all.—Alexander H. Stephens. Mr. Lincoln was not what you would call an educatedman. The college that he had attended was that which aman attends who gets up at daylight to hoe the corn, andsits up at night to read the best book he can find, by theside of a burning pine knot. What education he had, hepicked up in that way. He had read a great many books;and all the books that he had read, he knew. He had atenacious memory, just as he had the ability to see theessential thing. A man of great ability, pure patriotism, unselfishnature, full of forgiveness to his enemies, bearing malicetoward none, he proved to be the man above all othersfor the struggle through which the nation had to pass toplace itself among the greatest in the family of nations.—U. 8. • * * * * * • *
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