. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by Dr. Lambdin. I am not well. Yours truly, Horace Greei< a. K. McClure, 144 So. Sixth St., Philada. Thus ended one of the most useful and one of the sad-dest lives of the last generation. He was of heroic 306 LINCOLN AND MEN OF WAR- TIMES. mould in his matchless battles for the lonely and help-less, and was always invincible in political controversy,because his integrity was ever as conspicuous as his abil-ity; but he was as impatient as
. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by Dr. Lambdin. I am not well. Yours truly, Horace Greei< a. K. McClure, 144 So. Sixth St., Philada. Thus ended one of the most useful and one of the sad-dest lives of the last generation. He was of heroic 306 LINCOLN AND MEN OF WAR- TIMES. mould in his matchless battles for the lonely and help-less, and was always invincible in political controversy,because his integrity was ever as conspicuous as his abil-ity; but he was as impatient as he was philanthropic,and he most longed for what was so pointedly deniedhim—the generous approval of his countrymen. Hewas made heart-sore when he saw the colored voters,whose cause he had championed when no political partyhad the courage to espouse it, almost unitedly oppose hiselection to the Presidency; and finally, smitten in hishome, in his ambition, and in his great newspaper, Hor-ace Greeley, broken in heart and hopelessly clouded inintellect, gave up the battle of life, and slept with hisloved ones who had gone before. ^^T^*^^^:- i^^H m^^^-: vK*. (Photo by Gutekuust, Phila ) JOHN BROWN. AN EPISODE OF JOHN BROWNS RAID. FAR down in the beautiful Cumberland Valley, theold-time heartsome village of Chambersburg wasone of the chief attractions a generation ago. It wasfounded by the sturdy Scotch-Irish pioneers, who carriedtheir severe religion and not less severe detestation ofdespotism with them, and mingled their prayers withtheir warfare against the savage and the soldiers of KingGeorge. The memorable pioneer whose name the villagebears chose a lovely spot as his home and the heritage ofhis children, where the soft murmurs of the cr^stal watersof Falling Spring are lost in the Conococheague, and theunited waters course through the centre of the town ontheir journey to the sea. Here more than a century hadbeen devoted to the genial civilization that made Cham-bersburg f
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