Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House incidents, war reminiscences, etc. . emancipating the slaves or enslaving free-men. Another reason which once was, but which to the sameextent is now no more, has done much in maintainingour institutions thus far. I mean the powerful influencewhich the interesting scenes of the Revolution had uponthe passions of the people, as distinguished from theirjudgment. But these histories are gone. They can be read nomore forever. They were a fortress of strength. Butwhat the invading foeman co
Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House incidents, war reminiscences, etc. . emancipating the slaves or enslaving free-men. Another reason which once was, but which to the sameextent is now no more, has done much in maintainingour institutions thus far. I mean the powerful influencewhich the interesting scenes of the Revolution had uponthe passions of the people, as distinguished from theirjudgment. But these histories are gone. They can be read nomore forever. They were a fortress of strength. Butwhat the invading foeman could never do, the silent ar-tillery of time has done—the levelling of the walls. Theywere a forest of giant oaks, but the all-resisting hurri-cane swept over them and left only here and there a lonetrunk, despoiled of its verdue, shorn of its foliage, un-shading and unshaded, to murmur in a few more gentlebreezes and to combat with its multiplied limbs a fewmore rude storms, then to sink and be no more. Theywere the pillars of the temple of liberty, and now thatthey have crumbled away, that temple must fall, unless GEORGE WASHINGTON. 299. GEORGE WASHINGTON,First President of the United States. 30O LINCOLN S STORIES AND SPEECHES. we, the descendants, supply the places with pillars hewnfrom the same solid quarry of sober reason. Passion has helped us, but can do so no more. It willin future be our enemy. Reason—cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason —must furnish all the materials for our support and de-fense. Let those materials be molded into general in-telligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverencefor the constitution and the laws; and then our countryshall continue to improve, and our nation, revering hisname, and permitting no hostile foot to pass or desecratehis resting place, shall be that to hear the last trumpthat shall awaken our Washington. Upon these let the proud fabric of freedom rest as therock of its basis, and as truly as has been said of the o
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