Tributes to Abraham Lincoln . ear-old boy, running a flat boat carry-ing passengers from the Indiana shore jof the Ohio river out to steamboats in !the middle of the river. The two Ken- jtucky men who arrested him claimed he :was operating a ferry >and carrying pas- sengers across the river without a li-cense from the state of Kentucky. Heproved he was not guilty and was letloose. *** Sometimes I think the big deep rea-son why the memory of Lincoln Is keptand cherished Is not so much becauseof what he did in Washington as astatesman and a man who raised uparmy after army and sent It Into th
Tributes to Abraham Lincoln . ear-old boy, running a flat boat carry-ing passengers from the Indiana shore jof the Ohio river out to steamboats in !the middle of the river. The two Ken- jtucky men who arrested him claimed he :was operating a ferry >and carrying pas- sengers across the river without a li-cense from the state of Kentucky. Heproved he was not guilty and was letloose. *** Sometimes I think the big deep rea-son why the memory of Lincoln Is keptand cherished Is not so much becauseof what he did in Washington as astatesman and a man who raised uparmy after army and sent It Into thefurnace of war. His record there Is astrange and a marvelous one. But thebig deep reason why he keeps his holdon the masses of the people Is becauseof what he was as a man, because ofthe personality he had. There Is a cer-tain sense in which the memory of Lin-coln is cherished here In the middlewest just as the people of Scotlandhold their remembrance of BobbyBurns. Kessingers Mid-West Review Feb. 1928 . Carl Sandburg Says M. LINCOLN symbolized America.„The embryo of modern industrialsociety took shape. The history oftransportation,of world col-onization andworld marketsbased on pow-er-driven m a -chinery of in-t e r n a t i onaltrade, finance,and standard-ization, weavethrough thedestiny of Lin-coln. He worehome -made moccasins as a carl sandburgboy, rawhide boots from a factory asa young man, and dressed calfskinshoes in still later years. A vast playof economic action, in whatever im-pressionistic manner, must move inthe record of Lincoln. And then Lincoln from a child onwas intensely companionable, keenlysensitive to the words and ways ofpeople around him. Therefore thosepeople, their homes, occupations,songs, proverbs, schools, churches,politics, should be set forth with theincessant suggestion of change thatwent always with western pioneerlife. They are the backgrounds onwhich the Lincoln life moved, hadits rise and flow, and was moulderand moulded. ( ( I Hogg, I. Egen
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