Identifier: lincolncentenni00newy (find matches)
Title: Lincoln centennial number
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896 Presidents
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ind, but a leadership that changes theminds of others. He kept near thepeople, — he kept his ear to the ground,—through his sympathy with human be-ings and his interest in them, in order tolearn the moods of many minds, and grad-ually to lead thought and action in the lineof his own profound convictions. Lincolnrespected public opinion, — he declaredthat public opinion in this country iseverything,1 — but he was not opinionstrembling slave. He understood humanprejudices, limitations, the effects ofheredity and environment; but he neverconsidered a wrong public opinion final.Not unknown to mankind is the states-manship that resists public opinion whenit disapproves of it — resists till the wavesbeat threateningly, and then turns withthe tide. This is the statesmanship ofPontius Pilate—that hesitant and tragicfigure who stands before the eyes of allmankind washing ineffectually his guiltyhands, while he releases Barabbas andsends the Christ to Calvary. h, September 16, 1859.
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SAINT-GAUDENSS STATUE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, IN LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO LINCOLN THE LEADER 505 DON T SPARE ME No book praising Lincoln has lately beenissued which has brought to me a cleareridea of his method with public opin-ion, as well as his wisdom and his self-sacrificing devotion, than one by a manwhose life was a romance of devotionto ideals,—a Southern-born abolitionist,—who did not hesitate to dispraise thePresident. He was opposed to war, andheld that no drop of blood would havebeen shed if the President, at the begin-ning, had proclaimed freedom for everyslave. Yet even he would have protectedthe centers to which the slaves would flee,as if that itself would not have been anopen invitation to war! In 1862, he, theRev. Moncure D. Conway, went to theWhite House with the Rev. W. H.Channing to urge personally upon thePresident the emancipation of the slaves.Pathetic was the sweet reasonableness ofthe President in explaining to these goodand insistent men, as he had so often done

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