LAWRENCE BARRETT-NEAL DOW. 373 "B ESIDES . . . . he hath borne his faculties so meek, Hath been so clean in his great office That his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, And Pity, like a naked, new-born babe, striding the blast, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind." Lawsmed Marit Lawrence COHASSET, 1880. I BELIEVE in Divine inspiration for good, and that God sometimes intervenes in the affairs of man. Abraham Lincoln, in my view, was charged with a Divine mission, which he executed wisely and well, and is justly entitled to the reverence, gratitude and love of all loyal citizens of our great republic. Neae Dom PORTLAND, 1882. A VERBAL MESSAGE GIVEN BY MR. LINCOLN TO HON. SCHUYLER COLFAX, FOR THE MINERS OF THE FAR WEST, APRIL 14, 1865. MR. COLFAX:-I want you to take a message from me to the miners whom you visit. I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible. It abounds all over the western country, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, and its development has scarcely commenced. During the war, when we were adding a couple of millions of dollars every day to our national debt, I did not care about encouraging the increase in the volume of our precious metals. We had the country to save first. But, now that the rebellion is overthrown, and we know pretty nearly the amount of our national debt, the more gold and silver we mine makes the payment of that debt so much the easier. Now, I am going to encourage that in every possible way. We shall have hundreds of thousands of disbanded soldiers, and many have feared that their return home in such great numbers might paralyze industry by furnishing suddenly a greater supply of labor than there will be a demand for. I am going to try and attract them to the hidden wealth of our mountain. ranges, where there is room enough for all. Immigration, which even the war has not stopped, will land upon our A VERBAL MESSAGE. 375 shores hundreds of thousands more per year from overcrowded Europe. I intend to point them to the gold and silver that waits for them in the West. Tell the miners from me that I shall promote their interests to the utmost of my ability, because their prosperity is the prosperity of the nation; and we shall prove, in a very few years, that we are, indeed, the treasury of the world. Mr. Lincoln went to the opera, saying:-" People may think strange of it, but I must have some relief from this terrible anxiety, or it will kill me." APRIL 14TH, 1865. [Fac-simile of Theatrical Programme of the night of President Lincoln's Assassination.] FORD'S THEATRE, TENTH STREET, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 14th, 1865. THIS EVENING the performance will be honored by the presence of Benefit and last night of MISS LAURA KEENE, The distinguished Manageress, Authoress and Actress, supported by Tom Taylor's celebrated Eccentric Comedy as originally produced in MARTIN L. D'OOGE-CHARLES A. DANA 377 ABR BRAHAM LINCOLN is the purest man of the people known to history. In his public career he was as incorruptible as Aristides the Just, as sagacious as William the Silent, as brave as Cromwell, and as unselfish as Codrus the Athenian, who fell in the forefront of the battle, that by the sacrifice of his life he might be the preserver of his country. Martin L. D'Ange UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, 1880. E was a patriot and a wise man. HE The fundamental ideas of the American republican system controlled his mind and dictated his action. His wisdom carried the United States safely through the war of His death was a secession and abolished slavery. calamity for the country, but it left his fame without a fault or criticism. NEW YORK, 1881. Charlu A. dana. |