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N the revolutionary struggle George Washington was raised up to be our great leader in the achievement of national independence; and in the rebellion Abraham Lincoln was placed in the Presidential chair to preserve the Union from dissolution and destruction. Each of these great men seems to have been chosen of God for his special work, and the names of Washington and Lincoln will forever be united in the memory and love of the American people.

Grad Ward Andrews.

MARIETTA COLLEGE, 1880.

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BRAHAM LINCOLN was the man for the times;

and in the great work he accomplished for his country, and in the cause of human rights, he has not been surpassed by any of the greatest and best men of our land.

M. F. BIGNEY.

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N the broadest and best sense of the term, Abraham Lincoln was America's great sibly he builded wiser than he knew, for while

"He carved his name on time as on a rock,
And stood thereon as on a monument,"

he was apparently unconscious as an infant-giant of his own high possibilities. A patriot without pretense, and a statesman by intuition, he could still descend to the level of the humblest, ever ready with a jest to point a moral, and with a story to confound a sophist.

At the time when bloody treason flourished and he fell, the Southern people, unjustly accused of sympathy with his assassin, were just beginning to appreciate his sterling qualities and the wisdom of his acts. His death was to the North a bereavement and a grief; to the South it was a dire calamity which hindered the consummation of that "more perfect union" for which all good people prayed; and to-day the men and women of the South, without distinction of race or color, cherish the memory of the Martyr-President as that of a Deliverer.

He, whom the people honored; he, the wise,
Who fought for honor's prize;

He, whom the armies reverenced-the good,
Who every lure withstood;

He, whom the ransomed worshiped; HE, the blest,
Has gone to his great rest!

When through war's storm-cloud the fair silver light
Of peace appeared most bright,
Red-handed murder raised against his life

The pistol and the knife,

And HE, the great, the good, the nation's Chief
Fell, leaving all in grief.

NEW ORLEANS, 1881.

M. J. Digney

JAMES MARVIN-C. M. MEAD.

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BRAHAM LINCOLN. AN AMERICAN, I find all the characteristics of the ideal American embodied in this great, good MAN. Coming ages alone can properly estimate the value of his services to this country and to human freedom in all lands.

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O other statesman in the world's history has ever won from so many men their personal affection, thorough confidence and enthusiastic admiration, as Abraham Lincoln.

C. M. Mead.

ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, ISSO.

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MET Mr. Lincoln several times during the war, and always entertained for him feelings of confidence and esteem, and finally of great personal affection. The last time I saw him was in the fall after Gettysburg, at the White House. It was just prior to my leaving the Army of the Potomac for the West with a part of the 11th Corps. He gave me his map, which, being "mounted," was in his judgment better than mine for field service. This was after we had conversed for some time upon the military situation in the vicinity of Knoxville and of Chattanooga, and just as I was about leaving his room. I used the map thereafter, and have it still.

WEST POINT, 1882.

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