his bright earnest eyes upon the uplifted faces of the crowd. 'My friends,' he said, in a clear, full voice, 'it is an easy thing for me to run this flag up to the top of the staff, but it will take the whole nation to keep it there.' "A shout rung out from the multitude, one of those wild impulsive echoes of a thousand hearts, which bespeak the enthusiasm of untried strength. It seemed an easy thing to the people, with the tramp of those thirty thousand new troops in their ears, to keep thousands of star-spangled banners skyward; but before many days had passed, the rush of fugitive feet, as they fled along those very pavements, proved how prophetia was that simple speech of President Lincoln." CLOSING CHAPTER. ESTIMATE OF MR. LINCOLN'S LIFE, CHARACTER AND WORK. WE can, in conclusion, offer our readers no clearer analysis, and no more appreciative resume of the character of our distinguished subject, whose career we have thus traced from his humble cradle to his thrice-honored grave, than is contained in the sermon preached on Sabbath, April 30th, 1865, by the Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D. D., Pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church, of New York city, on ABRAHAM LINCOLN, HIS LIFE AND ITS LESSONS. *** "An analysis of the mental and moral traits of Mr. Lincoln, will show us how complete was his adaptation for that very period of our national history which he was called to fill, and which he has made so peculiarly his own. His mental processes were characterized by originality, clearness, comprehensiveness, sagacity, logical fitness, acumen, and strength. He was an original thinker; not in the sense of always having new and striking ideas, for such originality may be as daring and dangerous as it is peculiar and rare; but he was original in that his ideas were in some characteristic way his own. However common to other minds, however simple and axiomatic when stated, they bore the stamp of individuality. Not a message or proclamation did he write, not a letter did he pen, which did not carry on the face of it 'Abraham Lincoln, his mark.' He thought out every subject for himself; and he did not commit himself in public upon any subject which he had not made his own by reflection. Hence even familiar thoughts coming before us in the simple rustic his bright earnest eyes upon the uplifted faces of the crowd. 'My friends,' he said, in a clear, full voice, 'it is an easy thing for me to run this flag up to the top of the staff, but it will take the whole nation to keep it there.' "A shout rung out from the multitude, one of those wild impulsive echoes of a thousand hearts, which bespeak the enthusiasm of untried strength. It seemed an easy thing to the people, with the tramp of those thirty thousand new troops in their ears, to keep thousands of star-spangled banners skyward; but before many days had passed, the rush of fugitive feet, as they fled along those very pavements, proved how prophetis was that simple speech of President Lincoln." CLOSING CHAPTER. ESTIMATE OF MR. LINCOLN'S LIFE, CHARACTER AND WORK. WE can, in conclusion, offer our readers no clearer analysis, and no more appreciative resume of the character of our distinguished subject, whose career we have thus traced from his humble cradle to his thrice-honored grave, than is contained in the sermon preached on Sabbath, April 30th, 1865, by the Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D. D., Pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church, of New York city, on ABRAHAM LINCOLN, HIS LIFE AND ITS LESSONS. * "An analysis of the mental and moral traits of Mr. Lincoln, will show us how complete was his adaptation for that very period of our national history which he was called to fill, and which he has made so peculiarly his own. His mental processes were characterized by originality, clearness, comprehensiveness, sagacity, logical fitness, acumen, and strength. He was an original thinker; not in the sense of always having new and striking ideas, for such originality may be as daring and dangerous as it is peculiar and rare; but he was original in that his ideas were in some characteristic way his own. However common to other minds, however simple and axiomatic when stated, they bore the stamp of individuality. Not a message or proclamation did he write, not a letter did he pen, which did not carry on the face of it 'Abraham Lincoln, his mark.' He thought out every subject for himself; and he did not commit himself in public upon any subject which he had not made his own by reflection. Hence even familiar thoughts coming before us in the simple rustic garb of his homely speech, seemed fresh and new. He took from the mint of political science the bullion which philosophers had there deposited, and coined it into proverbs for the people. Or, in the great placer of political speculations, he sometimes struck a lode of genuine metal, and wrought it with his own hands. The Union is older than the Constitution;' 'The Union made the Constitution, and not the Constitution the Union.' "Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws?' 666 'Capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.' "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free!' "Often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb.' "What volumes of philosophy, of history, of political economy, of legal and ethical science, are condensed into these pithy sentences, each bearing the mark of Mr. Lincoln's individuality. Much of this individuality of thought was due to the seclusion of his early life from books and schools, and to the meditative habit induced by the solitude of the forest. "The simplifying of thought was a passion with him; and in his own pithy words, 'I was never easy until I had a thought bounded on the north, and bounded on the south, and bounded on the east, and bounded on the west.' "How much the American people will hereafter owe to him for having staked out the boundaries of political ideas hitherto but vaguely comprehended. How conclusive against the right of secession is this clearly-bounded statement of the first inaugural : "I hold that in the contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of |