The Cleo Chieftain. (Cleo, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, April 25, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
BY CHARLES 8 ZANE
‘ Note— Pullirijr the ho ou of the
mire onto dry irroupd raa only oue of
iDBpnerable faaUpcee in life of
! Abraham Lincoln Where be performed
Mine act of humanity to “regain" bis
‘peace of mind" as he termed it
During the war just before retiring
for the night be would loon over tbe
list of those sentenced by Acourtmar-
tial to be1 executed to see if be could
not find some shadow of an excuse to
interpose ' Many a telegram was
flashed from the White House to the
commander- ‘Suspend execution un
til furtber orders from tae A Lin
coin" : He said “I cannot Bleep at
night when I know some poor boy is to
be‘shot at sunrise"— Editor
(Continued from last issue) '
jMr Lincoln's confidence in the
justness of the antislavery battle
triever filtered through the years
I knew him In January 1859
while the Democrats were cele-
beating the election of Stephen
! A Douglas to the United State
Senate Archibald f Williams
whom I have riientibh: before
dune into Lincoln's oOe and
' fihding him writing said: “Well
the Democrats are making a great
noise over their ylctory" Look-
ing up Lincoln replied: "Yes
Archie Douglas has taken this
trick ut the game is not played
r out" His election to -the presi-
dency In' the hext year justified
his confidence ' v ‘
‘ Gradually Mr Lincoln ' had be-
come a figure of national impor-
tance Qn the evening of Feb-
ruary 27 I860 he delivered a
lecture upon the invitation of a
committee of Republicans of New
York and Brooklyn in thehal! of
the Cooper institute in New York
' David Dudley Field the eminent
lawyer escorted him to the plat-
' form and William Cullen Bryant
great both as poet and publicist
Horace Greeley the' noted editor
Thomas ' Corwin the eloquent
statesman and orator of Ohio
and Wendell Phillips the famous
lecturer of Massachusetts were
' present The audience was large
and made ujf of men and women
of culture and influence Ill that
lecture h& made the ablest and
most persuasive argument in fav-
or of the right ancjjbe duty of
t)ie National government to ex-
clude slavery from the territories
contributed by any 'statesman or
logician who took part in that
great discudsibri - that lasted so
many years as An issue before
th& peopl? and in Congress The
next day he went to- New Eng
land to visit his son a student
In a conversation with his part-
ner after his return home Mr
Lincoln spoke of his journey and
of some of the men he met
among’them was a professor of
logic and rhetoric I think of
Harvard or Yale who called on
him at the railway station The
professor said when he had greet-
ed him: Z ’ '
“Mr Lincoln I have come to
ask you before you go how you
acquired the ability and habit of
staling yoiir propositions and
arguments in so few words and
with c so much clearness You
accomplished in your speech to a
remarkable degree what I have
endeavored to teach for many
years" '
t Mr Lincoln said he told him
he hardly knew himself but
when growing up and inearly
manhood he sometimes would
hear preachers and stump speak-
ers usually in the evening and
that he' gave close attention to
what they said ana aftav going
to bed would think' the discourse
over and try to restate what he
had heard in fewer wdrds and
with greater plainness He ad-
ded: “It appeared to me the
speakers lacked brevity and clear
sett"- v"- Vo
What Mr Lincoln’s ideas upon
strict matters of creed and relig-
ious doctrine may have been no
one can undertake to say Per-
haps he acted upon the dictum of
the well known man of letters
who sai d that men of the world
are all of one religion but what
that is they never tell Some-
times however he discussed
with his partner question of met-
aphysics as I happen to know
One day they were talking of the
Spencerian philosophy— as to the
part of it which bases ethical and
moral Considerations upon the
attainment of happiness As
bearing upon the problem wheth-
re actions seemingly disinterested
are really any more than an en-
lightened self-interest Lincoln
referred to an incident in his own
experience He said: i
“One afternoon I was travel-
ing in my buggy on my way to
fill an appointment for a political
speech in the evening when I
came to a very muddy place in
the road ' By careful driving to
one side I got through but I saw
a hog stuck fast with his head
still out of the stiff mud and I
knew that it would never get out
without help My boots were
polished and I was dressed for
the meeting arid drove on but
thinking of the loss to the owner
and the cruelty to the animal I
did not feel satisfied and thought
it would he Wrong to leave the
hog there to perish and turned
back and got out and pulled the
animal from the mire to solid
ground1 then found some water
nearby and -washed my hand
and drove on My action seemed
disinterested - Jautoh further
reflection ’I fountl that the act
was done to regain my peace of
mind ' my own happiness and
was not entirely disinterested on
my part"- V
A number of those who have
undertaken to write upop Mr
Liricoln’8 life have seemed to
think that by picturing' his life
as squalid as possible they have
thereby done him great honor
Particulars of his early years se-
lected without judgment from
those who either did not know
the facts or had A motive in mis-
representing then have
tl Yea ts lb pxfcba m authentic
Even his professional csreer has
not received the credit to which
hie marvelous legs! capacity enti-
tled it Sayjriga hive r been at-
tributed to him' which reflected
simply the commonness and vul-
garity of the person repeating
the saying t Details of this kind
have been industriously collected
by those who had'qpt sufllcient
judgment to discriminate between
the original saying and coloring
given to il by -the mind' through
which ' it' was "filtered' ’ He
has been represented las' uncouth
in his hianner and unrefined
in his dally speech but any close-
observer ought to know that a
man whpse chief characteristic
in manner was courtesy and kind-
ness and whose every - written
and authentically spoken word
was notable for its finished pro-
priety W hi' Incipable of such a
manner or of such conversation
Fortunately I was present at a
time when the rehl man would be
apparent and I fay memory retains
an exact injpiessionof occuj:-
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About 9 o'clock' on the morning
of May' 18 I860 'the day when
Lincoln wag' first nominated' for
the 'Presidency' t Wpnt tq ‘his
office in Springfield and found
there Lewis RossetteaV lawyer
and Mr Littlefield sPtotudeht in
the office' Soon ’Aftei'wardd Mr
Lincolp arrive CfII -He
said as hg came in: i “WU
boys what do you know?’? Mr
Littiefield told him what he had
heard ' Lincoln then said that '
Dr Wallace had come dowp from
Chicago that morning and that he
thought Seward showed i great
strength One of us said: “The
Seward men had a' parade last
night and Tom Hyer the great
pugilst was in the procession
and carried the flag" He then
said “I would like to know what
Judge Davis thinks of the situst-
Ion" and added: “He Is a strong
man in a crowd like that he can
put his hand on aman'sr shoulder
in a very friendlx manner and
talk to him aboiit as he pleases
without appearing dictatorial or '
top familiar and without giving-
the slightest offense " : -
According to my observation '
this was exactly descriptive of
Judge DaviSs Mr Lincoln was a
close observer of human conduct -
without appearing to be so and1
was of course an excellent judge
of men 1 said to him: -'-'John
EL Rosette came down this morn-'
mg isad'JmTbeliMe 'Ke ioCk the
train called at the lHinoig head-
qoarters and Judge Davis said to
him that he believed you -r would
be nominated In a little while
Hdward L Baker Ihe editor1 of
the - Illinois State Journal at
Springfield came in ' with two
telegrams the’ first -saying that
the delegates were coming into
the convention hall and' the sec-
bd"1 Conveying the intelligence
tiiaif tiie' names of the candidates
for nomination for President had
been placed before the convention
and -that Lincoln’s' name was
received with the greatest enthu-
siasm - Baker went out but in a
short time returned with a tele-
gram showing the first ballot
giving Mr Seward 173 1-2 viptes
and Mr Lincoln 102- -the rest ol'
the votes being scattered among
other candidates for1 the nomina-
tion Mr Lincoln looked It the
dispatch but gave nojexprjession
of satisfaction or dissatisfaction
Not long -afterward he-said:
‘"The -dispatches appear to be
coming-to the Journal office by
arrangement I presume we had
better go’over there’ And Wil-
liam Davis and myself went along
with him On ouir waytib the
Journal office' we passed the foot
of tiie stairway leading from the
siddwalk yp to the telegraph' office
and Mr’Lincolii said' 'We had
as well go up ! it is about time
for the second ballot to come"
(Continued 'next issue)
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The Cleo Chieftain. (Cleo, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, April 25, 1913, newspaper, April 25, 1913; Cleo, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1861021/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed May 27, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.