Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1917 — Birthday of Lincoln Brings Back Memeories of Speech [ARTICLE]

Birthday of Lincoln Brings Back Memeories of Speech

Today, February 12, which is celebrated throughout the United States as the birthday of former President Lincoln, brings back to one the memory of the famous speech made by President Lincoln at the second inaugural address. The following is taken from the speech made by the president on March 1865: - “Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God will that it continue until all the wealth piled up by the bondsmen’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequitted toil shall be sunk, and Tntil every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said 3,000 years ago, so still it must be said.” “The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. With nalice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan; o do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.