Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — James Parton's Prediction. [ARTICLE]

James Parton's Prediction.

In 1802, James Parton, the celebrated biographical writer, made the following prediction in regard to Abraham Lincoln: History will say of Mr. Lincoln that no man of a more genial temperament, a more kindly nature, ever tenanted the White House; that he gave all-his time, his thoughts, his energies, to the discharge of duties of unprecedented magnitude and urgency; that, hating no man, he steadfastly endeavored to win the confidence and love of all the loyal and patriotic, and that, in spite of four chequered years of such responsibility and atyciety as has seldom fallen to the lot of man, he bore away from the Capitol the sunny temper and blithe frankness of his boyhood, returning to mingle with his old neighbors as one with them in heart and in manner, in retirement as in power a happy specimen of the men whom Liberty and Democracy train in the log cabin and by the rudest hearth to guide the counsels of the Republic and influence the destinies of the people.