Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1901 — A Diplomat’s Tribute to Lincoln. [ARTICLE]

A Diplomat’s Tribute to Lincoln.

Like a beacon burning through all the nights is the memory of Abraham Lincoln's personality. “Of all the great men I have known,” says Sir Edward Malet, the English diplomatist, in his just published volume of reminiscences, “President Lincoln is one who lias left upon me the impression of a sterling son of God. Straightforward, unflinching, not loving the work he had to do, but facing it with a bold and true heart; mild whenever he had a chance; stern as iron when the public weal required It, following a bee-line to the goal which duty set before him. I can still feel the grip of his massive hand and the searching look of his kindly eye.”