Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1869 — The Memory of Lincoln in France. [ARTICLE]

The Memory of Lincoln in France.

There was recertly held in Paris a meeting to commemorate the memory of Abraham Lincoln. After Professor La boulaye came Mr. Chochin, the principal orator. He traced of Lincoln from his boyhood up to his death, and held him op is a model of a patriot, statesman and Cristian man. He quoted from his speeches and writings to show that he was a great political thinker, and that his ideas were ot that class of elementary ideas on which great governments may be built and great deeds'accomplished. If you have not yet awakened to the fact in America, says a Paris letter, you will soon do so, that Lincoln is hereafter to take a stand as one of the great landmarks in history. If you do not yet comprehend the immensity of the role he played in the political progress of mankind, these people do. While yon are still embarrassed with certain crudities in character, these people see nothing but his grandeur, and desire to see nothing more.