Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1903 — Man of the People. [ARTICLE]

Man of the People.

The birthday of Abraham Lincoln may well recall the principles which be represented, for which he labored and for which he endured a martyr's death. There is no more popular figure in American history than that of Abraham Lincoln. He was pre-eminently a man of the people. Sprung from the people, ha always remained one of them. Men admired George Washington, but it was an admiration mingled with awe. The people both loved and revered Lincoln. President or rail splitter, he was tha same plftin American citizen, in whom honesty was an instinct, and whose patriot-* ism was part of his very soul.—Charles A. Dana-