A Discourse On the Death of President Lincoln Delivered in St Marks Methodist
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But never, in all history, have the masses given their adhesion to, and confided in, a weak man. When left to them- selves, they instinctively and unconsciously, but infallibly, rally around and repose their faith in those who are strong in native endowments, and equal to the given emergency. And when, in 1860, the elements of secession and discord were gathering and crystalizing into organized form, and the great crisis of our history had well nigh arrived, as if they had pre- monitions of the... coming storm and whirlwind, with a sagacity all the more infidlible for being instinctive, they turned away from the crowd of politicians and statesmen who had for lono- years engaged the eye and ear of the public, and selected Abra- ham Lincoln as the nation's chief The results have justified the choice, and furnished another illustration of the wisdom of popu- lar elections as a means of designating men for high public stations. And when about to take the reins of power which the people had elected him to hold, all inexperienced as he was, and though 14 the clouds of secession fury were already rolling up and covering our political heavens, he shows no trepidation, no fear.
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