Abraham Lincoln a Memorial Address Delivered Before the American Society for Th
Abraham Lincoln a Memorial Address Delivered Before the American Society for Th
Ethelbert Dudley Warfield
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His task was being made harder every day by the feebleness of Buchanan's administration. Like a tiny stream eating through the levees which hold the great Mississippi in bounds the little thread of disunion senti- ment spread. The little trickling stream fast became a broad destroying flood. How long would it take till all the South should be submerged? Think of the man sitting at his home waiting, waiting, till he could legally spring forward to fill the breach and check the torrent ! The scen...e naturally suggests the last days of the Roman Republic. The picture which Cicero has left us in his letters of the way he sat and watched the swift decay of his beloved country, the hopeless attitude of the con- servatives, the patient hopefulness of the few who had they but a leader ready might have saved the state. Pompey was as futile as our own ineffectual President. The party of order waited then when it might have struck. Lincoln and his party might have struck when they waited. But he was as sagacious as he was patient.
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