The Personal Influence of Abraham Lincoln a Sermon Preached On the National Fa
The Personal Influence of Abraham Lincoln a Sermon Preached On the National Fa
Erskine Norman White
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Doubtless he was not their cause. It has been very truly said, for example, in reference to his treatment of slavery, that " he was chosen as men usually are, to do that which he was most fearful of doing — not because he did not see that it was a great work — but because he only very gradu- ally opened his eyes to its being a work in which he, with his defined duties, had a right to meddle. " But, nevertheless, the movement is indelibly impressed with his characteristics. So, too, it is true t...hat he never assumed the airs or issued the mandates of a despot. The American peo- ple in the latter half of the nineteenth century neither want nor need a Ca3sar, a Charlemagne, a Napoleon, nor, I think I may add, a Cromwell or a Jackson. But he was " influenced by events" ! There are two ways for a navigator to be influenced 10 by winds and tides. He may either stand with his hands by his side and with month closed, and drift, drift aimlessly and idly, or he may study the winds and tides, and so direct his course that instead of vainly battling them, they may be made the very cause of his swift and safe progress.
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