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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1915
Page
3
Poignant excerpt recalling Lincoln as a figure of vast influence and durable strength. The speaker, Edmund Clarence Stedman, praises the hand that bore a nation, noting both its sinewed power and the lines that tell of struggle and suffering.
A letter by Frederick W. Seward recounts how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address and describes bronze inscriptions near Gettysburg National Cemetery. The document includes Judge Will's remarks about dedicating the cemetery on Thursday the 19th and urging President Lincoln to consecrate the grounds, comforting widows and orphans, and reinforcing veterans’ remembrance.
Abraham Lincoln’s grandfather Mordecai Lincoln settled in Kentucky around 1780 and was killed by Indians in 1781 after keeping a small farm there. His uncle Mordecai served in the Kentucky legislature, giving him a reputation as an honorable citizen. Lincoln’s father grew up poor, wandering, and self supporting until buying a farm in Hardin County at age 25.
A house near Elizabeth town Kentucky is said to have been built by Thomas Lincoln the father of Abraham Lincoln. A Cecilian Kentucky resident cites his grandfather Hardin Thomas as having occupied the house and remembers locals saying Thomas Lincoln did the carpenter work. The residence is now vacant.
Whitman notes on August 12, 1864 describe Lincoln’s face as dark brown with deep eyes and latent sadness. He contrasts artists’ depictions and hopes to blend Lincoln’s image with history and literature, calling his life a tragic play for America beyond classical tragedy.
A. G. Spalding notes Abraham Lincoln as a devoted baseball fan and keen player. He recounts Lincoln pausing a committee in Springfield to finish a practice hit before accepting the presidential nomination. Lincoln called for another hit and promised to join the visitors afterward.
Two newly published letters by Abraham Lincoln to Major Richard M. Corwine discuss the 1860 Republican nomination landscape. Dated Springfield Illinois in August 1860 and May 1860, the missives consider Seward Chase Bates Lean and party dynamics, urging confidentiality while outlining state allegiances and delegations for the Chicago convention.
The speaker mentions Jesse K. Duvois the auditor and Judge David Dayin will attend a Saturday gathering with friends from other states. They request to be informed if anything occurs.
A Civil War era remark attributed to Lincoln warns that even all armies of Asia Europe and Africa with earthly treasure and a Bonaparte commander could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or cut a path along the Blue Ridge in a thousand years. The Illinois audience hears a metaphor about limited power and strategic geography.
Lord Curzon of Kedleston praised Abraham Lincoln as the author of modern British eloquence while delivering a lecture in Oxford on Parliamentary Eloquence. He did not name a specific piece but observers believe the Gettysburg Address was the contender.
A terse maxim from Gladstone proclaims there is no appointed space in all creation for the idle man, underscoring a call to diligence. The statement frames a moral stance on productivity and personal responsibility.
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