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people should be their leader. There was not merely apootio propriety in this, but in ft\e adaptation of means to the end, a higher purpose w as served. Mr. Lincoln, in bis own person, hadexperienced the wants, the trials, the joys, the hopes, the aspirations of the people. Heknew them and they him, as men know on/s another who have had a common origin, life and ed-ucation. The consequence was, that in th© vi. cissitudes of the last four years, never has he mistaken the popular wishes; never have the people mistaken him ; never has he failed them; never have they failed him. In this harmony between citizen and magistrate, is to be found the po\*er beneath which the most giant rebellion of history is now crumbling to the dust. Mr. Lincoln brought to the discharge of his duties an incomparable temper; never elated by success, never depressed by disaster; sometimes, perhaps, drawn from the path of stern duty by the tenderness of his nature, never driven to undue *eyerity by the lashes of Acrimonious epithet, or :he keener thrusts of sarcasm and ridicule; and cone, in these respects has suffered more :han he. flow much we owe to this equable and iindlv temperament. we shall never know. The
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, Apr 15, 1865
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