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served. Mr. Lincoln, in his own person, hadexperienced the wants, the trials, the joys, the hopes, the aspirations of the people. He knew them and they him, as men know ou£ another who have had a common origin, life and ed-ucation. The consequence was, that in th© vi. eissitudes 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 stem duty by the tenderness of his nature, never driven to undue seyerity by the lashes of acrimonious epithet, or the keener thrusts of sarcasm and ridicule; and none, in these respects has suffered more than he. how much we owe to this equable and kindly temperament, we shall never know. The
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, Apr 15, 1865
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