He opened himself to men in different directions." When Holland told the story of Lincoln's drawing a New Testament from his breast and avowing that here was the "rock on which I stand," Herndon was beside himself with disgust on the question of Mr.
Holland, could not disguise a certain irritation with Lincoln as a subject: "He rarely showed more than one aspect of himself to one man. His devoted partner, William Herndon, once described him as "the most secretive, reticent, shut-mouthed man that ever lived" and his first biographer, Josiah G. In life, to those who knew and loved him best, Lincoln often seemed an enigma. The echo of his thoughts is heard in many lands his strength of purpose remains vigorously alive wherever people, throwing off the many guises of human oppression, struggle toward the self-determination that he described so beautifully upon a hillside at Gettysburg. Today, a century and a half after his birth, the magic of the man has no geographical boundary. Time would treat this image kindly the once gawky, ridiculed figure would acquire dignity, even majesty into the once homely, deep-seamed face would come composure and even beauty. so did Lincoln pass from history into legend, becoming an image of the mind and heart.
Lad of the Kentucky hills and Indiana forests, gangling farmhand, railsplitter and shopkeeper, self-taught surveyor and lawyer, hesitant suitor, indulgent husband and father, statesman schooled in the rough and tumble of prairie politics. So often, in that Kentucky wilderness, a birth, a death became an elusive event of personal record.įifty-six years later when, on a hushed April morning, this child of the frontier, now the sixteenth President of the United States, died of a bullet wound, Abraham Lincoln already belonged to the ages. When Aunt Peggy Walters, who was to help Nancy, went down the road toward the Lincoln cabin, the Sparrows likely fixed the date in memory: the twelfth of February, 1809. Wirth, Director National Park Service vii Introduction.ĪLONG the Big South Fork of Nolin's Creek, on a Sunday in frosty February, neighbors like Tom and Betsy Sparrow whispered that it was nearing Nancy's time. Members appointed by the President of the United States: Members appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives: Members appointed by the President of the Senate: The Speaker of the House of Representatives Clyde Walton v Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission.
0 kommentar(er)
