Lincoln Memoirs: From the Log Cabin to the White House (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Lincoln Memoirs: From the Log Cabin to the White House

A new century has come, since Lincoln gave up his life for his country. All the conditions with which he was familiar have changed. America has become a world power, with all the responsibilities that the term implies.

All things have become new. The bitter animosities extreme partisanship and sectional hatred that was so long a part of public life, have given way to the resistless spirit of progress. Those who were once bitter foes, meet to day in the world of business as friends. Nor is the love of gain the only incentive to this new relationship.

Lincoln has won for himself a place in the hearts of the people, who look back to those days, darkened by their passions, and see with a clearer vision the greatness of the work he wrought.

They know now that it was not Lincoln's war, but their own. Time has proven to them that after all the great leader was their best friend.

Calmer reasoning has convinced his critics that when Lincoln became president he put aside all thought of self and lived only for his stricken country. By the will of the people he became the head of the nation, the commander-in-chief of the army and navy and the arbitrator of eighty millions of people at the most trying period of the nation's history.

How well he discharged the duties of his sacred office the past fifty years have shown. Lincoln neither sought nor desired the presidency. There were others, he said, better fitted for that exalted station than he.

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