Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House incidents, war reminiscences, etc. . They aresupposed to have no sympathy of feeling or interest withthose very persons whom it is their object to convinceand persuade. And again, it is so easy and so common to ascribemotives to men of these classes other than those theyprofess to act upon. The preacher, it is said, advocatestemperance because he is a fanatic; and desires a unionof the Church and State; the lawyer from his pride andvanity of hearing himself speak; and the hired agent f
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Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House incidents, war reminiscences, etc. . They aresupposed to have no sympathy of feeling or interest withthose very persons whom it is their object to convinceand persuade. And again, it is so easy and so common to ascribemotives to men of these classes other than those theyprofess to act upon. The preacher, it is said, advocatestemperance because he is a fanatic; and desires a unionof the Church and State; the lawyer from his pride andvanity of hearing himself speak; and the hired agent forhis salary. But when one who has long been known as a victim ofintemperance bursts the fetters thaf have bound him, andappears before his neighbors clothed in his right mind, a redeemed specimen of long-lost humanity, and standsup with tears of joy trembling in his eyes to tell of themiseries once endured, now to be endured no more for-ever; of his once naked and starving children, now fedand clad comfortably; of a wife long weighed down withwoe, weeping and a broken heart, now restored tohealth, happiness, and a renewed affection, and how. (3ii) 312 LINCOLN S STORIES AND SPEECHES. easily it is all done, once resolved to be done; how sim-ple his language; there is a logic and an eloquence in itthat few with human feelings can resist. They cannot say that he desires a union with Churchand State, for he is not a church memher; they cannotsay he is vain of hearing himself speak, for his whole de-meanor shows he would gladly avoid speaking at all; theycannot say he speaks for pay, for he receives none. Norcan his sincerity in any way be doubted, or his sympathyfor those he would persuade to imitate his example bedenied. In my judgment it is to the battles of this new class ofchampions that our late success is greatly, perhaps chief-ly, owing. But had the old school champions them-selves been of the most wise selecting? Was their sys-tem of tactics the most judicious? It seems to m