Rare Lincolniana Author:Benjamin Franklin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AND EDWIN M. STANTON ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE BURNSIDE POST, NO. 8 Department Of The Potomac, G. A. R. APRIL 25, 1889 COMRADE THOMAS M. VINCENT ... more » Assistant Adjutant General, and Brigadier General by Brevet, U. S. A. TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK REPRINTED WILLIAM ABBATT 1917 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND EDWIN M. STANTON Men are known by their works, and, therefore, in giving some attention this evening to events connected with Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton, it will not be out of place to refer to some of their great labors from 1861 to 1865. George Bancroft, on a most memorable occasion, after referring to the prediction of a West Jersey Quaker, 120 years before, that the consequence of importing slaves would "be grievous to posterity," and the language of Patrick Henry, in 1773, that a serious view of the subject "gives a gloomy prospect to future times," continued by quoting, in connection with efforts for emancipation and abolition, words of despair from Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and others, and recited how the enslavement of the African resulted in a storm, adding: "The storm rose to a whirlwind; who should allay its wrath? The most experienced statesman of the country had failed; there was no hope from those who were great in the flesh; could relief come from one whose wisdom was like the wisdom of little children? "The choice of America fell on a man born west of the Alleghenies, in the cabin of poor people of Hardin County, Kentucky—Abraham Lincoln." As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy he was soon confronted with civil war, and recognized the aphorism: "The sole object of a just war is to make the enemy feel the evils of his injustice, and, by his sufferings, amend his ways; he must, therefore, be attacked in the most acce...« less