Ottawa Hills High School - Legend Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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'f i t-1' , ' ' L. r . - ' 1 Q. , V fi ew cas- L ff su Lf on c4 Qn flu, :flaw c-X in JW The Soul gf coin Prize Winning Omtion in Lincoln Contfftfof Senior High School Hfld Ffbrnary II, 1927 HARRY E. GLASS, '28 NO man's life has been the subject of such comprehensive analysis and thorough research in the last half century as has Abraham Lincoln's. Every phase of his career has found publication in the works and through the efforts of universally famous historians, biographers and playwrights. Therefore it is my intention to deviate from a reiteration of what everyone knows to an explanation of that which is least known, but is still more intriguing-the soul of the man. When we reflect that it was in a rude log cabin on the wide western slopes of the Appalachians that he was given birth, born without a distinguished ancestry, reared without an education save that gleaned from a few cherished books, sent out into the world in poverty, a youth spent in the squalidness of privation and oppressed with the stigma of an ungainly appearance, a young manhood that knew only the dint of onerous labor, when we reflect that it was a man born under such circumstances and grown in such an environment, who later was to hold the des- tinies of the nation in his hand, guide it to safety through the greatest crisis it had ever faced, and himself attain by force of character alone the summits of the sublime, perhaps we can comprehend the spiritual significance of the name!Lincoln. I-Ie was, both of necessity and preference, sympathetic with the feelings, ideas and aspirations of the common people. In him burned their desires and their hopes together with their hatreds and dislikes. There is nothing which inculcates in one a love for and an appreciation of liberty so much as to gaze upon a spectacle of unmitigated oppression. Lincoln had barely attained his majority when that experience was to be his. While in New Orleans he witnessed the unwilling sub- jugation of one race to another and the misery attendant upon such a process. Whereas his opinion regarding slavery had previously been that it was wrong, what he witnessed in the slave market of that great southern city aroused in him an emotion which he had never felt before. Turning to the friend who was with him he said, If I can ever hit that thing I will hit it hardlw How little did he realize that that chance was soon to be his, that in thirty years he would lead the forces which would sweep that institution from the face of American civiliza- tion. Charity must surely be given a high place in the character of Lincoln, charity tempered with sound judgment and a wealth of human understanding, charity which was no less gracious and beautiful toward the simple people from which he sprang as the charity which later decreed the pardoning of the South and the forgiving of its infidelity. A great star was set for him and a great task to be given him. As I picture Lincoln standing in his home, confronted by the delegation offering him the nomina- tion and certain election to the presidency, had it been given him at that moment to peer into the future, gaze upon the nation in arms, see himself the center of