Sumner High School - Spindrift Yearbook (East Sullivan, ME)

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THE HARBOR BEACON genrus hrs character or hrs deeds No general so great has apperared rn our modern trmes He armed at nothrng less than unn ersal soverergnrty and had he not when lntoxr cated Wrth hrs conquests attempted rmpossr b1l1t1es hrs power would have been practrcally unllmrted rn France Hrs xrctorres were un checked untrl at Waterloo when England and Prussra combrned agarnst hlm He was a mrlrtary prodlgy equally great ID tactrcs and strategv a master of all rmprox ements whrch had been made rn the art of war from Epam rnondas to Frederrck II He stands out rn hrstory rn a marked manner wrth two srdes great and httle good and bad for none can deny hrm many qualrtres It was a great servrce that Napolean rendered to France at the serge of Toulon Thrs Was hrs startrng pornt from thrs as a nucleus hrs fame grew swrftly towards 1tS hrghest pornt Ineed not descrrbe Naploeon s fall a lesson to all future tyrants and conquerers of the world a moral to be pondered as long as hrstory shall be wrrtten Drd lxapoleon lrve rn va1n'7 Wo great man lrves rn xarn He rs ever whether good or bad the rnstrument of God Just as Gust tavas Adolphus was the mstrument of C od rn savrng Holland just as VK ashrngton was the rn strument rn sawrng Amerlca so Napoleon was Hrs rnstrument rn freerng France from external enemres and for vrndlcatrng the substantral benefit of an honest but uncontrollable Revo lutron Just at the trme that Prussra was under the control of Napoleon III Prrnce Brsmark be came promrnent ln the polrtrcal field BIS mark arose slowly but steadrlg wrth the whole force of hrs genrus Among the defenders of of the throne he had but few frrends but to these he was falthful He never was popular urtrl he made Prussra the most powerful mllrtary state rn Europe He was the most hated and des prsed man rn the krngdom but after defeatrng Austrra he became the natlons rdol Hrs skrll rn mrlrtary affarrs 1n the war wrth France showed that he wasa mllrtary genuls as well as a poll trcran It rs sard that he IS frank rn matters he does not care to conceal and rs as srmple as a chrld when not drsputed or wrthstood but op posed rs as fierce as a lron a spolled man of suc cess yet not rntoxrcated wrth power haughty and rrrrtable perhaps but never varn lrke a French statesman rn office a VS ebster rather than a T hrers The condrtrons ln the Lnrted States when Abraham Lrncoln took hrs place at the head of the natron are well known to all Drssensron was rrfe Drssensron over tarrff over the ex tensron of slay ery on er every concerv able sub Ject that could be of common rnterest to the two sectrons of the country whose people were so totally unlrke As to be expected c1v1l war was the result In such a state of affarrs as thrs there rs the necessrty of a strong man to rule the country as It should be ruled Abraham Lrncoln was the man The fame of Lrncoln rs rncreasrng as the rnner hrstory of the great struggle for hfe of the natron becomes known ll e are comrng to apprecrate mor e and more 'rs tmre grves better perspectrve Father Abraham who rn that Red Sea passage of fraternal strrfe was readv to lrsten to ev ery tale of sorrow who rt rs sard was not only a great statesman out a sy mpathetlc under standrrrv man He gurd d the affarrs of state wlth a wrsdom a patrence a courage whrch be lrttle all p1 arse and made hlm seem rndeed a man drvrnelx brought forward not only to set the captrw es free but rn order that Got ern ment of the people by the people and for the people mrvht not perrsh from the earth Hrs task was s ch as no man faced before The great republrc the only great and promrsmg e perrment rn self gox er nrrent that the world had ex er seen seemed about to end after all rn farlure Just at the trme that Lrncoln had brought order out of strrfe and rebellron he was struck down bw an assassrn Qorrow more deep cannot be rmagrned than that Whrch em eloped our country C1t1es . . . 7 . . . .- , . x , - , - 1 1 ' v ' 1 r . . . . 7. . 7 - . . v . . ' 1 1 ' 7 . . . . . . . . v . V 1 . . . . . Y . - . . , . . . . V ' , 7 . v - 9 1 r . . , 1 . , . , . 1 . . Y . . . , v . . . . x N, . ' . . v . . Q . . - . . , c 4 , 1 - ' I 7 1 1 . 1 ' 1 1 r . v. . , 1 Y . .- 1 A 1 1 . 1 . . . . . D .Q C, . c . . . . . . Jw . H . - Y 7 7 ' 1 A . v' v Y . c v' , ' ' . ' v . ' . . 66 , - 7 . . - Y 1 1 1 . . . . . - . . ,, . C, . . Y . . I ,ci u l ' 1 ' gn 1' . v 1 1 1 A 1 1 c I , r . A ' 5 . . . . v . r . ' . .. , . . . . . . n L . v .