The National prohibition now extended everywhere that the flag floated; freedom of the person became thenceforth a matter of National concern.

The power of the State was subordinated to the continuing and supreme authority of the Nation.

If they could not participate in the enactment of Statute Law, how could they participate in the far weightier duty of framing the Organic Law of the Republic?

Lincoln's sound judgment was apparent in this as in other great duties.

There are single judges in our history who, in point of learning, rank higher in the estimation of the legal profession, but perhaps never a majority of the court who were superior in all the qualities which adorn the Judicial character.

It is not among the least of the honors belonging to the elder Adams that he gave to the country the illustrious Chief Justice Marshall.

He said, "This nation has been able thus far to conduct a domestic war of unparalleled magnitude and cost without appealing for aid to any foreign people.

It has chosen to demonstrate its power to put down insurrection by its own strength, and furnish no pretense for doubt of its entire ability to do so, either to domestic or foreign foes.

The people of the United States have felt a just pride in this position before the world.

After nearly four years of a most expensive and wasting war, the means to continue it seem apparently undiminished, while the determination to prosecute it with vigor to the end is unabated.

He had entered the service with no factitious advantage, and his promotion, from the first to the last, had been based on merit alone,--without the aid of political influence, without the interposition of personal friends.

Courage is as contagious as fear, and General Grant possessed in the highest degree that faculty which is essential to all great commanders,-- the faculty of imparting throughout the rank and file of his army the same determination to win…

Self-control is the first requisite for him who aims to control others.

Lincoln united firmness and gentleness in a singular degree.

Ready to hear argument and always open to conviction, he adhered tenaciously to the conclusions which he had finally reached.

Altogether modest, he had confidence in himself, trusted to the reasoning of his own mind, believed in the correctness of his own judgment.

Appreciating wit and humor, he relished a good story, especially if it illustrated a truth or strengthened an argument, and he had a vast fund of illustrative anecdote which he used with the happiest effect.

His life was altogether a serious one--inspired by the noblest spirit, devoted to the highest aims.

He presented an extraordinary combination of mental and moral qualities.

As a statesman he had the loftiest ideal, and it fell to his lot to inaugurate measures which changed the fate of millions of living men, of tens of millions yet to be born.

As a manager of political issues and master of the art of presenting them, he has had no rival in this country unless one be found in Jefferson.

Lincoln's ability was of a far higher and broader character.

He sought to control men through their reason and their conscience.

The only art the employed was that of presenting his views so convincingly as to force conviction on the minds of his hearers and his readers.

It is indeed the expression of one who realized that he was clothed with all the power belonging to his great office.