A Toast to Abraham Lincoln
Excerpts from the Address of Hon. Robert G. Cousins
On the Twelfth of February, Nineteen Hundred
In every part and in almost every city in America, on this last anniversary
in the century which produced him, a grateful people meet to pay their homage to
the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
Not that it is possible for human speech to add to his renown,
but rather that we may dedicate ourselves and the Nation which he loved
to a better understanding of his character and the principles for which he lived and died.