of the Revolution.

"In those days, by common consent, the spread of the black man's bondage
in the new countries was prohibited; but now Congress decides that it
will not continue the prohibition, and the Supreme Court decides that it
could not if it would.

"In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all,
and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of
the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed and sneered at, and
constructed and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise
from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

"All the powers of earth seem combining against the slave; Mammon is
after him, ambition follows, philosophy follows, and the theology of the
day is fast joining the cry."

LINCOLN MADE MANY NOTABLE SPEECHES.

Abraham Lincoln made many notable addresses and speeches during his
career previous to the time of his election to the Presidency.

However, beautiful in thought and expression as they were, they were not
appreciated by those who heard and read them until after the people
of the United States and the world had come to understand the man who
delivered them.

Lincoln had the rare and valuable faculty of putting the most sublime
feeling into his speeches; and he never found it necessary to incumber
his wisest, wittiest and most famous sayings with a weakening mass of
words.

He put his thoughts into the simplest language, so that all might
comprehend, and he never said anything which was not full of the deepest
meaning.

WHAT AILED THE BOYS.

Mr. Roland Diller, who was one of Mr. Lincoln's neighbors in
Springfield, tells the following:

"I was called to the door one day by the cries of children in the
street, and there was Mr. Lincoln, striding by with two of his boys,
both of whom were wailing aloud. 'Why, Mr. Lincoln, what's the matter
with the boys?' I asked.

"'Just what's the matter with the whole world,' Lincoln replied. 'I've
got three walnuts, and each wants two.'"

TAD'S CONFEDERATE FLAG.

One of the prettiest incidents in the closing days of the Civil War
occurred when the troops, 'marching home again,' passed in grand form,
if with well-worn uniforms and tattered bunting, before the White House.

Naturally, an immense crowd had assembled on the streets, the lawns,
porches, balconies, and windows, even those of the executive mansion
itself being crowded to excess. A central figure was t