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Title: Tributes to Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Presidents
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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Abraham LincolnAssociation will pay tribute to hiscareer tomorrow. Frank N. Belgrano, national com-mander of the American Legion, willspeak at Lincolns Tomb tomorrow. The life of Lincoln challenges us togring to completion or to carry forwardthe great work to which he set hishand—the work, as he described it, ofbuilding a nation, pure, true andrighteous, which will be a blessing toall mankind, said Dr. Cody. Lincolns aim for democracy in hisGettysburg speech is that it should notperish from the earth, not merely fromhis own country. Though the pressureof internal problems gave him littleopportunity to deal with external re-lations, his spirit was not local or na-tional in its range, but wide as theworld. . . . No nation today, even thestrongest, can hold itself aloof fromthe rest of the world in isolated self-sufficiency. Dr. Cody declared that Canada andthe United States are both good pat- ^ecurity-and-gelfarfti.-butsy.ouidLyrreak pota. but egua^jgood .neighbors, 8 ) Sandburg, Carl
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Poet and Student of Abraham Lincoln Gives PrincipalAddress on Program Dedicating Lincoln Room of ReisLibrary; Applause Calls Speaker Back, Brings EncoreReading of Poem; Ida M. Tarbell Tributed. An audience that overflowed Ford Memorial Chapel ofAllegheny College was held spellbound last night by CarlSandburg. The great poet and Lincoln scholar, delivering theprincipal address at exercises dedicating the Lincoln Roomof the Reis Library, brought more than his presence and arich voice and feeling for words before his audience in the icollege chapel. He brought a deep and solemn reverence ;for Abraham Lincoln. This hisauditors took away with them. What he said of Lincolns writ-ings—they are rhythmic and ca-denced, delicately haunting mu-sic—applied throughout to Mr.Sandburgs address. Applause called him forwardagain at the close of his talk. Whenthe audience would not be contentwith a gracious bow of thanks, Mr.Sandburg obliged by reading one ofhis poems. It was the reading closing th

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