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    me THE KENTUCRIAN.
V  _ ,  and enter into a fellowship with him in his great estate—that,
  }   though very highly exalted, he is still a friend and brother. _
  i   Such a man was Abraham Lincoln. Thos. Lincoln was a car- ~
    penter. Nancy Hanks was the daughter of a carpenter.
    What a name! Nancy Hanks! Compare it with Helen or I
    Lncretia or Portia, or Martha Dandridge. Could a woman ‘  .
    have a less pretentious, less high sounding name than Nancy s
    ` Hanks? There is no note of the English peerage in it.  
    Yet, dear woman of the lowly log cabin, thy name shall live _,
ill   forever. Thou, too, humble Kentucky mother, didst bring I
 __.."`   into the world a mighty man; thou didst give birth, too, to A
— · _ , ·  ' "I ove tot in o ra iam inco u, itt e e, in a en- ii
    tucky cabin, lying in his pine cradle wrapped in his home-spun
    baby garments, and Nancy Hanks singing her lullaby to him  
is   or lifting him to her bosom and nourishing him with her own if
"   `   life for God and the American people a11d the poor slave and  
{ `   all the other poor of the earth and the assassin’s bullet and  
  T •·—{; immortal fame——and let us trust for the eternal service of the  
{ T ·g* Carpenter and reputed sonzof the carpenter who fills the throne  
    of the universe and is invested with authority both in heaven  
‘ {   andnpon earth .Parting from my theme a little, I desire to call  
_ V   your attention to the remarkable fact that the two great leaders  
P ._   in the most stnpendious conflict of history were born in Ken-  
    tucky. Jefferson Davis, the trusted statesman and intrepid  
S     leader and courtly gentleman, was born on the grd day of june  
, {   1808, in Christian county, Ky. Abraham Lincoln, on the fol-  
      lowing 12th of February, 1803, was born in Hardin County,  .
‘ ii   Ky. All hail! old Kentucky. In these births was prefigured  
, i   the division which marked Kentucky in the great war. South  
l   Carolina was a unit. Massachusetts was a unit. Kentucky  
»   was divided, yet Kentucky furnished a President and leader  
.`   ior South Carolina, aud, strange to tell, a President and leader  
'   or Massachusetts as well.  
l   justin Smith Morrill, whose birth we celebrate to-day,  if
‘ *   was not of aristocratic lineage, and certainly he was not a man  
‘ -   of genius. His parents were obscure and humble people. He  
_   belongs to the class of Lincoln. He was lowly born. At the  
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