We charge him with having broken his coronation oath; and we are told that he

kept his marriage vow! We accuse him of having given up his people to the

merciless inflictions of the most hot-headed and hard-hearted of prelates; and

the defence is, that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him! We

censure him for having violated the articles of the Petition of Right, after

having, for good and valuable consideration, promised to observe them; and we

are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the

morning! It is to such considerations as these, together with his Vandyke dress,

his handsome face, and his peaked beard, that he owes, we verily believe, most

of his popularity with the present generation.

 

--T.B. MACAULAY.

 

_ABRAHAM LINCOLN_

 

We needed not that he should put on paper that he believed in slavery, who, with

treason, with murder, with cruelty infernal, hovered around that majestic man to

destroy his life. He was himself but the long sting with which slavery struck at

liberty; and he carried the poison that belonged to slavery. As long as this

nation lasts, it will never be forgotten that we have one martyred

President--never! Never, while time lasts, while heaven lasts, while hell rocks

and groans, will it be forgotten that slavery, by its minions, slew him, and in

slaying him made manifest its whole nature and tendency.

 

But another thing for us to remember is that this blow was aimed at the life of