3. His love of justice and righteousness between man and man,
and between nations guided him in all things.
4. His kindness of heart, and his sympathies for mankind were
as an overflowing fountain.
5. Abraham Lincoln was raised up of God, and in a sense
inspired for the place and work he fulfilled in the world.
“Perhaps the most striking illustration of superior wisdom and power as
a ruler,” said the speaker, “was his reply to Mr. Seward’s proposition
to declare war against France and Spain, and impliedly against England
and Russia, only one month after Lincoln’s inauguration. The reply was
complete; so was his mastery over the most astute and scholarly statesman
and diplomatist of the age. While preparing that reply, the same night
after receiving Mr. Seward’s wonderful proposals,--a reply which the best
critics of the world have declared needed not another word, and would not
have been complete with one word lacking,--he was overheard repeating to
himself audibly over and over, ‘One war at a time, one war at a time, one
war at a time.’”