Excerpt from The Arguenot, Vol. 2: June, 1922Washington's twine grew stronger and stronger as the years passed, as great men like Franklin, Jefferson, Webster, and Clay came forth and con tributed their life's work to the sole cause - that their nation might live. The twine grew stronger and stronger, more fibres were added to it; more states, more territories were added to the nation, and more prestige was gained among the nations of the world.But danger stalked near. The curse of slavery hung as a knife over the. Good and promising twine, threatening to fall and cut it asunder. Thus, when Abraham Lincoln, our nation's greatest champion, came to lead the nation, he found it approaching the greatest crisis of its history. He found himself in surroundings more difficult and more perplexing than any other executive of a government had ever encountered. But he grimly pulled his nation through the Civil War. His wonderful simplicity of character, his instinctive directness of thought, and his absolute honesty of mind won for him the whole - hearted support with which the North responded to his cry to save the Union. Taking from Lincoln his indomitable courage, his tireless patience, and his unlimited persistence, his armies saved the Union from dissolution, joined together again the two separated pieces of twine, the North and the South, and consequently wiped out the terrible curse of slavery. Abraham Lincoln contributed the links of unity, freedom, equal ity, and democracy to'ithe strong cable which was to develop soon after his death.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.