Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Republican Party, Vol. 1 of 2: A History of Its Fifty Years Existence, and a Record of Its Measures and Leaders
This brief speech was typical of Lincoln alike in its strong common sense and in its lofty standard of morality; and the Republican party today is a living organism of good because it has continued responsive to those thoughts and purposes of its founders which were given their highest expression in the life of the great martyred President. In its essentials, human nature does not change; or at least the change is very slow. In the successive national trials, great and small, which this country has had to face Since the day, half a century ago, when the Republican party began its career, the same qualities have inevitably been displayed - the qualities of strength and weakness, of wisdom and folly, of evil and good; and in each of these crises we have done well or ill about in proportion as we have shown the qualities which made us do well or ill in the others. The problems Shift from generation to generation; but, after all, in each case the danger is due to fundamentally the same evil tendencies, and in each case success can come only by the exercise of wisdom and courage, energy and high mindedness. This is the reason why the history of the Re publican party in the past is not merely of abiding interest to the student, but is of present importance to every man who seeks in practical fashion actually to apply the principles of civic righteousness.
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