D. Roosevelt—Abraham Lincoln with his charity and kindness, his insight and humor, his endurance and faith, has come to be the exempli- fication of our American life. �Woodrow Wilson—Lincoln was the supreme American of our history. He was always a-making, he would have died unfinished if the

MARY LOUISA WALKER ROBERTS* By HELEN NOBLE WORST B LOCKADE-RUNNING during the last days of the Civil War was a serious business, fraught with almost certain disaster ; an adventure to make strong men quail and turn back ; and which held unmitigated terror for a woman. Yet Mary Louisa Walker Roberts

horrors of civil war. May we hope, sir, that our prayer offered here at Wheatland, offered in the presence of one, who, when in power, did not lend his countenance to the shedding of fraternal blood,—may be heard and granted. "Sir, this nation owes you a debt of gratitude—posterity will pay it to your

Judicial Branch of the Government ; but all will yet be well. "Your friend always, "James Buchanan." 1 On the 4th of March, 1861, after Lincoln had taken the oath of office as President of the United States, citizen Buchanan and President Lincoln entered a carriage, and a military procession escorted them

Gettysburg, but from the very beginning of the terrible civil struggle. "We cannot," their statement reads, "wield the sword or the musket, if we would, but we can by our labors assist the fallen, and bind up the bleeding wounds and aching limbs, and by acts of substantial sympathy mitigate the sufferings of

statesman for Pennsylvania." In a letter written from the United States Customs House in Philadelphia on April 13, 1861, Joseph Gibbons said: "In our German Upper Leacock where they used to throw stones at me & desire to expel me from the township I am invited to speak on the 'State of the nation' on next