Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln the Democrat: An Address, Delivered Before the Texas Society of the City of New York, Lincoln's Birthday, February 12th, 1920

Buckle's History of Civilization says that climate, soil and food, determine the character of every man. Let us apply these tests to a history Of America, and bring that history down to Lincoln, to see what sort Of a man he was, and why he was the man he was.

In the study of the events that preceded his taking the Presi deney, we shall see how not only politics, but selfishness and self-interest had combined to bring about the embarrassment's that beset him, forces indeed that began with time itself, and, with the inevitableness Of fate, culminated in the most sangui nary and bitter struggle up to that time, in which Lincoln was to play the master part.

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