They bowed before the bier of him who had been prophet, priest and king to his people, who had struck the shackles from the slave, who had taught a higher sense of duty to the free men, who had raised the Nation to a loftier conception of faith and hope and charity. --_James G. Blaine_ His was a name so pure, a life so grand, That Lincoln's a magic name throughout the land. --_Jos. C. Sindelar_ In his mentality, he shone in judgment, common sense, consistency, persistence and in knowledge of men. In his words, he was candid and frank, but accurate and concise, speaking sturdy Anglo-Saxon unadorned, powerful in its simplicity and the subdued enthusiasm of earnest thought. In his sentiments, he was kind and patient and brave. No leader ever more completely combined in his personality the graces of gentleness with rugged determination. In his morals, Truth was his star; Honesty the vital air of his living. In his religion, he was faithful as a giant; Providence was his stay; he walked with God. --_Luther Laflin Mills_ His constant thought was his country and how to serve it. --_Charles Sumner_ His career teaches young men that every position of eminence is open before the diligent and worthy. --_Bishop Matthew Simpson_ Such a life and character will be treasured forever as the sacred possession of the American people and of mankind. --_James A. Garfield_ By his fidelity to the True, the Right, the Good, he gained not only favor and applause, but what is better than all, love. --_W. D. Howells_ He was warm-hearted; he was generous; he was magnanimous, he was most truly, as he afterwards said on a memorable occasion, "With malice toward none, with charity for all." --_Alexander H. Stephens_ Let us build with reverent hands to the type of this simple, but sublime life, in which all types are honored. --_Henry W. Grady_ Lincoln was the purest, the most generous, the most magnanimous of men. --_General W. T. Sherman_ His chief object, the ideal to which his whole soul was devoted, was the preservation of the Union. --_Alexander H. Stephens_ O honest face, which all men knew! O tender heart, but known to few! --_R. H. Stoddard_ Who can be what he was to the people, What he was to the State? Shall the ages bring us another As good and as great?