When Lincoln, born in a border state, coming to manhood in the
Northwest, and bred on Webster's doctrine,--"the Union is
paramount",--accepted for the second time the Republican
nomination and platform, he summed up the issues of the war, as
he had done before, in Webster's words. Lincoln, who had grown as
masterly in his choice of words as he had become profound in his
vision of issues, used in 1864 not the more familiar and
rhetorical phrases of the reply to Hayne, but the briefer, more
incisive form, "Liberty and Union", of Webster's "honest,
truth-telling, Union speech" on the 7th of March, 1850.[113]

HERBERT DARLING FOSTER.

[113] Nicolay and Hay, IX. 76.