Address of President Roosevelt on the occasion of the Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln [Illustration] Hodgenville, Ky. February 12, 1909 We have met here to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the two greatest Americans; of one of the two or three greatest men of the nineteenth century; of one of the greatest men in the world’s history. This rail splitter, this boy who passed his ungainly youth in the dire poverty of the poorest of the frontier folk, whose rise was by weary and painful labor, lived to lead his people through the burning flames of a struggle from which the nation emerged, purified as by fire, born anew to a lofti…
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