Showing posts with label Presidents Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Presidents Day. Show all posts

Friday, September 22, 2017

The Life of President George Washington

Gilbert Stuart's unfinished 1796 painting of
 George Washington is also known as  
The Athenaeum, his most celebrated
 and famous work.
       George Washington(1732-1799), an American soldier and statesman, the hero of American independence, and the first President of the nation which he helped to establish. There are two Americans of the generations now past who have won the undying love and reverence of their countrymen - Washington and Lincoln.
       Though they are equally honored, the one as founder and the other as preserver of the American nation, they are thought of as totally different types. Lincoln, so much nearer our own time, is by far the more human figure. His humanity, his rugged appearance, his humor and his kindliness are remembered as the characteristics of a very real man. Washington is more or less of a mythical personage. The idealized portrait painted by Charles Stuart, reproduced right, is in a way symbolic of the impression that Americans cherish of the "Father of His Country." He seems to them a lofty figure somewhat detached from everyday life; a great man, but one aloof from his fellowmen; a strong man, but without fire and vigor. The complete record of his life refutes these ideas. There is every reason to believe that if he were alive to-day he would be a virile and influential figure in American political affairs, a personality as vivid as in his own time. 
Artifacts About President George Washington:
  1. Questions and Answers About George Washington
  2. President Washington's Receptions
  3. Farewell, Address To His Officers
  4. Tribute To Washington
  5. Ode For Washington's Birthday
  6. Washington's Birthday by William Cullen Bryant
  7. Welcome to Lafayette by Edward Everett
  8. The Twenty-Second of February by Webster
  9. True Heroism
  10. Under The Washington Elm, Cambridge
  11. Provocation: Abraham Lincoln and Cabin Building
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Our Presidents

OUR PRESIDENTS
(To the tune of "Yankee Doodle.")

George Washington is number one,
With whom begins the story;
John Adams then doth follow on
To share him in the glory.
Thomas Jefferson comes next,
A good old man was he.
James Madison is number four.
Twice President to be.

Chorus:
Our Presidents, hurrah! hurrah!
We'll give them three times three,
And may their memories ever live
In our hearts so brave and free.

Dear James Monroe was next in line.
Twice also did he rule us,
John Quincey Adams served us next.
And not once did he fool us.
Then Andrew Jackson came along,
So famous as a soldier,
Martin Van Buren took his place
To act as office holder.

And William Henry Harrison
Came next in the procession.
He died, and then John Tyler came,
Of the chair to take possession.
James K. Polk is on the roll,
He was an upright man.
Zachary Taylor followed him,
A dozen now we scan.

Millard Fillmore then was called
To rule o'er all our nation:
And after him one Franklin Pierce
Was called to fill the station.
James Buchanan was the next
Our President to be;
Then came Abe Lincoln, brave and true,
A mighty man was he.

Andrew Johnson's name is next
In the song which we are singing;
Then comes the name of U. S. Grant,
Let's set the rafters ringing;
And now we've got to R. B. Hayes,
The nineteenth name of all;
And James A. Garfield is the next
To answer to the call.

Chester Allen Arthur then
Comes forth to take his place;
And Grover Cleveland follows him.
The next one in the race.
Harrison in eighty-eight
Was called to fill the chair.
And Cleveland then again was called
To rule our Country fair.

Thursday, September 21, 2017

The Life of President Abraham Lincoln

"That this nation, under God, shall have a
new birth of freedom, and that govern-
ment of the people, by the people, for
the people, shall not parish from the earth."
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
clip art from Christian Clip Art Review
        Lincoln, ling'kun, Abra- ham (1809-1865), the sixteenth President of the United States, and one of the best loved of American statesmen. Today his countrymen honor him as the man who saved the American republic from disunion, and gave the black man his freedom. More than this, he stands as the supreme type of the democratic statesman, and the ideals which he expressed by voice and in his daily life are treasured as the greatest spiritual possessions of the American nation. By birth and by training Lincoln was in a literal sense a man of the common people. Born in a log cabin and with his entire schooling covering not more than a year, he could make no claim to aristocratic blood, to scholarship or to social prestige. He was what he was by virtue of inborn greatness. 
Artifacts About President Abraham Lincoln:
  1. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
  2. Lincoln (poem)
  3. Abraham Lincoln by James Russel Lowell
  4. Questions and Answers About Lincoln
  5. Lincoln's Birthday by Ida Vose Woodbury
  6. Sayings About Lincoln
  7. Lincoln by Nancy Byrd Turner
  8. Emancipation Proclamation
  9. Provocation: Abraham Lincoln and Cabin Building
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