The world has never produced a man who is destined to receive the execrations of mankind and to merit the lash of the satirist, in a larger measure than ABRAHAM LINCOLN, first the low baffoon, and next the bloody tyrant. This man is, like all tyrants, weak of will and of a miserably contracted intellect. This weakness of resolution makes him the tool of the bolder and bloodier men that surround him. Having no clear views of statesmanship, and having devoted his mind and soul to dogma, he has surrendered himself as the read, victim of cruel counsellors, and of the vindictive party leaders who control his conduct. Day by day he issues some new decree by which constitutional liberty is crushed out and the way prepared for absolute despotism.