<u>Answer:</u>
Hopeful and optimistic
<u>Explanation:</u>
"The Americans of tomorrow, the America that is every day nearer coming to be, will be too wise, too open-hearted, too friendly-handed, to let the least lastcomer at their gates knock in vain with his gifts unwanted" (Yezierska).
He admired that the rites implied that the deceased will live actively after death.
The adjectives are strong and close
I believe it is referring to slavery as the cruelest crime known to man which resolutes to lincoln