Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 8

Sunday, February 13, 1910, 8 Decatur Celebrates Birthday of '-Abraham--Lincoln TILE DECATUR DAILY -HERALD tion over the admission of California was compromised by enacting thl i 1 1 1 CELEBRATION By G. 1 1 SUCCESS later by the Kansas-Nebrasba bin aJJ the Dred Scott decision, which, con. bined. led to the formation of a new political party, which elected Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency six ytJ? later. "Mr.

Lincoln was not. as some rud pose, an abolitionist. He was not tn sympathy with the radicals who com. posed that political party at anv time! They annoyed him greatly while was President. When a member nt Many Tell Stories of Abraham Lincoln at Birthday Anniversary.

TWO WOMEN SPEAK Interesting Papers Read by Four Veterans Judge Nelson Talks. the Illinois house ot representatives he and Dan Stone, of Sangamon county, when the majority in that body passed a series of pro-slaverv resolutions, prepared and caused to be spread upon the house journal i protest in which the following para, graph appears: "They believe that the institution of slavery is founded upon both injustice and bad policy-but that the promulgation, of abolition doctrines tends rather-to Increase than abate its evils." With his party he opposed the extension of slavery and opposed Radical interference with it in states where it existed. He be- lieved that Congress had the power and should abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. In elucidating these principles he was the master ot the hour. The most brilliant states, man of that day paled before his In.

vulnerable logic. As a test of the truth of this statement every young man in this audience should read his Cooper Institute speech, read it tomorrow, it is good religion and contV demnation will not be meted out to you on account of the day. He carried these convictions with him to the White House and in his inaugural ad-dress assured the South that on the question of slavery he would not The Grand Army hall was filled last beyond them. Ills Environments. "Abraham Lincoln entered upon the office of President of the I'nited States with more disheartening environments than lell to the lot of all his predecessors.

Already seven states had seceded from the union and had organized a so-called government and placed a president at lt head. The government was without night with men and women who came to take part in and hear the Lincoln Day exercises under the auspices of Dunham Post. H. J. Tarnell.

patriotic Instructor of the Post, was the presiding officer. During the evening there was phonograph music, Dr. Elmer Martin having installed his machine in the post hall for that purpose. All of the selections were patriotic, and occasionally the "vets" became so enthused" that they joined in the chorus with the voice from the phonograph. The invocation was by Rev.

N. S. Haynes. There were several papers prepared for the occasion i and several persons responded to the call of Chairman Yarnell to tell of some experience with Lincoln. Cyrus M.

Imboden read a paper which will be found under a separate head. Rev. N. S. Haynes related what he knew of Lincoln personally.

When he was a lad of IS residing in Eureka. Abraham Lincoln and a man named Hogg came to Eureka to deliver political address. Mr. Hogg spoke first. He interspersed a bit of humor and the audience was fairly responsive.

Like a Minlxter. When Lincoln arose to speak his appearance then and during all of the time 'that he talked was that of a minister, who was duly impressed with the seriousness of his calling. There wore no jokes. He seemed a prophet in Israel. Rev.

Mr. Haynes said that he could not recall what was said, but he knew from his study of history in the years that have elapsed that the address was concerning the Kansas-Nebraska bill, which had been passed by congress with the aid of Stephen A. Douglas, a money and without credit. It was without arms and war-was probable Beset by radicals on the one hand and peace at any price advocates, like Horace Greely, and the enmity of one wing of a great political party on the other, he was left to rely upon his own Judgment, his own initiative and honesty of purpose. Like Elijah on Hored he heard the great strong wind.

the rumbling earthquake and the roar of lire, but he saw no promise in them. The still small voice annealed to him. It seemed greater than tne roar of the radical, whose only motive was to crush; more potent than the cringing wail of the coward and he accepted it as his guide when he announced the precept: 'With malice toward none and charity for this charity running throurh his inaugural address he talked to the Southern states as a friend and brother. He told them there would be no war unless they themselves became the aggressors. In closing this ai.

dress he offered a brothers hand I. the words: I am loath to close. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion measure opening all or the great western country to human slavery.

Abraham Lincoln at that time understood what no other man apparently understood, that lie was laying the foundations for a great political party. That was no joke. It was serious business and was so treated in the address. No one then dreamed, apparently, of the majestic character which stood before them, a character trained by the providence of God for the E-reat mission before him. He may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

The offer was reiecterl am. rrnel years of deadly, destructive war. but through it all Abraham Lincoln stood unuouoting and unmoved. Bv his wisdom he surmounted every diffi was without doubt one of the most culty both at home and from abroad. divine men that ever trod the shores During the conflict he never uttered single offensive word asainst those who were at war with the federal government and at last glorious and lasting peace came.

All the ouesiinns of time. Reads Poem. In closing. Rev. Mr.

Haynes read these linos on Lincoln by J. F. Williams: Thu martyr lives! O'er such death has no power; The thorny crowd becomes fadeless wreath. that had vexed and divided the Nortn and South, were settled forever and the government thus unshackled broke forth into a new glory and has gone on until it is today the marvel of the powers of the earth. It waj The pain and ashes of the fatal hour the hand of Lincoln.

Are but the passing throes of passin death. Realize He AVas Right. "As we realize now that Abraham The nation wept and still the dews of i-incoin was right: as we recocnize igmze mat ins motives were as pure as is the I purest i water winch bubbles from the pu pring; that he was for the ucodU and never misled them and was great in sense, it is almost impossible to realize that through the prejudices aroused by demagogues and radicals who misrepresented him no one who ever occupied the Presidency was love Distills on eyes which never saw his face. For so the law of asos still doth prove No life is lost, for the race. Then love's devotion to his memory! Peace to his ashes; to his spirit rest! To his fair name, earth's immortality! To him who dies for men, God's very best.

Called on for personal recollections of Abraham Lincoln YV. K. Calhoun said wlu-n he was young as a soldier President Lincoln and several others came to the camp in a carriage. At the time the soldier was on guard more bitterly assailed than he. By some he was represented as singularly selfish and dishonest; by others a enjoying the revelry of blood on the battle field; by others as a tyrant and THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR usurper and by others as stubborn and guilty of all these charges.

This abuse, circulated by an unfriendly press, persisted in after the manner I brutes, produced his assassin, just ne was Known to nave said during that liim again in Rushville. At that time visit were: 'Xo man should doubt that 1 Lincoln was delivering a political God is the moral governor, creator and tpeecn, and when some rowdies outsido ABRAHAM LINCOLN, A MAN IN as the same methods have since produced assassins for Garfield and Mc-Kinley, and which, if the present follow, to get it in your mind as he saw it. He was a deep thinker. He never hurried. His State Papers.

"It is related that in writing his preserver 01 me universe, ana no man interrupted him and some persons were should ever engage in an undertak course is persisted in. will produce iEW assassin for Taft. Only a few days ahout to leave the hall he told them WHOM THERE WAS NO GUILE mg in which he cannot imolore the to stay for the fellows who were out go one of our own citizens, who his slate paDers he wnni.i a assistance of divine providence." side making a noise did not have the while tears filled his eyes Lincoln was heard to say during that visit in might resolve to try, go on for a time. write a few lines and then put away the wor that lie mis-ht hawe The following paper on "Abraham Lincoln" was read at Crr celebration courage to fight if they had an op portunity. Saw Lincoln Often.

permitted himself to be wrought upon by those wio are engaged in misrepresenting the motives of the President and other leaders, declared to me that the proper thing to do was to go to Washington and kill them, as was January 1861: "Alabama says she has seceded and secession pressed, may for further consideration. It is a great pleasure to have hear. of Dunham post last night by W. Calhoun: men jive up in despair; some, perhaps the larger number, would yield to the allurements of pleasure rather than sacrifice them for the better and more enduring things of life, while others would curse their lot. blame G.

W. Greaves of Moweaqua served with a Rhode Island regiment during the war and during, his service in and mean war. But if war comes I shall have no hand in bringing it beyond doing my duty before God, as I understand it to be." of Illinois, by choice, remember, and not as some others who were born here because they couldn't hoi t. During the assembling of the diSciDles it wa sl.l nf V.th.l.i- near Washington saw the President 'Behold an Israelite, indeed, in whom many times. He recalled especially gratifying to be able to take part in He was further quoted as having -nc government and the more fortunate lor their lis IIO tTUlie.

TOni.hr We said-at that time: "The tariff qucs-i after the arrivaI of ths regiment the anniversary of the birth of Abra- forward and become the enemies of occasion joining in doing to the memory of Lincoln. He was a Whig. I W3.S a. Ipmnn rrii. nam iincoin.

Arter an unbiased study tlon is necessarily as durable as the I uwy were marcn. government a question of national the hlte IIouse where the Pres-VmiispVoonini- ia tn i-nu made a short talk, and thank- oi tus character for half a century e.u eminent ana the friends of anarchy. What Abraham Lincoln did for himself should be the model for duty, and wnen relieved aim that the president was in camp, he went forward to a place where he could get a view of the distinguished guests. The thing thut most impressed him that there was- a hole in the hoe on Lincoln's left foot. Another time Lincoln on horseback acompanied by General Purnsides, a magnificent horseman and cut a sorry figure by Comparison.

Still another when the Pennsylvania regiment of which the speaker was a member, brought BOtne prisoners from rickett's division into camp. President Lincoln was there and when the regiment was relieved he walked along the line and shook hands with every man and had a word of greeting for each individual. Never Loquacious Daniel Braxton Turney related that when he was a boy about 12 years of age. after Uncoin had been elected president, but before he was inaugurated, he" came to the Turney home near Fairfield, 111., and stayed there for four weeks. At that time, of course he saw the president-elect with the eyes of a boy.

unable to discern wherein he was great. He was neither taciturn nor loquacious. No one ever told a story, but that Lincoln had ine to match it. but nothing of what he said revealed either levity or frivolity. He had a clear voice and a ad face and penetrating eyes of grayish blue.

He could repeat all of Aesop's fables, and was heard to say i.o nunu proclaims mm an American indeed in whom was nn n-tiii what replenishing the family meal tub ed Sv'ernor of Rhode Island, who is to the family." as Present- for having sent such a -imerican youth. separated us just a little. I agreed with him on many points. I did not want to fight, with the Ohio river as the boundary of this republic I wa, ready to fif.hr if 1 1 1 was along every avenue leading up to the car. yiuces in numan nature no f.in' iino me service.

Alter Two Women Speak battle of Antietam. Lincoln made When those women, who had seen an address to the- soldier an criui.iii.iuii ever masreten inis celebration is under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic. It is the purpose of this paper to deal mostly with Mr. Lin- once done in France. Human nature is the same as it was 1S0O years afro, unless perhaps it is easier now than it was then to put the thoughtless or the radical In a frame of mind to feel that assassination is Justifiable and to cry for the release of Barabbas, or" cause a Saul of Tarsus to hold the garments while Stephen Is stoned, fully conscious that God or the country is being served.

It Is Just as important now as it was lDOtf years ago to exhort men to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. Eulogy I'nelean. "It would be useless to attempt a eulogy on Abraham Lincoln. He once said of George Washington: "On that name no eulogy iasexpected. It cannot be.

To add brightness to the un or glory to the lame of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the rtimr close 1 enough, but fortunately they did not lug through the most distressing limitations, privations and ilknirr. Lincoln were asked to stand half a'ed the strusgle to have been the most dozen arose, but only two of them bloody of any known to hlstorv Onm- i. Was ime the other fellow who staved at brima -jt mcnts in earlv childhonri va uuimecwon witn tne Civil war and tho nnlitcnl came forward to tell teir experiences.

1 lade Greaves declared Lincoln to in ed that those rebels were s6 manhood un to the nuaa ill- evltably led up to It. In the period Mrs. Caroline Barnhart of Radford been the Moses ordained by Provi- republic at a time when others sought in me Handling of their guns that tney were likelv to uy mese events President Lincoln and the Grand Army of the Republic fire smu mat tor iour years ADranam Lin- cence to lead the- Americanpeople coin was a member of her grandfath-j through the struggle of the Civil war er's family at New Salem, and at and added that in his opinion Lincoln But you fellows who wear the bronze i vjjiii ciru. Without the federal army he would ana won honors of whreh you are proud, met a fnomar. fcprlngfield.

Her grandfather. J. T. was the greatest figure produced In Radford, had given Lincoln his first all of the history of this or anv mUr our sleel (and there were iiiive lauea. without him the army would have failed.

What he nronosert tile firmv eveente-l law books. Her father and Lincoln country. were 'schoolmates, and to her aunt Judge W. E. Nelson was asked to tell Lincoln had given a metal pencil of something of his personal Lincoln was alwavs kind and consltlerato Tnni.

1. -iiu) me union, Dy his honestv of purpose, his splendid his sublime courage- and unboundea patriotism, he died a martyr without spot or blemish. "Born on the frontier amidst the humblest surroundings, with not a single ray of promise that he might become more than an honest, humble borer. bereft of a sympathetic mother at an age when he was receiving first Imnresulnna -r n. um-ia tne emancipation proclamation effective It retnrei- federal 1.

name and in its naked deathlesa rebels, of course, but he said. 'Don't call them rebels, call them Confederates. They think thev are. a style common at that time, one of tious of Abraham Lincoln, whom he those, affairs so arranged that the lead rad known personally, but not inti- splendor leave it shining So we can fittingly saj- of the name of Un parts of the republic and establish9i when he wanted to remember "I remember T.fncnin Y'cvi me oupremacy or the national government Vnt coin. (jr him wo can only say that the soldier of the union suffered no viu ILilB, OUl the army protected the bonds and the 1.

aiue a mother to direct and encourage Mlm in f- Kt homesickness as he thought of mother; endured no pain and fatigue on the favor that he did for me. A rebel colonel was caotured. He was sick. I asked President Lincoln permit the man to go home to his family, where his wife might take nr. ui me country.

To illustrate: In JulV. 1SS4 couia db aroppea oacK into the bar-; mately. simply as a brother lawyer, rel. when the pencil was not in use. He had seen him frequently in court Mrs.

Barnhart placed the pencil on the 'at Decatur, but had never heard him table for the inspection of all who cared make a speech except when he stood to see it leaning against the old brick court Mrs. Higman said that she had no house which stood in Lincoln Square acquaintance with Lincoln, but when He had. however, heard him in the su-a small girl she was one of a number preme court of Illinois addressing the riding in a political procession before court. Lincoln was a wonderful man long, weary, dusty march; suffereo no pang of hunger while defending Jubal Early threatened uur currency had dropped tO 28 Cents on the 4.ll.-H. Oglesoy and I signed that letter, and the union; suffered no wounds under the old' flag In the storm of battle ana no father and mother suffered of the fall of Atlanta and Sheridan's i.im.oin paroled the sick man YOU COUldn't forCTel a i uincoin.

who occupied a seat on the ue knew something of his character upequan. or Winchester was to advance i t-. anguish over the dear boy who died kindness like that -for you. If Lincoln platform. -j tenia, oneri- uan Success nt i usuie as tne glorlou old Dannei faded from his sight, that did not naa uvea tr.ere would have been no trouble such as was Vn.r something he hitched it to a story.

tnce he was heard at the Turney home to say: A spoken joke soon dies. Unless very good no one cares to remem-ter it. If very good so many would-e wits try to father it that It soon flies of over paternity." Once when a friend sought to argue that the highly gifted were alone immortal, the rresident-elect said "All or none," and then proceeded to argue that everv human spirit Is immortal. His quaint illustrations were impressive, but more than all his deep love for the human race made the lasting impression on those who met htm at that time. During that visit Mr.

Lincoln was heard to say that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were the only ones of the fifty-five signers of the Declaration of Independence to become president, and that fifty veans i r.rz r. in Oc tober, 1864. and Sherman' 17 ur ies or tne Irontler. these limitations, on every hand cruelly whispered in his tender ears-' No hope, no hope. yet.

by his matchless determination and industry he became a scholar without a school-a surveyor without an instructor- a master of law without a university-an Invincible debater without a forum-a statesman without theald of established institutions of culture and an unselfish patriot in spite of the low ebb to which that virtue had fallen at the time he entered the politics of the nation. DlKadvnntacea. "nder such disadvantages how many younr men 1,1 South raised it to 48.3 cents on the OOllar flnd the i lm. reconstruction. He spoke through Grant hen at Appamattoy he told the soldiers to go home with their horses which they would now need for their plows." IIe ii in of Lee caused it to leap In a single iu i a.

i cents ana tne surrender of Johnson a few weeks later almost obliteYated the chasm. personal observation. He was kind hearted, a gentle man. He was kind, like a woman, and always put himself In the other fellow's place. He was a big man.

Big enough to do what he thought was the right thing. That was the distinguishing trait of his char- aCtjl' do what he thought was right: He would listen to reason but he was a hard man to reason out of his opinions, for he was a deep thinker, and he had reasons for his opinions. He illustrated his theory by telling stories never for the sake of telling them, for that was one TelliniT Of the funeral James A. Cochrane said that when he saw Lincoln as a presidential candidate he thought that he was the most awkward man he had ever seen and decided that presidential timber was scarce, else Lincoln had never been nominated for president. Later he came to the decision that it was a wise selection, and since that time he had been thankful many times that the choice had been a wise one.

William Sands of Stonington said that he first law Lincoln at Beards-town, where he appeared in court defending a man named Armstrong Th.t move the noble soul of Abraham Lincoln. His thoughts and praj-ers followed the soldier boys everywhere and to them he was -Father Abraham, their angel of light and their source of devotion to duty. He heard the cry of the weak with the same interest as the appeal of the strong. No argument ever convinced him that th indiscipline of the volunteer army ae-pended upon shooting these shop boys, farmer boys, teachers and clerks for infractions of army regulations, and the appeal of manv a mother. Vl ltn which he and in which te took ludtre NVlson said.

Obacorely Born. It is a matter nf L-i. ir.en we laid awav th mar. Bv.no xuLciesi. mat at the time of the Louisiana purchase out of which grew the controversies courage that Abraham Lincoln had to mme will last as long as the English language is snoken a me civil war.

Abraham Lincoln was hern au makes history. after that declaration it pleased the Almighty to remove them from this action. Among other things an education with the ambition and determination to reach the ranks of the best? There would be few Some would accept their lot wrthofit ciupstl Comrade James srr.i .1. methods of argument, one wav tn f- vvuicij me Nazarine. Ha was 11 years old when the Missouri coanpromise was agreed to.

Ha wan tr.nr was in 1854. Soon after that he saw orlte poem of Lircol "Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" jten a point in the mind of the other sister and even little children brougttt a pardon. I am unable to convey to you the esteem In which Abraham after uperficial consideration; some, 1 iiuncriui in reason and thought when the conten-.