The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-12
TELEGRAPH-PH ADEPIA MONDAY FEBRUARY r. 1896


traced his lineage to the time of the Condueror;
Lincoln went back only TO his grand ather.
Palmerston received his education from the best
scholars of Harrow, Edinburgh and Cambridge;
Dincoln's early teachers were the silent forest
The prairie, the river. and the stars Palmerston
was In public life for sixty years; Lincoln for
but tenth of that time Palmerston was
sklltul guide of an established arstocracy; Lin
coin leader or rather companion of the peo-
pie. Palmerston was exclusively an Englshman,
and made his boast in the House of Com.
mons that the interest of England was his
shibboleth; Lincoln thought always of man
kind as well as his own country and served
human nature itself. Palmersion, from his
narrowness as an Englishmau, did not endear
his country to any one court or to any one
people, but rather caused uneasTness and dis
like; Lincoln left America more beloved than
ever by all the peoples of Europe. Palmerston
was self-possessed and adroit in reconciling the
conflicting claims of the factions of the aristo-
cracy; Lincoln, frank andTIngenuous, knew how
to poise himself upon the conflicting opinions of
the people. Palmerston was capable of inso-
lence towards the weak, quick to the sense OF
honor, not heedful of right; Lincoln rejected
counsel given only as a matter of policy, and
was not capable OF being wilfully unjust. Pal
merston, essentially superficial, delighted in
banter, and knew how to divert grave opposi-
ton by playful levity; Lincoln was man of
infinite Jest on his lips, with saddest earnest
ness at his heart. Palmerston was a fair re.
preventative OF the aristocratic liberaltty of
science of humanity, but the House OF Com
mons; Lincoln took to heart the eternal truths
OF liberty obeyed them as the commands
OF providence, and accepted the human
merston did nothing that will endure;
his great achievement, the separation of
Belgium, placed that little kingdom where it
must gravitate to France; Lincoln finished a
WORK which all time cannot overthrow. Palmer
ston is shining example of the ablest of culti-
waited arlstocracy; Lincoln shows the genuine
. fruits OF institutions where the laboring man
shares and assists to form the great ideas and
designs of his country. PalmerstOn was buried
III Westminster Abbey by the order of his Queen,
and was followed by the British aristocracy to
his grave. which after few years will hardly be
noticed by the side of the graves of Fox and
Chatham; Lincoln was followed by the sorrog
OF his country across the continent to his resting
place in the heart of the Mississippi valley, to be
remembered through all time by his countrymen,
and by all the peoples of the world,
CONCLUSION.
As the sum of all, the hand of Lincoln raised
the flag; the American people was the hero of
the war; and therefore the result is q new of
republicanism. The disturbances in the coun-
try grew not out of anything republican, but out
of slavery, which is part of the system of here
ditary wrong; and the expulsion of this domestic
anomaly opens to the renovated nation a career
OF unthought-of dignity and glory. Henceiorth
our country has moral unity as the land OF
free labor. The party for slavery and tbe party
against slavery are no more, and are merged
in the party OF union and freedom. The States
which would have left us are not brought back
as conquered States, for then we should mold
them only so long as that conquest could be
maintained; they come to their rightiul place
under the Constitution as original, necessary,
and inseparable members of the State.
We build monuments to the dead, but no
monuments OF victory. We respect the example
OF the Romans, who never even in conquered
lands, raised emblems of triumph And our
generals not to be classed in the herd of vul
gar conquerors but are of the school OF Timo-
leon, and William of Orange and Washington
They have used the sword only to give peace to
their country and lore her to her place in the
great assembly of the nations. Our meeting
closes in hope, now that people begins to live
according to the laws of reason, and republican
ism is intrenched in a continent.
During the delivery of the Grafton, prominent
! among the foreign ministers in the diplomatic
gallery was Sir Frederick Bruce, of England,
accompanied by Hon. Thomas Howell Thurlow,
private secretary, and several ladies. The Mar
| quis de Montholon appeared in his place with
| M. lie Comte de Taverney. The following were
also present:-Baron Stoeckl, Russian Minister;
Senior Don Gabriel Garcia Tassara Spanish
Envoy; Baron Won ZerolG, OF Prussia; Baron
| Welterstedt, of Sweden Colonel de Raaslof,
| Denmark; Count Wydenbruck, Austria; Senor
Romero and others.