Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-01-26

| To men. IL was more than Justice. IL was OF
| that higher benevolence, which Is the attri bute
~ DiviBer natures What would the world he
| to-day If human nature could be 50 transfor ed
| that every nan would see his own success ia the
suecess of other men and that as the philosophy
of Mr.. Lincoln, He wished all men well. The
| success OF other mtn was his success. And,
| however, the administration. of which he was
| chief, may have departed from that principle
| Mr.. Lincoln ruTsed no personal animOsities.
| Ihote who differed with him were not neces-
| saiiiy estrangcd from him, nor from the great
cause which he represented. He not only
| great eItent.
| lie remembered tina, the distinguished Repre-
| sentative Of Maryland, Hon. Henry Winter
| Davis, differed with the President upon some
| difficult and delicate questions connected with
tie subject OF reconstructiOn; aud he needed not
say 10 those who RENE mt eTed 50 well the emf
nent abilities OF that deceased orator and states
| man, that when bis dissent % any measure WAS
mat1red and expressed, II was both pointed and
| absolute. Mr.. Lincoln comprehended this fact
OF his great and high character. " Tell him"
| he said to = friend who delivered the message
| faith!ully to him, q Tell Davis 70 come and see
| NE again. Tell him more. Tell him tbs On our
| last argument which was rather violent. do not
| know whether had the advantage OF INN, or
| he had the advantage of me, but at any rate tell
| MN TO come and see me again" The earnest
| ness with which he expressed his view on public
| questions and the tenacity with which lie ad-
hered TO The great measures Of public admins.
| ratioD, which had been imam cur ated hv the gov
| eminent Of which he was the he ad, might fTai-
| cate strong degree of pride OF opinion and.yet
| be MI BanAsl thought he might say, without
= txsggef@""a,, .hes fhere was no apparent pride
| Of opinion with him.
TWAS wise and just that his figure in enduring
mai BILE by the order of the government should
| be placed here in the Capitol 10 remind them in
their day, and their successors in the DAYS that
were to come, OF the virtues Of his character
the success of his career, and OF the principles
| which he advocated, defended, and died in
maintaining. Applause.
| fQQrp no M al M Cd in Iur-
| ing marble at the order OF the government Is
but meet and proper. Mr.. Lincoln rose to emf
hence from the greatest obscurity, and the artist
who has thus so ably contributed TO preserving
forever his revered memory, is also sprung from
| extreme ohscurity; and now You can read upon
her face as wella upon his the earnestness of
| purpose which has brought both TO high and
| enviable fame. The statue is a most faithful
representation of the original. IL is him as he
| lived. IL is him as we knew him. In his life he
mas lett US an immortal example. and his char
acter will forever remain q model for posterity.
| tAIplause
ADDRESS on Mr.. BROOKS
Hon. James Brooks, of New York, spoke as
/ follows
ltwas appropriate that In unwilling a statue
like this q democrat lie given an opportunity to
express for himself and his associates their com
| mon interest both in the man and in the memo
| rial of the man. He who acted so foremost part
| as Mr.. Lincoln in that portion OF our history,
| the most exciting and most perilOus save that OF
our revolutionary era, is entitled not only TO
| such memorial as this, but to have IL placed
| here, under the great dome of the Capitol.
| We have no Parthenon, no Pantheon, no Vati-
can, no Museo Barbonico, no Pinakothek, no
| Westminster Abbey, wherein TO entomb our
| lllustrlous men, or 10 erect statues to their
| honor. Yet the time is coming, nav, I'm part
come, when this rotunda, and the surrounding
halls and grounds will be filled with pictures,
| paintings, frescoes, statuary, bronZes, freiZes
bas-reliefs, and other monuments OF the world .
memorable men. But in the work here that
ats1,f Ia 80.
| only chief magistrate, in the prime of life.
toully shot down, bat the memorial of woman's
handiHork-a woman's plastic art. lApplause.
| The Pa'thepon, the Vatican. the great muse
ulns OF Paris, Berlin, and London, bring ever
TO our eyes the works of some Phidas, or Prax-
iteles OF antiquity, but they show Us marble
monums nts. busfs. nor statues. the finger work
of the fsIrer sen, while here in this rotunda We
now zee the equal rights of woman, IS not at the
ballot box, but in the pencil the chisel, the ar
form divine. -lApplause1
Fortunate man, there sculptured, fortunate
even IN the calamites OF his country Tor in a be-
loved Union, he lived 20 survive them sll,-for-
tun2te in the trying hour of his death. as he was
thus forever consecrated to the Republic by MS
nartyrdom, and immortaiiZed among all man.
| kind,-fortunate too in thus being handed dow n
TO posterity. by woman's love of a noble art.
| lone of the few, the i'm Mort Al name,
That were net born to die Applause. !
Address or SENATOR PATTERSON.
Senator Patterson, OF New Hampshire was
the next spesker. He said il was one OF the
unl0Oked-fOr compensatiOns such rs sometimes
come in the march of events, that we unyeiI
this statue of Lincoln on the very spot where,
with throbbing hearts, We laid the gre at Nsgis-
| trate when dead. Thousands came to mourn
and bless the martyred Statesman beneath the
dome which now echoes to the plaudits with
| which We consecrate his image to an imperish-
able fame. But; in his own memors BILE words,
g We cannot dedicate, We cannot consecrate we
cannot hallow this monument Il Is for IA
the living, rather to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work that he began"
| No monument can increase or pro!ouy the
fame OF Lincoln. His secured greatness adds a
lustre TO the marble which we this day dedic ate
to his memory, and will survive when this work
OF genius itself and this massive pile shall have
crumbled and mingled with the undiStinguish-
able earth. We have 40 Pantheon in which TO
set up the simulseria of our departed statesmen
and heroes, but with mingled pride and graft
tude we decorate the capitol OF the Republic
with the image of her great ruler.
1t is singular felicity that the girl artist
| whose unstudied genius has raised to life again,
our mariyred statesman, is a child OF lat great
West which gave him to the country and
adds the efulgence OF her divine art to the fall
| measure OF glory which he reflected upOn i,s
annals To proi ounce authoritdtiyeIy upon a
work OF art demands something OF the EnowI-
| edge and much of the chaStened taste OF the
| artist himself, but sure / am that this is the
lean, gaunt figure, and these the solemn earnest
features We knew and loved 80 well in those
long years OF hope and fear through which the
nation agonined into its new life OF liberty and
| prosperity The loose and slouchy dress of the
yeoman, which tie President only half Welded
with reluctance amid the fashions of the can't
tsl, has received from the facile hand Of scuip-
minds US Of the great soul that took no thought
amid inc tIionging cares and oppressive sOr-
lows OF the fraternal strife what he should eat,
or what he should drink, or wherewithal he
should be clothed. The benignant face seems
TO drop abenedction upon the proclamation OF
emancipation which he grasps in his hand. A
l mOmanfQrY M sl nf ire,