Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-22
LINCOLN MEMORIAL CLUB.

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The Lincoln (colored) Memorial
Club held a highly creditable meet
ing in Cincinnati, on February IL,
the sixty-second anniversary Of
Abraham Lincoln's birth day.
The Cincinnati Commercial, Of
February ID, contains a full report
of the proceedings, but our space
will not permit us to do more than
copy one or two of the speeches; we
submit those of Messrs. T. N. G. Liv-
erpool aud Peter H. Clarke:
5. Kentucky, the native State Of
our hero-She cherishes the rot
ting corpses of Secession and Multi
fcation, holding the sal volatile OF
States Rights to their nostrils. She
refuses to believe them dead, though
the civilized world is holding its
nose because of the stencil. We
pity her hallucination, but after next
November the carcasses must be
buried, whether she be willing or
not"
Response by T. N. c. Liverpool.
After speaking of the early life and
labors of Mr.. Lincoln, Mr.. Liver
pool spoke as follows:
ut was while presiding over the
destinies of this Nation that Abra-
ham Lincoln formed an act which
stands on the pages of history with
out parallel. The issuing of the
Emancipation Proclamation was an
act of justice which challenged the
admiration of the civilized world,
and made jubilant an entire race,
which had suffered the untold mi
series of slavery for more than two
centuries.
"With a view of honoring the
memory of this man, we have as
sembled here tonight. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln thou art resting
now peacefully and happily with
thy Maker; we will ever cherish thy
name, and it will grow brighter and
brighter as it is transmitted from
one generation to the other.
'Mr. President. it is hard for one
to understand how Kentucky, a
State which still cherishes the rot
Ting corpses of secession and nulli-
cation, and is so hostile to the |
Union and equal rights and which
las exhausted every means in her
power to disgrace and reduce to the !
evel of chattels her colored citizens,
IAN be the mother State of one SO
pure, and patriotic, and liberty low
ng as our hero was.
Impressions received in youth
cling to persons through
ife, sand usually influence and guide
hem in most of their acts, but in
his instance they seem to have
,een thrown off before maturity
vas reached, for there is nothing in
lis known acts to indicate the place
f Mr.. Lincoln's birth. His native
tate has not learned yet that a -,
change has taken place ,
q this Government; that its policy ,
enceforward will be equal and ex- .
ct justice to all; that a man shall ,
g known, not by the color of his /;
kin or the texture of his hair, but .
y his deeds and acts.
'"The action of the Kentucky Leg
'lature, granting colored persons 1
ne right to testify in the State r
ourts, strikes some as an evidence r
lat she has thrown off her halluci- j,
alton, and in a spirit of justice is a
illing to conform to the new order f
things. But I am of a different r
pinion. I,
'Her controlling reason, in my
ldgment, was an economical one. b
efore the passage of that bill, as b
,u know, Mr.. President, colored [
ersons who had grievances of any n
agnitude brought suits in the L
nited States Courts, where they ii
e allowed to testify. In a large il
1mber of cases the defendants to ID
lose suits have been greatly an 81
Dyed and their business has suf- a
red immensely by their having to "
nit their homes and travel, in 81