The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-02-22
Idncoin's birthday.

: NEW YoRE, Feb. l3.-The seven
ty-third birthday of Abraham Lin
G coin was celebrated here and else
/ where throughout the country to
v night. In this city the LincolI
! Club held Il banquet, at which Their
/ were about n hundred present
among the guests being Genera
Grant, Emory A. Storrs, Senate,
Mcdonald, Rev. J. p. Newman, Gov
: ernor Cornell, and others vel
known. General Gran. spoke as
follows
Gentlemen Of he Liacoia Club
II ann sorry you did not listen tc
the suggestion OF my friend, Senator
: Mcdonald, and let Mr.. Storrs speak
Then YOU would have heard some
) thing worthy of the occasion,
worthy OF the man whose birthday
you are here TO celebrate He has
lived longer in Mr.. Llncoln's state
: than | have. and knew him before
did. | never met Mr. Lincoln till
) March, 1864 like the name OF
your club and the object for which
1T was formed like the name of
the club because it bears the name
of the greatest man this country has
ever produced He was better fit
ted, probably, for the time and the
occasion than an, other man in the
country. Although II citizen Of the
state from which he was elected
President, | Fever met him till |
went 10 Washington 10 take com
mand of the armies. | heard of his
anecdotes, and had almost come to
believe that he passed his time in
telling little stories. After | met
him he spent q great deal of time
with me at City Point Hewas full
of anecdotes, bat he always told
them to illustrate a point After
stating case very clearly, then he
would tell his little story to illus
trate it, | will tell you one of these
stories. After the surrender at APP
pomattox, after the giving of all
necessary orders and after ordering
General Meade to march the army
back to the junction of the railways,
| started back to Washington to
stop enlistments and unnecessary
disbursements. | was officially Sup
posed TO be with the army, but in
reality was in Washington. The
President of the Centederacy and
his general government left about
the same time we did Laugh
ter. When they found we were not
still pursuing them. they stopped
running. In Washington | receiv-
ed dispatch from General Meade,
which stated that he had received a
communication from the Governor
of Virginia. asking il he would be
allowed 10 remove the seat of Gov
eminent 'n Danville, and il not. i'll
he and ew friends would be per-
mitted T., leave the country unmo-
Tested [Great laughter A few
minute after | handed the dispatch
to Pre- taident Lincoln. Il am Just
like Patrick McDougherty, Of
Springfield" he said. ''He was
greatly given to drinking whiskey,
but the temperance people got hold
of him and he swore off. He drank
soda water for few days. After
standing it as long as he could, one
day he held his bottle of soda wa
ter behind his back and said, Doc
tor, can't you put drop of brandy
in that unbeknowns to me p" Il
knew then, as we'll as | did after
ward, what answer Mr.. Lincoln
wanted me to make to the request
of the Governor of Virginia" GCon-
tinued applause
Mr.. Storrs also spoke. He said
Abraham Lincoln led the Republi-
can party in its fresh, vigorous bright |
days, when it did not tamper with |
wrong and knew no halfbreed in
its ranks. Cheers and cries of"306." "
1t was party sired by freedom, and
there could be no cross in such |
stock. He concluded by speaking
of George Washington, Abraham !
Lincoln and General Grant as the !
grand trinity standing on glittering
eminenences above the clouds, !
whose achievements will live |
through the ages such as no other
page of history will hold Letters
were then read from ex-Senators
Conkling and Platt, Senators Logan
and Cameron, Edwards Pierrepont |
and others.
Chairman Lawson then introduc-
ed the Rev DR.. J. p. Newman. who
said in part:
Il am proud to belong to that
section of the party known as Stal-
wart. | do so from religious princi-
pie and from intellectual principle.
The names of Washington, Lincoln,
and Grant have been mentioned.
| want to speak OF another name
q name that viii live when the
bronze has melted and the marble
crumbled and the canvas faded
away-a name that will live while
the stars shine--and that name is
Roscoe Conkling. [Cheers for Ros-
coe Conkling.l A majestic model
of 4 mana man OF than Attic elo-
quence, of more than Roman logic !
"a man who can hold up his hand
as Aristides of old did and say there
is no stain of bribe there man
who preferred to go down and out S
IF sight rather than sacrifice prin-
ciple All honor 10 the name of
Roscoe Conkling." More cheer
ng.l
The Dioscopc.