St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16
LOGAN ON LINCOLN.
Black Jack Delivers an Address Upon His
lllustrious Predecessor.
Memorial Services at the Illinois Cap
ital--Regrets from Cleveland.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April 15.-Owing to
the very mpropitious weather the Lincoln
memorial services were not attended by
nearly so large a concourse of people as was
expected Arrangements had been made
for a large number of people, but they did
not come. All the surrounding towns and
cities, however, were fairly well repre-
scented. Rain poured necessarily all day
and the original program of marching out
to the cemetery had to be abandoned. The
services were held in the state house. The
program consisted of music by various
bands,
SPEECH OF WELCOME
by Gov. Oglesby and addresses by Senator
Logan, Gen. Sherman and others. Letters
of regret were read from President Cleye-
land, Ex-President Arthur, Robert Lincoln
and EX-President Hayes. The committee
on decorations, accompanied by band of
music, went out to the cemetery and de-
posted floral tribute upon LincOln's grave
This was all that was done at the cemetery.
In his address to-day in honor OF Abra-
ham Lincoln, Gen. Logan said: ''On the
18th day of February, Seventy-siX years
ago, in the midst of the hardy pioneer peO-
pie OF Harding county, Kentucky, a son
called Abraham was born unto Thomas and
Nancy Lincoln. A few years later this son
is found with his parents in Indiana,
where he
LABORED AT FARM WORK
assisting his father. There was no OppOr-
| tunity offered him for receiving education.
Under the guidance of his mother, how
ever, he was taught to read and write. He
was of studious habits and carefully read
all the books he could borrow from his
neighbors. All that L am or hope to be-
he said, I owe to my angel mother In
his 21st year he is located i'll Illinois
doing manual labor, though at times
when he could do so, he was always found
with book in hand storing his mind with
useful knowledge. He was a constant
reader of the Bible, as well as Shakespeare's
works, and from these acquired better the
understanding of human action and that
which influences the minds of men than all
those which criticised him as an uneducated
man ever had the capacity to understand
In his great debate with the lamented
Stephen A. Douglas he displayed such
WONDERFUL ABILITY
as to at once give him national reputation.
His great mind seemed to unfold to his
auditors the danger after danger that then
menaced our beloved country. He fore
| Swallowed disaster and suggested the way to
| avoid it. He exhibited clearly to the peo-
| pie that if the destruction of this union
must come we ourselves must be the author
| and finiSher. His arguments were convinc-
| ing, his deductions and logic were
irresistible" After dwelling upon the mar
tyred presidents kindness of heart and love
for humanity, the speaker continued:
| ''When elected president of the United
States he entered upon the duties of that
office with malice towards none, with char
! ity for ALL and although the circumstances
| were of the most trying character that had
ever surrounded any man in undertaking to
| administer the affairs of nation, yet
HE GRAsPED A FIRM HOLD
on the helm of the ship of state and moved
on calmly and coolly in the performance of
| the arduOuS duties assigned him."
Finishing his review of Lincoln,s career
Gen. Logan said: Twenty years ago to-day,
early in his second term and just as his
proud anticipationS and fondest hopes
were being realized he fell
at the hands of an assassin martyr to he
cause Of human freedom. AS the tallest
oak in the forest falls causing the earth to
tremble at the shock, so his fall caused the
nation to tremble. Stalwart men cried
aloud and wept, women wrung their hands
and
| APPEALED TO HEAVEN
to know why this great wrong should have
been permitted. At this the people mourned
and would not be comforted.
All civilized countries were saddened
Deep gloom covered the whole land and in
grief and sorrow we mourn him still"
After touching again upon Lincoln's strug
giles with poverty and his final attainment
of the highest position among men, the
speaker closed his address in the following
words: His great heart and mind were
directed in the line of doing
good to his fellow man. Entirely
absorbed by this thought in favor of strug
CLING humanity, he had no time to devote
to the accumulation of wealth. The
benefits showered upon the oppressed man
by his great ability and kind heart by far
Outreached those which could have been ac-
| complished by the
RICHES OF CREsUs.
| Wealth revels behind, while poverty fol-
lows us to the grave, but the wealth that
leaves its lasting impress upon man
kind is that store of kindness
which fills the human breast, and the great
resources of the giant intellect whose
thoughts and good works live on through
time. so let it be with Abraham Lincoln.
He assembled to the topmost round Of the
ladder of fame and from thence stepped
into the mansion on high, prepared for the
good and true. If we could but
see him as his sainted spirit stands to-day,
not in the blood besmeared temple Of hui
man bondage, but radiant with the light Of
liberty and glory, God playing around him,
with shattered letters and broken chains at
his feet, we would behold one Of the
noblest spirits that ever passed through the
pearly gates of New Jerusalem into the
presence of the great White Throne our
Heavenly Father -