Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-14
IN MEMORlAM.
The Twentieth Anniversary Of Lin
coins Death.
The Exercises At Turner Hall, Last
E~vening---A Very Large Au-
dienoe Present---Ihe
Addresses.

Turner Hall was crowded, last evening,
with an audience largely made up oil our
German citizens, drawn thither to 'ilsten to
The memorial musical exercises to be rem
cered by the joint singing societies OF the
city, and 10 hear the addresses eulogistic OF
the d, ad President to be delivered by Rev.
Uiieit, and Capt. B. B. Doyener. The
members OF the FIVE singing societies, under
whose auspices the affair was gotten up.
Beetb oven, Germania, Arion, Mozart and
Leidertafel-turned out in force, and one
and all acquitted themselves in q manner
creditsble to the occasion and to the city.
The hall had been profusely and tastetully
decor ated with American and German flags,
interpreted with mourning bows of black
libbcn, while in the center of the stage, in
front Of the speakers stand, was placed a
age and b n isome ort:alt Of him IN whose
memory the audience were assembled.
At 8 o'clock the Opera House orchestra
rendered the finale to Macbeth, Verdi, as an
overture, and al the close of the excellently
rendered selection the members OF the Ger.
mania, Beethoven, Mozart and Leidertafel
societies filed upon the stage, and at a sig
nal from the conductor commenced that
grand old song, The Star Spangled Ban
ner," many Of the audience joining in the
singing. AT the conclusion of the song the
societies were heartily ~applauded.
Colonel Jake Nunge then introduced
Rev. Ulfert. pastor of the st. Johns Ger
man Church, who spoke eloquently OF the
martyred President-of his obscure birth,
early struggles, the triumpbs Of his mature
years, and his tragic death. Rev. Ulferts
eulogy was a very able effort, and at its
close the audience, which had listened to
the speaker with the greatest attention,
broke into a storm of applause.
The Beethoven Singing Society sang
Buses song, THE Home" in a manner
which won for them hearty applause, aud
the first part of the programme was ended.
Part two was ushered in by the Opera
House Orchestra playing Clarens' Comedy
overture, and the members of the Germania
Singing Society followed with Might, 0
Night Kucken, the song being loudly ap-
plauded.
Col. Nunge then introduced Hon. B. B.
Doyener, who came forward amid a round
of applause, and said:
GENTLEMEN OF THE UNITED SINGING So
CiETIEs: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-lt is
hardly necessary for me to say that but for
sour kind invitation for me to be present,
and but for that patriotic duty which every
citizen owes ID that man whose memory we
all venerate, / should not be here this
evening. MY voice tells you that.
In all nature, animate and inanimste,
there are figures that in size, greatness and
grandeur stand out pre-eminent and above
all others. The Himalay as tower above and
rise farther into sunlr ght than the highest
peaks of the greatest mountains Of either
ibe Eastern or Westsr I'm Hampshire. The
nodding trees of the forest appear to bend
and pay homage to the giant oak that re-
sists the storms Of a century, lifting its
branches high and broad spread to the
winds of heaven. The flowers of the field
h We their acknowledged queens Of beauty
In the planetary system there is a sun
around which all worlds revolve aud &C.
knowledge as their central figure and only
source OF light. And among men there are
those who rise and tower above the great
majority of their fellows, as far as the heav-
are above the mountains. In all time
and in all nations there have been men who
have been pre-eminent as good and great
men, who have challenged the admiration,
love and respect Of their countrymen, and
who have ever been held in grateful remem-
brance.
Our " country has had its Washington,
who has been Justly called and gratefully
remembered as the father of his country,
and the immortal Lincoln, the child of the
whose memory has become 80 hal.
lowed, may with equal justice be called the
savior of this land OF liberty and equal
rights, whose free air and soil is not breathed
or trod by any serf or slave,-born of hum
BILE but respectable origin in q cabin in
Hardin county, Kentucky, in 1909, upon
what was then our Western frontier, without
the advantages of early education which it
is our blessed priv ilege TO enjoy, BY honesty
character Of which he was such q fitting ex-
and exemplar, he was called by the
from the humblest walks of life to
the legislative halls of his adopted State, to
the halls OF Congress, and finally to be the
Chief Magistrate Of this great nation-the
President Of the United States. How peril.
Gus the time. How the ship Of state was
being tossed upon the angry sea Of dissolu-
ton and threatened with shipwreck when he
the helm with a firm hand and pa
purpose, is so much the undisputed
Of this country that it : is only neces,
sary to be mentioned to recall the dark and
trying hours of 1861, to hear in our imagt.
nation again the first shot from the gun
that fred upon. the nations flag
and Fort Sumpter roar, echo and re.
echo through the land from ocean to ocean
and from the lakes to the gull. 1t is not
purpose to speak Of politics ner in any
manner refer to those principles with which
Dincoln was 80 closely identified and of
which he was the leading exponent. His
tory and time has indicated them aud their
No man ever before assumed q
responsibility with a more patriotic
purpose than when Mr.. Lincoln took the
oath as President OF these United States,
and no man ever more conscIentiously per.
that duty. with malsce toward
none, and charity for all; with f-mness in
The right Of God gives US to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we are in;
bid up the Nations wounds; to care for
who has borne the battle, and for his
and orphans; to do all which may
and cherish a just and lasting peace
among ourselves and with all Nations"
Grsnder sentiments and more patriotic
words than these, tsken from his second
inaugural address, never were uttered by
mani During the long and dreary
years Of toll, anxiety and care, through his
administration of four years, be never for
moment sbrsnk from duty or lost hope
in the grand future of this country and
final termination of that great struggle.
He WAS the grand central figure. His
was shown in his selection of men
10 accomplish the great duty he was
with, in order that the
under God, should have a
new birth CT freedom, and the Government
Of the people, BY the people, for the people,
should not perish from the earth" His
em %ancipa'ion PROCLAMATION vas onlv