The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-14

,7.r.srEAD SPEAKS IT a NATAL
DAY BANQUET.

DAY BANQUET
rne spread Given by the Ohio Repub-
rcan League at Columbus - The
sneech Made in Response to the
roast to the Press-Some Of the Dead
Presidents Writings.
COLUMBUS, O., Feb. l3.-The first ban
vet in honor of the anniversary of Presi
Ant Lincoln's birthday was given in Wells
POST Hall here tonight by the Ohio Repub-
loan League The number of tickets was
I'M ed to $50 and the committee scanned
closely the list, so that the attendance was
very select, representing the best and most
rroninent elements of the Republican party
u all parts of the State. Among the
,uests and orators We're such we'll
trown meu as Senator Sherman, Gov.
voraker. Gov. Luce, of Michigan; Gov.
peaver. of Pennsylvania; eX-Gov. Foster,
NJ Ohio; Hon. James z. Foster, of New
York: congressman butterworth and
Thompson Of Ohio; Murat Halsted, Gen.
u H. Gibson, Judge William II. West,
Gan James s. Robinson, Prof. Scarborough
of Wilberforce University, and most of
tbe Leading Republicans in active party
.ervice in the State. Before the banquet,
which began at o'clock, an informal re-
hon Daniel J. Ryan, of Portsmouth, Presi-
dent of the Ohio League, delivered the adj
dress OF welcome.
MURAT HALSTEAD'S SPEECH.
Nurat Hastead made the response to the
following toast:
can fail: without it. nothing can succeed Con
Sea,Ientlv he who rnolds public Sentimen. goes
deaper than he who enacts statutes or pro-
ponuces decisions. He makes statutes and de-
cis;ous possible or impossible to be executed. -
lincoln ia Joint debate with Douglas, Ottowa,
nj AUG a. 1853 Response oy Alurat Halstead
Tsq editor Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Mn CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN Abra-
ham Lincoln was a young man appealing to the
sSs'd k' .,.,.-..-.. ,,.,,,.,, ,a, ,.,,.., j,
have snOken as have thought, | may be wrong
as to any or all of them; but holding IL a sound
decision that it is better only sometimes 20 be
right than AT all times wrong, SO soon as dls-
cover my opinions to be erroneous, l shall be
ready to renOunce them.
An older man with the greater part of life be
hind him would have told, with concern but
without confusion the tale of error without
wrong intention, and remuneration that meant
advancement to higher ground for frmer foot
steps in the straight way of the righteousness
that exaltS people.
We may lnferthat if Mr.. Lincoln had been an
editor instead of lawyer if he had been of
the press instead of President, and if for many
years he had spent the long nights in writing
| be thought of all subjects of current interest,
had appeared each morning a printed sheet
upon which was unchangeably recorded his can
did expressions of opinion. there would have been
many mistakes acknowledged as to men and
measures, many regrets confessed and iudg-
1nents reversed, misgyings as to labors personal
and public INDUCED. All of this in his own Ian
guage. with malice toward none and charity
for all" and that he would safely and reverent
Il have invoked. as upon the act held to be the
| most important Of his life. 1.-The consderate
| Judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of
Almighty God"
LINcoLN's EDITORIALS.
December, 1850, Mr.. Lincoln President-elect,
wrote an editorial paragraph for the Springfield
Journal as follows:
we have such frequent illusions to a sup
posed purpose on the part of Mr.. Lincoln to call
into his Cabinet two or three Southern gentle
men from the parties opposed to him politically
that we are prompted to ask few questions.
First: Is it known that any such gentle
man of character would accept place in the
Cabinet!
second; If yea. on what terms does he sur
render 20 Mr. Lincoln or Mr.. Lincoln to him, all
the political differences between them, or do
they enter upon the administration in epen OPP
position to each other:"
Messrs Hay and Nicolay, the private ~,creta-
RES and historians OF Lincoln say Of TIL; that
the authorship Of the paragraph was not made
public, but happened to be OF those who kl-W
at the time that Lincoln had written the lines
that were as characteristic as they were signiti-
cant. Henry Willard, the distinguished railroad
builder and financier, then the Springfield cor
respondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, sent
NE Jnc copy VI GI0 pdi6SldpAl III NAC hehilN
writing Of Mr.. Lincoln.
I have no purpose of speaking exclusively or
chiefly, or even by preference, of those things
In which it my fortune to be in agreement
with Mr. Lincoln. and in which ] strove to help
him for there is nothing that so fifty becomes a
tribute TO him, or is so precious TO us all as the
truth Of history. OF this it has been remarked
that the truths of history are sacred, like those
Of religion, but it is better TO say that the truths
81 history and religion are the same. Inc de-
tense for untruth is only that as the winds blew
and the water flowed and the light shone, it was
believed to be truth.
Iwell remember Mr. Lincoln's editorial in the
Springfield JOuTHdt-remember reading 1t re-
Ieatedly in the manuscript. which was plain as
print, and in the Journal, with growing sense
OF the deepening trouble i'll the air and tremor
in the earth we had thought solid ground-and
the idea that perhaps it might be inspired by
suggestions that 1 had penned, for was
OF those who knew the absolute good faith
Of Mr. Lincoln's conservatism and hoped that
he might by some extraordinary, even excessive
concession make manifest to Union men OF the
South, as it was to us of the North, the safety
with which the country might repose upon his
saving common sense of justice and respect FOR
law; and that they might thus be strengthened
10 stay the hands of those whose footsteps were
already upon the paths that led TO war
REPUBLICAN srATEsMANsHIP.
Then, as at the beginning of the war and In
every chapter Of it to AppomattoX, and indeed
ever since, and never more than now, Repubii-
can craftsmanship upon which the national life
was suspended, and in which it is vet bound up,
consisted in uniting the North and dividing the
b.AO
VINO read history and not see in
the amazing unity of the Northern
uprising after the bombardment of Fort Sum
Ter, that the genius of craftsmanship was with
The kentuckan who was President of the United
States and not with the other son of that state
who was the President of the Confederate
States
This craftsmanship of Lincoln was not the ex-
PRESTON of artificial accomplishments, but the
inherent sagacity of honest manhood and the
lntnitve prescience of patriotism.
One Of those slow to see in its full proportions
ne serious greatness of Lincoln was Salmon Z;
slase, whom l loved, admired, honored and
followed. Impatient upon time with
Lncoln's long waiting for the ripeness OF public
sentiment to warrant the execution of a policy
mat had been determined, Chase said with
sorrowful concern. 1T has come to thls-ac
cording to Mr.. Lincoln--that it is craftsmanship
70 do nothing" 1t is so, too but that is moi
what Chase then thought. After Lincoln was
gone, the remark was made to the Chief Justice
You differed greatly and often with Mr. Lin
CON, did you not?' "Oh, yes" said Chase, we
qfered with him and got out of patience witt
MN, but'-and his voice took its deep tone OF
emphasis and enotioo.-'I do not know but he
was wiser th@n all of us" And so he was.
hr. Lincoln paragraph In the Republican
paper OF his town, told that there was no peace
though all the m might IL in the