Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-05-22
4 Lesson In Patriotism.
President IIarrison's speech Mt the Tomb
Of Lincoln.

President HarrisOn's speech Mt the Tomb
Of Lincoln.
The interest of this journey eliminates
today, as we stand here for few moments
about the tomb of Lincoln As passed
through the southern states and noticed
those great centres of industry which have
been built since the war, as | saw how the
furnaces had kindled where there was only
solitude, could not then but think and
say it was the hand that now lies beneath
these stones that kindled and inspired all
that we behold; all these fires of industry
were lighted at the funeral pyre of slavery.
The proclamation of Abraham Lincoln can
be read on all these mountain sides. where
free men are now bending their energies to
the development of states that have been
long under the paralysis of human slavery.
come today to this consecrated and sacred
spot with heart filled with emotions of
gratitude that God, who wisely turned
toward our eastern shores body of God
fearing and liberty-lovng men to found
this republic. did not fail to find for us. in
the hour of our extremity, one who was
competent to lead the hearts and Sympa-
thies and hold up the courage of our poo
pie in the time of our greatest national
peril.
The life of Abraham Lincoln teaches
more useful lessons than any other charac-
ter in American history. Washington
stands remote from us. We think of him
as dignified and as reserved, but we think
of Lincoln as one whose tender touch the
children, the poor, all classes of our people.
felt as their friend and loved so the love
of our people is drawn to him because he
had such great heart, such human
heart. The asperties and hardships of his
early life did not dull but broadened and
enlivened his sympathies. That sense of
justice, that love of human liberty which
dominated all his life, is another character
istic that our people will always love. You
have here in keeping most precious trust.
Toward this spot the feet of the reverent
patriots of the years to come will bend their
way as the story of Lincoln'S life is read.
His virtues will mold and inspire many
lives. have studied it and been filled
with wonder and admiration. His life was
| an American product: no other soil could
have produced it, The greatness of it has
not yet been fully discovered or measured.
As the inner history of the times in
which he lived is written, we find how
his great mind turned and moved in time
of peril and delicacy the affairs of our
country in their home and foreign relations
with that marvellous tact, with that never
failing common sense, which characterized
this man of the people.
That impressive lesson we have here this
morning. see in the military uniforms
of our country standing guard about this
tomb the sons of a race that had been con
demned to slavery and was emancipated by
his immortal proclamation. How appro-
| pirate it is that those whose civil rights
were curtailed, even in this state, are now
the trusted affectionate guards of the tomb
| in which he sleeps We will all again and
again read the story of Lincoln's life and
| will find our hearts and minds enlarged,
our lives and charities broadened and our
| devotion to the constitution, the flag and
the free government which he preserved to
us intensified.