The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-15
LINCOLN.

Today is the anniversary of the death of
Abraham Lincoln of blessed memory, who
was shot the night of the 14th of April,
1865 and expired about o'clock the morn
ing of the 18th. The finest eulogium of
Lincoln is uttered by the Confederate
General Longstreet, who describes him as
the one man among 100000 who dur
ing the civil war never lost his head, al
ways seemed equal to his responsibility,
and knew his business" Lincoln and
Davis were both Southern born men.
Davis was saturated with the pernicious
political philosophy of Calhoun, while
Lincoln was educated to reverence for the
Union under Henry Clay, to whose broad,
patriotic enunciation of the doctrine of
nationality against the Jefferson and CAL
houn philosophy of state supremacy we
owe the fact that Kentucky, Missouri
and Maryland refused to join the Confed-
eracy, and that Tennessee was divided in
sentiment.
To Daniel Webster is Justly given the
credit of educating the East to the doctrine
of Union and Nationality, but Henry Clay
and Jackson did the same inestimable
service for the border states of the South
and the new states of the West that were
largely colonized from Kentucky and Vir-
ginia. Lincoln was educated into con-
sentative anti-slavery opinions by Henry
Clay. Clay was Virginian by birth; a
Southern man by breeding and education,
and a stakeholder and yet he was so big
and brave man that he never hesitated
to denounce slavery, never apologized for
it, and it was the influence of Clay that
educated the border states of the South
and Indiana and Illinois into sentiment
of devotion to the Union that saved the
nation in 1861.
In the notification crisis of 1882 Claws
compromise saved the neck of Calhoun
from the moose of Jackson; and it was
Clay's compromise in 1850, supported by
Webster, that saved the nation from a
premature war for the Union. The edu-
cation of Clay's speeches for the Union
saved Kentucky and Tennessee from GO
ing wholly over 10 the rebellion. Ken
lucky furnished 5000 men to the Union
army, Tennessee furnished 25, 900 men and
Missouri over 100000 men, and this con-
tribution probably turned the scale in the
rebellion, Suppose Kentucky, Tennessee
and Missouri had been AS unanimous for
rebellion as South Carolina. Alabama and
Mississippi. The South then could have
swept the border states. and the Confeder-
scy would have been a success
Henry Clay educated Kentucky. Tennes-
zee, Missouri, Southern Indiana, Ohio and
Illinois 10 fervent devotion to the Union.
and his influence was more potent in this
respect than Webster's. because Webster's
logic merely entrenched the North behind
their old opinion, while Clay's eloquence
divided the South and fastened the border
states to the dag by hooks of steel. Had
Virginia, kentucky, Maryland. Delaware
and Missouri acted as promptly for re-
bellion as South Carolina, Washington
would have been captured, and the line of
the Potomac and the Ohio would have
passed into the possession of the enemy.
st. Louis, Cairo, Louisville. Memphis and
Baltimore would have been citadels of
rebellion.
The education 10 Union and national
isy given by Henry Clay to the border
states bore fruit IN Southern Unionists
from the border states, like Holt, Critten-
den, Prentice, Generals Thomas, Hunter.
Reno, Davidson. Currsn Pore. \. +.
Buford. Burbridge, Rousseau, Thomas ].
Wood, Ord Candy, Sykes, French. Bavard.
Jackson, Terrill, Nelson, Emory. Hurl-
but, Buchanan. Sturgis. Mckenzie. and
gave 10 our navy such men as Farragut.
Dupont and Drayton. 1t was due 10 the
education that Henry Clay gave Ken
sncky and other non-seoeding border
states that they refuses 70 leave the
Union. Lincoln ".-'an' * born. and
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print on their backs. Nereoioed his pas
field. Eugland; Whitehe Union. the
Liverpool, England; ohithat Clay always
Sydney, New South ore frankness than
hampton, Quebec. Aoest DAYS.
lie ana and these Sc m Ted as conservative
mart in his trial. rsd come over from the
two felt ones, suctry Clay Wings of the
Melbourne. VIII he had scarcely been
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