The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-15
DIR. lifts LECTURE
The March OF Americanism His
Subject.
He Reviews the History OF the Country Thai
Led TO the Civil War and its
Results

Yesterday was the Twenty-seventh an
niversary of the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln. Thirty-one years ago last Tues
day Fort Sumter was fired upon. The
proximity of these events was made the oc-
casion for an address by Rev. T. G. Lift, at
the Methodist Episcopal church last night
the well known divine taking for his theme
1.-THE March of Americanism" The
speaker was not in good voice and seemed
to labor at times uncomfortably, yet he
was greatly in earnest and his theme was
enc that interested the 200 persons who
were so fortunate as to hear him.
After ''skirting along the coast of events"
from the middle ages TO the present time
the speaker noted the bright events that
eliminated in the settlement and political
and material growth of American history,
ana In all he found the genius of liberty
ever prominent. In the little Dutch repub-
lie, in the person Of William of Orange, in
Oliver Cromwell, the protector, he saw this
preserved and handed down to succeedipg
ages. Two hundred and seventy-two years
ago a government leaped from the deck of
the Mayfower, and we have to-day the
grand result of the problem of self-govern-
ment. From the earliest time the struggle
has been to make man q valued quantity,
world favors using him as a prop for
thrones.
The imbecility of George III furnished
our fathers with the Justification which
caused "the shot to be fired that was heard
around the world;" and the first continen-
tai congress represented
THE VICTORIES OF THE AGES,
for their ancestors had in turn stood for
the cause on many hard fought fields. But
the elimination of the great struggle to
solve the question of self government came
in 1860.
From the earliest of our settlements two
types were developed on this continent,
the puritan and the cavalier, Jamestown
and Plymouth. The effect of a long lease
of power combined with slavery caused
one section to desire to perpetuate It at any
cost, but while liberty was patient the
genius of free labor did not sleep. With the
vast growth OF empire come new and greater
problems and the efforts of statesmen,
scholars and divines could not stop the
crisis of 1861. BY vote of $50 to 303 in
the electoral college, liberty placed power
in the hands OF Abraham Lincoln, and his
genius proved equal to the trust. OF
THE EVENTS OF THE WAR,
the speaker said that he referred to them
only to make plain the ideal march of con-
stltutional government. The results
proved that slavery was wrong and those
who upheld it were guilty of rebellion, and
that Lincoln and his hosts were the true
Americans. A million lives and three
thousand millions of money were lost, but
the question OF states rights and secession
was settled
The war was fought on the tissue that the
freedom of all races must prevail; that this
snail constitute one country under one flag !;
that the republican form of government
shall not perish from the earth.
With the death of Lincoln sectionalism
persisted and the words, with malice
toward none and charity for alp have a
meaning next In Importance to peace on
earth and good will toward man,
As the spirits of the great dead mingle in
the other world they rejoice in the result
And Row as we turn to behold the msgnifi-
cent growth of quarter of century and
contemplate what it will be in the next one
hundred years when we will have 300, 900, =
600 Of people, the question of freedom and
self-government will assume all the greater
Importance. How will they be held or
governed, by despotism or moral force! If
we Will not be governed we must be wise
enough TO control ourselves
We must guard our rights with care.
aud while welcoming all deserving, we
must have a quarantine Of political health.
There is no room here for those who hiss
at the stars and stripes. We must have
but one flag and be Americans without pre-
Tx or suffix. In the public schools lies the
safety of our free institutions and thew
must be guarded with jealous care And
as we hear the laundering tread Of the
coming millions who are to fill these
valleys we eXclaim "Our God is marching
On-Gfter darkness lightu