Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-13

AOfanam LlncOln TOT Ine presloency, eA- s. W. Kellogg of Water ! bury. Mr. Kellogg said: 'sThe first time met | Mir. Lincoln was in your city of New Ha- | ven in ore of the most exciting of politi- ! cal contests = With the lamented William A. Buckingham for standard bearer on our side and the idol of democracy, Thomas W. Seymour, on the other, there was the warmesta state campaign we had had in Forty years Mir. Lincoln made his Cooper Union speech in New York, and through the efforts of MT. Sperry, the chairman of the state committee, he was induced to come here and make a speech. We had known of Lincoln by his great de- bate with Douglass, but we were more than charmed with his speech here. A social gathering was held afterwards and had the pleasure of sitting in corner and of discussing the probable presidential candidate. MT. Lincoln was not then much spoken of for the office. Bates of Missouri was thought the most likely candidate from the west. He said to me with perfect candor and sincerity that he thought William H. Seward of New York, the father of the republican party, ought to be by every sentiment of justice nomi- mated for the presidency. I saw MT. Lin coin afterwards. but did not enter into GuAU 6OCldl I0ldtlOuS WltA NA1IA GAhb olO here at New Haven, but learned that he was the man best fitted to carry to suc- cessful close that great struggle for human liberty With only a meager education, believe that no lover will disagree with me in saying that there exists no purer examples of chaste, striking Anglo-Saxon, than his inaugural addresses and address on the opening of the Gettysburg cemetery.
 What a picture it was when he was first inaugurated, his great rival, Stephen A. Douglass, holding his hat, and Chief Jus tiee Fancy administering the oath and, perhaps, two out of three of his audience praying that it might succeed.
 heard his second inaugural. He per ished by the hand of an assassin a few weeks later.
 In the early days of Lincoln's adminis- tration political opinion ran high. The most offensive epithets were cast on the president, but have noticed lately that in democratic conventions the name of Abra- ham Lincoln is cheered. He has come to be regarded with respect by all parties. The time has come that all around the world in every port, (as has been said in 8 recent message to congress) where an American sailor wearing an American uni form and doing no harm will be protected by the American flag. We desire no war, but we will submit to no dishonor from & | second or third or fourth rate power. When I was in congress met men who ] fought under the flag of their section, and l they have all admitted that the war so suc- cessfully carried to it's culmination by | Abraham Lincoln was benefit to the south. I propose the toast of Abraham Lincoln
 The members arose and drank the toast l in silence.
 MT. Dewell called on a man who was present at the convention that nominated Lincoln for the second time, the old war horse, N. D. Sperry. [Cheers.]
 Mir. Sperry said: How many changes have been wrought in our body polite, how many changes have been wrought in | the ideas and sentiments of the people 1 since the election of Abraham Lincoln! I remember we'll the turmoil, the excite ment, the spirit which animated the people when the Missouri compromise was over thrown. President Pierce was elected in 1852 because he said that the Missouri compromise should never be revoked. But during his administration, when the south again came into power, the old compromise was torn up and the vast western lands were thrown open to liberty | and to glory. There was terrific excite ment then. I was in the committee in the convention which, after a weeks struggle, which by the vote of the state of New York decided that the north should not only assist in the recapture of the ne gro refugees but accept the condition of the compromise of 1859. We Jeff that convention and went to the Girard house and declared that the states of Kansas and Nebraska should be admitted only on an anti-slavery basis
 Then MT. Lincoln took up his clarion cry of freedom. MT. Sperry now alluded tc flag was fired upon at Sumpter; how they
 rallied around the grand old standard, and in behalf of freedom. How we of those days remember the excitement and extent of turmoil in the nation. How it set the young blood of the north on fire. You yonger men of to-day cannot realize it.
 MT. Sperry then alluded in graphic termf
 to the cul1nination of that "irrepressible conflict" to the bitter struggle between the anti slavery and the pro-slavery ele
 ment. The feeling in the north had crys
 talized into firm stand against the spread of slavery.
 Abraham Lincoln took up the cry fol
 freedom, holding in brave words that i1
 the end the right must triumph. I well
 remember when Mir. Lincoln came here te
 New Haven whilel was chairman of ou1
 state central committee. It was on Marct IF, 1860. I now remember how his eyel
 lighted up when he spoke. A finer, nobler
 truer eye you never saw. He stayed while
 here at the house of Hon. James F. Bab
 cock, who was then editor of the Palladium
 and who gave him dinner at the close
 In his speech here, at old Union hall, b,
 said: "There are people who would d.
 away with slavery with one fell stroke
 We must meet it fearlessly
 but we must do it constitutionally. w
 must educate the people and they, the par
 amount authority in our land, will arise
 and extinguish it. am opposed to slavery
 in these United States. I will fight to my
 utmost to overthrow it, but when it comel
 to fighting it in it's intrenched territory WI
 must be cautious, gentlemen, but when i
 comes to overthrowing the Missouri com
 promise we will say we will nee
 you on this line, and human sla
 very shall not go beyond it's presen
 boundaries.
 From here he went to Meriden on hi way to see his son at Andover, Robert E
 Lincoln, minister to England. MT. Lin
 coln's visit here paved the way to the cleo
 ton of William A. Buckingham in th spring of 1860 and of Abraham Lincoln i, , the fall of 1860.
 |, The democracy of to-day would have yo, ] DolloVo CuaC they were tuo oIlSIuaA dutl slavery men, but they fought us on thu ground that slavery was 8 divine institu
 tion, fostered by the constitution.
 MT. Sperry then detailed Mir. Lincoln
 administration of the urgency for enamel patton of the slaves, and at last, when tn E time was ripe and the war two years il
 progress, Mir. Lincoln issued his proclama : tion. The people were then ready for i 3 and endorsed it. Then there were attack B 1 against the president and the cabinet, an, , Horace Greeley, the strongest writer " have had in this country, great mal , | when he was in the opposition-he, toe , assailed this move. The democracy a that time were raising their peace flags al 8 over the country, and one of the leaders o the republican party of Connecticut, Vii
 liam W. Eaton, was raising the peace cry
 Now I come to the time when Abraham
 Lincoln was renominsted at Baltimore
 You will scarcely believe me when I sa the house, and speak whereof know : who were in favor of his renominatiou
 Isaac N. Arnold had the courage t . step forward and say am for no protect ] crate. and the people took up this cry an f renominated President Lincoln on his ow
 platform as to what to do withs the cor
 quered states. There were people who be
 leved thet when the America armies had been so far victori
 ops, that the south should
 admitted as territories without slavery This was the plan of Sumner and Q l Wade, but MT. Lincoln stepped forwar'
 and said, am here to put down the wa . and restore the Union. When this i
 done the congress may determine what 1
 will do with slavery. When Mr. Hahl