Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-13
IN LOVE RECALLED.
The Name and Fame Of the
Martyr President.
NATAL DAY OF LINCOLN OBSERVED.

Ingerson Pays the Dead Statesman a
Credited with Making the Nineteenth
Century nlustrious, Lincoln and Oar
win-Analysis of the Formers Charac-
ter-Chicago Honors to His Memory
Churches, schools and Clubs Join in the
Eulogium-At New York.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13-Colonel Robert
G. Ingersoll delivered lecture at the
Broadway theatre last night on Abraham
Lincoln. He opened his remarks by say
ing: "Eighty-four years ago today two ba-
bies were born-one in the woods of Ken
lucky, amid the hardships and poverty o.
pioneers; one in England, surroundedJB
wealth and culture One was educated In
the university of nature. The other at Ok
ford. One associated his name with the
acknowledgements of labor, with the emanci-
patton of millions with the salvation of
the republic. He is known to us as Abra-
ham Lincoln. The other broke the chains
Of superstition and filled the world with
Intellectual light, and he is known as
Charles Darwin. Because of these two
men the nineteenth century is illustrious.
The Saving Minority.
"A few men and women make the nation
Observation-Disclosures made England i'm
mortal; Voltaire civilized and humanized
France; Goethe, Schiller and Humboldt
lifted Germany into the light; Angelo, Rap
hazel, Gallileo and Bruno crowned with
fadeless laurels the Italian brow and now
the most precious treasure of the great re-
iS ha Of b-ol -,
coin" After briefly summarizing the
events leding up to the civil war Colonel
Ingersol went on to say: The sympathies
of Lincoln, his ties of kindred, were with
the south. His convictions, his sense of
justice, and his ideals were with the north.
Lincoln was a statesman. And there is this
difference between politician and a states
man: A politician schemes and works in
every way to make the people do some
thing for him. statesman wishes to do
something for the people"
Really Great Rarely Elected.
ut is not common thing to elect
really great man to fill the highest official
position. do not say that the great presi-
dents have been chosen by accident Prob
ably it would be better to say that they
were the favorites of happy chance The
average man is afraid of genius.
by nappy chance Lincoln was nominated
and elected in spite of his fitness, and the
patient, gentle, just and loving was called
upon to bear as great burden as man has
ever borne. After the proclamation of
emancipation was signed Lincoln held it,
waiting for some great victory before Civ
ing it to the world, so that it might appear
to be the child of strength.
The Celebrated Letter to Greeley.
@This was on the 22d of July, 1862. On
the 22d of August of the same year Lin
coin wrote his celebrated letter to Horace
Greeley in which he stated that his object
was to save the Union; that he would save
1t with slavery if he could; that if it was
necessary to destroy slavery in order to
save the Union he would; in other words,
he would do what was necessary to save
the Union. This letter disheartened to de-
gree thousands and millions of the friends
Of freedom. They felt that Mr. Lincoln
had not attained the moral height upon
which they supposed he stood And yet,
when this letter was written the emanci-
patton proclamation was in his hands and
had been for thirty days, waiting only an
opportunity to give it to the world"