The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-16
HERBERT ON LINCOLN
SECRETARY of THE NAVY Ar A
sCOTCH-IRIsH SOCIETY BANQUET.
He Says southerncrs Revere the
Memory of the Martyr President,
and Relates a New Story.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb 1.-THE Pennsyl.
vania Scotch-Irish Society held its sixth
annual banquet at the Hotel Bellevue to-
night. large array of distinguished guests
attended. The speakers of the evening were
Secretary of the Navy Herbert, United
States Senator Henderson, OF Nebraska, and
Representatives Hatch. of Missouri and
Grosvenor, of Ohio. Col. A. Is. Mcclure
presided. Secretary Herbert was the first
speaker. He said in part:
when / received the kind invitation you
sent me to join you in this dinner 1 was
glad to accept it, for there is a smart
strain of Irish blood in my veins aud a
somewhat smaller one of Scotch, and / felt
that I could claim kindred here and have
that claim allowed. Not only, Mr.. Presi-
dent, are we descended from the very best
stock. but We are improvements on that
stock. Gentlemen, aristocracy as it is un-
derstood in Europe, is contrary to the let
ter and genius of our institutions, and no
man here would have It otherwise Yet
there is pride of race, pride of ancestry
and lineage that is laudable ennoblng; that
lifts men up to oftimes but little lower
than the angels are; that is the very life
and breath of our institutions which exist.
which can exist only when founded on the
virtue and conservatism of the people who
sustain and administer them.
When I was boy in the South. and the
institutions upon which the foundation Of
social life North and South were so widely
dissimilar. the doctrine was Familiarity
taught that the line that separated America
into two peoples had been drawn by the
surveyors-Mason and Dixon-across the
continent from east to west but that line
or demarkat1on exists no longer--it has been
wiped out forever. don't think there il
any more striking illustration of the real
sentiment in the South to-day than the af-
ence in that section for the memory or
Lincoln. who. believe. was of Scotch-irssil
free State. Abraham Lincoln f f was the n,
spirit fncarnate OF the struggle for the pres
IT, he wrote TO- Horscs r no say
preserve the Union ii is necessary to pre-
serve slavery, ! am for the preservation Of
slavery was to go down. With Abraham
Lincoln the Union was indeed the para
mount object of patriotic desire
Il heard recently an anecdote, which T
don't remember to have seen in print IL
is attributed to Senator Henderson. Very
early IN the civil war, extremists began to
urge President Lincoln to issue proclana--
ton to abolish slavery. Mr.. Lincoln was
slow in making up his mind. While the
matter was still under consideration the
present ex-senator Henderson went to see
the the PRESIDENT p at the White House. just as
| there at the door?'
% Well, that man comes here once day.
| There are three of them who have en-
tered into combination to compel me to
issue proclamation emancipating the
| slaves They want it done now, whether
| think the time has come or not Ben Wade
comes early in the morning, Sumner comes
at noon and Thad Stevens comes 2. night
I've gotten so | hate the sight or them;
| think about the boy who was put to reading
| the Bible at school. and got stupid when he
| came to the names of the men who walked
the fiery furnace. He read along glibly
/ enough until he came to those names; then
| was of no use. He trounced him. and stili
the boy could not get out the names. Then
/ the teacher shouted: 'shadrach, Meshach
/ and Abednego. you Ounce; skip them. and
go along and the bow read along very
| smoothly for pare. and then all at once
| broke ont CRYING. What's the raatt~r2 said
| Hare comes them Internal three fellers
| again.
| .T.ircoln was patient and EsndIv rnd
| broad-hearted enonoh TO do Justice TO the
| motives and 70 the vaIor even OF his
| ener,ies when thew had arms In their ha nds
il looking over the battlefield OF
Cettvsf,lrg that he said in rsriv to an Of
ficer who bad rer-,arl<ad that the Americans
i who had held those heights would 1--we in
| historv.. THAT IL true. hlt the Americans
who eheroed those heights will also live In
I history"
In conclusion. Sacretarv Herhart sasd:
s'-rhe time has paSsed rhar r,i"ht makes
rios,f whether for iudfufsre,s for No.
tons Opr nationai government must do
that wNich is rioht unto all IT'S pern'e. and
to all the nations. and rN the rufars on
tna earth greet ord evnaN. n"f tN"s viii
tha government he lire the citv set on a
hin fasr r. sec an exar,r'A 20 an The
,ro~,s ~ ..a --.sss~~o the susticA ard the
boundless he"AfcAnce Of frH@ '"ss'tut'ons
sale az Migrants Z" re st"pned.
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. Feb. 1.-THE
M's~r,,-. senate hos SOMA On rocord 40 op-