The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-16
SCOTCH-IRIsH SOCIETY.
SIXTH ANNUAL BANQUET AT THE
HOTEL BELLEVUE.
Herbert Delivers "a pntri-
otto Address, and Relates a New
Story on the Late President Lin
co1n-Time Has Passed When
Might Makes Right.

Philadelphia, Feb. 15.-The Pennsyl-
vania Scotch-Irish society held it's
sixth annual banquet at the Hotel
Bellevue tonight a 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 Gro5yenor, Of Ohio. Colonel A
K. Mcclure presided. Secretary Her.
bert, was the first speaker. He said
in part:
When received the kind invitation
you sent me to join you in this dinner
was glad to accept it, for there is a
smart strain of Irish blood in my veins
and a somewhat smaller one of Scotch
and I felt that [ could claim kindred
here and have that claim allowed.
"Not only, Mr.. President, are we
descended from the very stock, but we
are improvements on that stock
Gentlemen, aristocracy, as it is UNDER
stood, in Europe, is contrary to the
letter and genius Of our institutions,
and no man here would have it other
wise. Yet there is pride of race, a
pride of ancestry and lineage that is
laudable, enobling, that lifts men up
to be of the times, but little lower
than the angels are; that the very life
and breath Of our institutions which
exist, and which can exist only, when
founded upon the virtue and conser-
vattsn Of the the people who sustain
and administer them
when I was a boy in the south, and
the institutions upon the foundations
Of social life of the north and the south
were so widely disSimilar, the doctrine
was Familiarity taught thatthe line that
separated America into two peoples
had been drawn by the surveyors.
Mason and Dixon, across the CONT
nent from east to west, but that line
of demarkation exists no longer; it has
{ been wiped out forever.
! Il do not think there is any more
striking illustration of the real 5enti-
ment in the south today than the af-
fectionate and continually growing
DRY of Lincoln. Who I believe vas OF
, Scotch-Irish birth. Born in slave
state, reared in a free state, Abraham
Lincoln, the spirit incarnate of The
struggle for the preservation Of the
Union slavery or no slavery.
TT he wrote to Horace Greeley
TO preserve the Union it is necessary
to preserve slavery, I am for the pres
ervation of slavery Fortunately ii
was ordained that slavery was to So
down. With Abraham Lincoln. the
Union was indeed the paramount OBJ
ject of patriotic desire.
'I heard recently an anecdote which
I don't remember to have seen II
print. It WAS attributed - Senate,
Henderson Very early In the civil
war. extremists began to urge PresI-
dent Lincoln TO issue a, proclamation
to abolish Glavnry Mr.. Liunoln was
the matter was still under consdera-
ton the present ex-senator Henderson
went to see Che president at tie White
House. Just as Mr. Sumner was leaV.
ing. Mr.. Lincoln said: Henderson
did you meet Sumner out there at tht
door?'
Yes. sir
"'Well. that man comes here once
a day. There are three Of them Wit
have entered into a connbi7ation t.
compel me to issue a proclamation
T emancipating the slaves. They wan
it done now, whether I think the time
has come or net. Ben Wada comes
early in the morning. Sumner cDIre
at noon and Thad Stevens comes a
Di@ht I've gotten so I hate the SIGH
. of them. Every time I lay eyes on on
Of them I think about the buy wh
was put to reading the Bible at SClno
and got stupid when he came to tn
! names of the men who walked through
the fiery furnace. He "ead aIon
j.; glibly enough until he come to thos
! names, then he halted The teacbe
l scolded him. but it was of no use. H
l trounced him, and still the boy coul
. not get out the names. Then tn
teacher shouted: "Shadrach, Mesha
and Abednago, you Ounce; skip they
and go along" The boy read alon
very smoothly for a page, and the
all at once broke out crying. What
! the matter?" said the teacher Tn
; boy blubbered out: Here comes ther
! internal three fellows again
Lincoln was patient and kindly an
} broad-hearted enough to do justice /
2 the motives and to the valor even {
! his enemies when they had arms
either hands. 1t was on looking owe
, the battlefield of Gettysburg that /
s said, in reply TO an officer who had r.
e marked that the Americans who he
those heights would live in history:
: That is true. But the American
, ! who charsed those heights will al:
s live in history"
e In conclusion, Mr.. Herbert said:
"The time has passed when migl
makes right, whether for individuals
for nations. Our national governme,
must do that which is right unto i
people and to all the nations and e
c the rulers on the earth, great az
small, and thus be Ike the city set {
a hill. There lies the example to 6
% the world Of wisdom, the justice al
boundless benefcience of free instit