New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-05-15
wATTERSON ON LINCOLN.
THE. BRILLIANT KENTUCKY EDITORS IN
TEREsTING ADDRESS.

APPLAUSE GREETS HIM
nesnlte a drizzling rain, Plymouth Church was
rsu Allied last night TO hear Henry "at'erso"'
r,itor of THE Louisville Courier-Journai lecture
~, abraham Lincoln" The enort was mas
,v one and fulfilled the high expectations on the
49,, If the famous and brilliant Kentuckan's andi-
80 The clergymen OF Brooklyn were especially
Iii renresented and among weli-known citizens
T., the audience Mayor Scheren, Benjamin +
Rlair William Berri. General Stewart L. "oo'
<a Jackson L. Wallace. Murat Halstead ana
ca,sral Horatio C. King. st. Clair Mckelway' oi
.rba Eagle" introduced Mr.. Watterson' giving an
,,ores,ing Renaissance of Mr. Lincoln's visit one
omndav morning in 1859 to Plymouth Church 10
hsar Henry Ward Beecher. On the day following
Tho sermon Mr. Lincoln made his famous speech
In Cooper Union 49,
Mr. Wat,erson is an Interesting figure on the
,,atform He is Of medium height. with wen-
-, arsct figure He has overhanSing eyebrows
,d h,ue ewes His mustache and goatee are al
most white while his lght-colored hair docs not
show the gray, If there is any. He wears ms mar
carelessy parted in the middle HIS cohpieNioi
"a ruddy His voice is resonant. and he was not
confined to notes. except where ne uesireu u
ouote Lincolns exact words
Mr. Watterson satrized President Cleveland
necu:iar views Of civil service reform. ana saiu
that the martyr President would not II ne were
living to-day belong TO the scnooi OF CieVea"''
Carl schurz and Theodore Roosevelt Applause
vaS
7 cont IN saw lust here few words about Mr.
1irco,n.s relation to the South and toward the
people OF the South
He was himself. Southern man. lie ana all
his tribe were Southerners. Although he lett Ken
tuckv when the merest child. he was an old chiid;
he never was very young: he grew TO manhood IN
q Ken,,cky colony; for, what is Illinois. what Is
Chicago but a Kentucky colony, grown somewhat
out OF proportion? He was IN no sense what we
used 70 call "a poor white" Awkward perhaps;
ungan perhaps nsges ra bsoeah HAT rugged
eax,eror the Imagination Of a noet beneath NOSE
S SsssS orS%5 IN" before he was
e legal sgs "a. leader T His ars' love was
nance ! dare not. No sadder idyl can be found
IN We e" know that he was poet for have We not
that mmOTs prose wa poe AZ to has not
time indicated his conclusions? But the SCUM a
&c does w ns' sn9 rsn ss'fR he ons f snd who
And he Ss, will H6uS % nave BEEN RON
the South was delivered by the assassins bullet
that struck him down 49,, rna contention
nat preceded the the WAR amq n U 1' or
eoln While there vas hardly day hat he he wss
not projecting his big sturdy personality Del"ee"
some Southern man or woman ana udHsct'
TERMS OF PEACE.
After the formal interview at that famous Hamp-
ION Roads conference. when the Confederate Com
nssioners Stephens. Campbell and Hunter. had
traversed the field OF discussion with Mr.. Lincoln.
the President and Mr. Seward. the secretary Vi
State: Lincoln. the friend, stl the OLD WING COZ
league though one was now fresdeh' Vi '"'
limited States and the other Vice-President OF
the Southern Confederacy. took the Slim pale
faced consumptive little man" aside. and' piac'ns
his arm over his shoulder. pointed 10 sheet OF
papes write Union al the top OF that page and
YOU may write below II whatever else YOU pteahee,
,imat ted that payment for the slaves was not
outside possible agreement Tor reunion ao pa.
re based ssd rna hand to approprae 500 10000 this
purpose not going to tei any 'a t, ou When en-
we are dead and gone. the private menorapia S Oh
those who what terms were really oncfe mere .,ie
iapseNwi show that in the individual tndgmen1i,
OF all Of them the wisdom OF Inc s'ua"o" 'A''
they not sai acs sts should GGa ss
i was the r w OF had ia promsed "a new
freedom and this could ony be reaenso na Struck
a attain IT, aGE Cd bghted the south attain L But
attest mf a'1 i, a' GODS will be done earth i is done
in Heaven But let no southern man p Tn For
he was the only friend we had at Court whe N
most in need he was as n na She to saye
Is from the wolves Of passion and pun os wb bna
stood At our sss ihs and G He sai E
eneh that the South should n b De bSe of an
assassin having neither 10, nor parcel Mor'n o ur
SOUTH but winged emssary 1r q t wbch Heschyu
and Shakespeare created, and consecrated 10
one thinks now that the world in which Lincoln
lived might have dealt more gently by sucn man li
He himself 50 gentleso uprSsh' IN o1eran, in
simple and SO un ndssasea sp prev
ing by his every act and word that-
n,, ,so Tns 9 Se wa ase ,nY patty
typical and patriotic American IN w y, resset and
could not Ssr. Be i, So think Ike asS he ~s
ahead Of his time; and men are slow 10 io's"e
what they cannot bs waves Of passion were
dashng over his sturdy figure reapsa bescb not
dead b lsys % as escaped his lips assault
ranked in his heart to sour the sp ms q from the
Sns1sd roos OF some majestic tree flowed within
him He would smS Goth oveT funny T0 story fitting The
case in point and they called him Nth she famar
would on Inc og ns sauary on
driving it home, and they called MN a Du Were
aar.ed that he lowered the standard OF debate as
II debate were intended TO shoot over rhe W. he
wsn on anS s on and until bis
time was come. when his genius runs o his
to where the G he sst his sy snakes
peare and Burns where they got ner ns s' his kn"w
edge ea ne OF se menu ASK the Lord God who created
miracles in Luther and Bonapar'e'
THE SECRET OF HIS POWER.
What was the mysterious power OF THIS MAJ" anu
whence? .,,,o,
His was the genius of common-sense. OF common
sense In action. OF common-sense in thought, OF
commonsense enriched by experience ana unh hs
6ered nv fear HE was q common man, sayn n.a
1ri.na speed Expanded into giant proportions;
well acquainted with the people t ne p'd Gdsed Of its
disease and was ready with remedy; ihsppie s
he truly as Shakespeare waS nsnrpedeach
like him sprung directly from the people. ,
look into the crystal globe that, slowly turians ~
reveals the story Of his life. and see niue hea
broken boy, weeping silently by the outstretchhe e
form of a dead mother; then bravely. nobiy Iuus
ing a hundred miles TO obtain her Christian buria;
See this motherless lad growing TO manhood anu
scenes that seem 10 lead to nothing but abasemeni
no teachers no books. no chart. except ms own u,
tutored mind; compass. except DIS oMn , un
disciplined will; no light. save light from Heavend
yet like the caravel OF Columbus. struggling on any