Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-14

his usual habit of making notes of the
speeches he heard. This was young
lawyer on the same circuit as Lincoln MT.
H. c. Whitney. For some three weeks
before the convention Lincoln ana whitney
had been attending court at Danville. Ihey
had discussed the political situation IN ths
state carefully and to Whitney Lincoln hau
stated his convictions and determlnalious'
In way Whitney had absorbed Lincoln LIN ,i.s
speech beforehand, as indeed any one must
have done who was with Lincoln when ne
was preparing an address, II uelns
his habit to discuss points ana 10 rePeas
them aloud, indifferent TO VINO healu
him Whitney had gone to the convention
intending to make notes knowing as he did
that Lincoln had not written out what ne
was going to say. Fortunately ne hau |UUl
enough head to keep TO his purpose, tie
made his notes and on returning to Judge
paws home in Bloomington, where ne, Win
Tincoln and one or two others were staying,
he enlarged them while the others dlscusseu
the speech These notes whitney kept lor
many years always intending TO write tnein
out but never attending TO IT untll last yea.
NcCIurc's Magazine learned that ne hau
tben, and urged him to write out the report
This Mr.. Whitney did and the speech VIII
soon be published in the series OF Lincoln
articles now appearing in Mcclure s. MI
Whitney does not claim that he pas naue
nerfect reDort He does claim that the ar"
gument is correct and that IN many cases
the expressions are exact. Mr.. Joseph Me-
dTl who has examined the speech, says
of it: , :.
81 have carefully and refectively read it,
md taking into account that Mr. whitney
did NOT take down the speech stenograph-
ically but only took notes and afterWard
wrote them out In full, he has reproduced
| with remarkable accuracy what MT Lincoln
said largely in his identical language anu
partly synonymous terms. Inc report oiS iS
close enough in thought and word to recall
| the wonderful speech delivered forty years
| ago with vivid freshness. -,
Judge ]. O. Cunningham OF Urbana. Ill
| who also read the speech, says OF the WHIT
ney report: ,. !.
| was that l delayed not until / had gone
| through the whole document. | heard the
speech and was very much impressed ana
| aroused by it. At the distance OF heaLIy
| forty years ! recognize very much IN tne
| utterances. manner and spirit OF the speech
especially in the moderation which he coun,
| seied The expression, ballots, not bullets,
| was like oil on the troubled waters
| EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH.
| few quotations will show any one IA
| milar with Lincoln's speeches that MI
| Whitney has caught much OF their style, Tor
| instance the following:
| our devotion to the principles OF the Declara-
| tion of Independence, let our practical work
| here be limited to the above, ana our
| weapons must be ballots and not bullets-of
| at least must not be till nothing else VIII
| do; and we must De hrm anu uhi'eu III oui
| purpose" ,
| 1--WE must first consider what We have
the power TO do; we must not make prom
| ises we cannot perform; we must not raise
hopes we cannot carry out, we must De
calm and moderate, and, like prudent men,
| consider the whole difficulty and see what
| is possible and just. We must not De
led by excitement and passion TO DO that
which our judgments would not approve
| when in our cooler moments. we nave
higher aims We have more serious busi-
ness than temporary measures we are
here to stand firmly for principle-to
stand firmly for right. We know that
great wrongs are done, and we denounce
these wrongs and outrages, although, at
present. we can do not much more than
that but we desire 10 reach out beyond
those personal outrages and prevent any
further wrongs in the future
The battle of freedom is one TO be
fought out on principle. Slavery is a
violation of the eternal right, We have
tempoTized with it from the necessities OF
our condition, but, as, sure as justice rules
and children read that black, toul lie can
never be consecrated into Gods hailowed
| truth "
The repeal OF the, sacred Missouri com
promise has installed the weapons OF vlo-
ience-the bludgeon-+-the burning torch
the bristling cannon-rthe weapons OF King.
croft of the inquisition, OF Ignorance, oil
| barbarism-of oppression. we see lts
fruits in the dying bed OF the fearless
Sumner-in the ruins OF the Free stale
hotel-in the smoking timber OF the
HERALD of FreeddhF-in the Free State
Governor of Kansas, chained TO stake OF
freedoms soil like horse thief, for the
90 '''--' " IDA M. TARBELL.