The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-05
WATrERsoN's TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN.

The hustlngs became battle ground Ma
sooner had the camp fires OF the revolution
forest fres. s''. - = ~ -. =.
Webster and Clay believed In con,pro.
missing the question which would con,e.for-
ward, but their eloquence was 10 no n,,r,
pose u was hut delay Of the inevitable.
inc SUN small voice Of emancipation broke
ont; there became less and less middie
ground the senate had liz Gettysburg, and
Snt'oh was;ed on the floor of the house,
Fhen thorc came one day into camp
man rot or iiogarth's line Of beauty, but
one whose so'tences vera pregnant with
Thought, who exclaimed: "a house divided
Nealust ITSELF can not stand"
'cnaa mhft." said Colonel Watterson
WAS Abraham Lincoln"
''ir speaker then proceeded to give de-
N9riptioh q the man. He read from A. K.
M"rnre's account OF his visit to Mr., Lin.
eoln TO confer with him upon his approach
ing inaugural. He then gave his own ac-
count us he remembered the man. when he
delivered his inaugural address, Lincoln's
own account of his career, from HIS birth
to thr While House, was also presented,
ana Its humor produced Visible wave OF
applause upon the audience.
LINCoLN's POLITICAL CREED
Colonel Watterson contended that Mr..
llrcolns creed was contained In four
speeches which be had made previous TO
Ids election. They showed him to be an
old-time wing, but no abolltionst
1nat Mr., Lincoln was man inspired by
God vas one ct The chief points brought
out by Colonel Watterson While Webster
was thirty years preparing to reply TO
Clay. Lincoln was thirty years In uncVn.
scious preparation for the presidency.
The speaker here referred to the famous
dchntas between Lincoln and Douglas,
u biol, bn nj hut ray ms
ot famous throughout The country. Douglas
WIS at Disadvantages he said. His bark
was on the cbh tide; Lincon's bark was
then being borne IN on tho Hood aide.
"Then, - now said the speaker, as a
hush fell upou The audience. only to DO
hrokeu by lo,id applause at It's close. tho
democratic party seemed hopelessiy Oh
vided."
Lincoln ana Douglas were politicians no
said as we'll as statesmen. and what they
didn't know about politics wasn't WORTH
! moving. Then Colonel Wntterson gave
dissertation Of The campaign, and showed e
how Douglas suffered from the abuse OF
scandalmonger press" he same as -
now helms waged.
Iincoln's inaugural address, said tins
speaker, was delivered as though he had
always been delivering inaugarals II
showed that he was to be the man To dom
mate the civil and military affairs OF the
Ills power III tHfa uiSSNtSts
WIS deliberately dwelt upon. Seward's At.
tempt TO dictate policy, and Its result
stantons refusal 10 execute an order, ana
tho final result OF that, aud General Hal
ocks kicking over the traces, were AZ 40.
,cribcd. tcgothcr with an explanation OF
|.incoIf's adfoit method of dominating, hut
ltlii holding the friendship OF his interiors;
LINCoIN's LOSS TO THE SOUTH.
Lincoln was himself soNthern man.
mid Colonel Watterson. but he wa ois-
inctly no, n poor white. Hts death maze
he difference In the dread twelve years
hat followed the war. Ltncolns theory
vas that the Southern States had never
,een out If he had lived, hN woniu havS
,lacnd himself al the head Of the great,
Conservative element Of the countfy Ins
lrast blow which could have been innicteo
pon the South was that Of tne dsSassHAs
Which struck him down. ;ss
LET no Southerner crificise my stA,es
nent." said the speaker, 'for nc was ths
ne friend we had"
I.luooln's style was then reIelIen 70.
Where did Shakespeare ees MS sty's ~, oI
iozart his music? Burns his sonGl Inry
icre all Inspired, and 20 WAS l.incoin.
te o,otcd rom Lincoln's Gettysburg
peech, and spoke of It - showing mas
r. mind.
,in.v he continued later on, "tnat ne Was
o civil service reforner 81 the style O
rover Cleveland" and again loud 'augn
ent up at this sally. .uA.A
Then, in a delicate manner. without
uchIns upon the dire tragedy at .ne ".
,el Watterson dsscrIbed that box party
I'd the calamity which befell its mem.
,rs. ana he closed Vita brilliant pe! ~. Z.
ton, where his eloquence reached its
.laht IA The most dramatic period Of the ss
hole address. Tht lecture had been with
m a work Of love pnd the WORK w.
ell done. M