The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-08

briefly told the life stories OF the prin-
| clpadS in the great debate of thirty
eight years ago; reviewed the circun-
stances leading UP to the arrangement
Tor the meeting of the oratorical giants,
and, continuing. said:
NO more important council ever
gathered than the conciaye of friends
summoned to Springfield by Lincoln
that he might read them MS opening
speech The keynote of it was the ia
nous declaration, "A house divided
against itself cannot stand. 1 believe
TINS government cannot endure perma-
nently half slave and half free l do
not expect the Union TO be dissolved
l 90 not expect the house to fail-but l
do expect it will cease to be divided.
1t Wiz become all one thing or all the
other. Either the opponents of slavery
viii arrest the farther spread of it,
and place it where the public mind shall
rest in the belief that ii is in due course
or ultimate extinction; or its advocates
Will push it forward until it shall be
come alike lawful in all the states-old
as well as new, north as well as south.
The shrewd politicians about him
unanimously opposed his making this
statement. They Said Douglas would
seize upon it and use it TO arouse the
Union sentiment in his favor, and
frighten the timid from Lincoln by
claiming il TO threaten a dissolution of
the Union. Lincolns answer was the
first revelation TO his advisers and the
country Of that basic moral element in
his nature which ultimately found its
fun expression in the proclamation of
emancipation. He said: I would
rather be defeated with these express
sions in my speech held UP and dis
cussed before the people than be vic
torious without them Regardless of
personal consequences or the danger
signals of the hour, he lost the sena-
torsaip and gained the presidency by
illustrating in both speech and action
his abiding faith that God reigns.
THE famous controversy over the
Rouse divided against itself, nowhere
discussed more bitterly than here on
this platform, ended at AppomattoX.
The house dsd not fall but it did be-
come all free The new south, the
peopled west, the enriched east. and the
prosperous north, can calmly review the
issues which so radically divided them
in the past and reverently thank God
that in the final conflict and its settle
ment the leader of the forces of union
and liberty was the grealt-hearted,
broad-souled, wise-brained man of love
and charity, Abraham Lincoln
Hon. Robert T. Lincoln delivered a
brief address, which was followed by
the unveillng Of the tablet by Professor
Finley'S 3-year-old daughter.
The tablet is Of bronze with raised let
ters, and is about eighteen inches by
twenty-four inches in size. The inScrip-
ton on the tablet commemorative OF
the debate is as follows:
This memorial tablet is placed here
to recall the joint debate between Abra-
ham Lincoln and Stephen A. Doug
las. whose words these walls echoed on
October the 7th, 1858.
Sc Equality among the different states
is a cardinal principle upon which all
our institutions rest'-Douglas.
9" He is blowing out the moral lights
around us who contends that whoever
wants slaves has a. right to hold them.
The unwilling address was then de-
livered by Senator Palmer.
AFTER THE EXERCISES
a reception was held at the college I'M
til 6 o'clock.
Tonight the greatest political demon
stration of the year was held in honor
Of Chauncey NJ. Depew, who addressed
a crowd Of 10000 in the large tent re-
Gently erected by the Republicans.
Preceding the address there was a. !
parade participated in by 5000 people |
from different parts of the country. Mr.. |
Depew spoke for more than two hours. |
The speech from beginning To end was a
most logical one. The speaker was
interrupted by applause, and !
ne arraigned Mr.. Bryan and some of his !
statements regarding the benefits of |
rec silver to the workingmen Of the |
country.