Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-03-10

Gods surprises, his career is standing
rebuke of dilettante idleness, and
freezes the sheer upon the thin lips OF
caste. He inherited his father frame
and his mothers heart as his sole
fortune. They were enough; they
gave him that courage and that sym.
pathy which were the outfit of peer.
less manhood.
Humanely speaking, he was never
brought up"-he came up, by hardest
struggle through dismal lack and stark
necessity. But he came up, and up he
stands, distinctly the typical American
nobleman Let those who hold the
stirrup of alien underings, and play
the flunkey to titular rank however
rank its ignobility), summon their
scant brains to consider this indigne-
Gus soul, and to learn that no cradle of
Plantagenet or Hanover, of Hapsburg,
Bourbon or Brandenburg, ever rocked
so much of immortal renown. ZAP
plause.
THE FIRST CABINET.
With what broad sagacity he com.
posed the first Cabinet, and with what
surprise they discovered the self reli
ance and determination of their mas
ter! From the outset his remarkable
estimating of men, his keen perception
OF aptitude, bis dignified independence,
his finality of cautious decision, stood
revealed. No boss successful whisper.
ed behand that chair which some be.
fore him had occupied, but which LIN
coin filled. Applause. He redeemed
the Chief Magistracy from those asso.
Citations of mediocrity which Tyler.
Polk, Pierce, had imposed upon it.
Such as this unshorn Nazarite be all
our Presidents to come Seward had
imagined that for himself to he Secre.
tary of State was to be first in that
Cabinet group; but he learned that
even he was as boy driving with a
father g hand upon the reins. He recog.
nized the situation, as later Stanton
also did--Stanton, so magnanimously
appointed, and whose affection was at
once his own rarest honor and to his
chief the most masculine tribute.
Would that that Chase had been as
great.
Then the solemn $50 help me Godn
of March 4, and when after the long
suspense during the first part of that
deliverance, the shout of the concourse
broke out in floods, rebukiug the dis
loyal faces that glowered about, this
Union knew that it had found not only
an official, but man. As of Israel's
first king, Certain sons of Belal said,
How shall this man save us? but he
held his peace" Fast went the strange,
foreboding days. until there came the
hour of that other Kentuckian--Ro Robert
Anderson. Then rang out the awful
trumpet, and every good hand was at
the halliards. Up went the flag, to the
watchword of John A. Dix. This CITY
was scarlet with it, as never since
save once. The 9th Massachusetts
marched out of the Astor House to the
tune of yankee Doodle - After her
swept your own true 7th to the Capitol.
Stephen A. Douglass land for that we
forget all else declared: when hostile
armies are marching under new and
odious banners against our common
corntry the shortest road to peace lies
in the most unanimous and stupendous
preparation for war;" There leaped
the live thunder, and every rattling
crag of Liberty answered it. lAp-
plause,
Rounded out nightly the first of
those proclamations demanding the
great price of freedom, and from the
lumber camps of the Androscoggin
and the Escanaba, from the quarries
of Vermont and New Hampshire, from
the fishing smacks of Massachusetts
and the spindles of Rhode Island, from
the colleges of Connecticut and Nsw
York and Ohio, from the mines of
Pennsylvania and Michigan, from the
Of hn - O.
Adams and Alexander Hamilton and
Ben Franklin and cities hundred
more, from the Adriondacks and the
Alleghanies and the far Sierras. from
village and prairie and lakeside and
highway, there rose the answer of the
free, "All up" The old Liberty bell,
that so long had slumbered, found it's
voice again. The giant was awake.
Applause.
HIS COMMAND OF LANGUAGE.
What words he spake-this uncondi-
tional man. What repertoire aie his
untarnished phrases of patriotism and
high devotion. His proclaim ations
were battles, conclusions, anthems.
Apt in adage and apothegm, his illus.
trated speech so homely yet so construc.
tive, was like that of Aesop, and his
plain wisdom was most of all like that
of Socratese. II have talked with
great men," said Lincoln, "and do
not see how they differ from others"
No, not in talk, in meaning nor in wit
so much as in the will to use it wisely,
Lincoln had that true oratory which
in Webster's words, "does not consist
in speech, but exists in the man, in the
occasion and in the subject" Candor,