The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-08
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essence, to be then ideaIized in their adj
Grafton, and you call it Abraham Lincoln.
Hie had at once the flavor of the soil and
the flight Of the stars. When he rose to
large endeavor he had what seemed to be
almost divine inspiration. Some of his
papers in their simplicity, direetness and
strength are more like the epstles of St.
Paul than anything else in literature. His
speech was as lucent as crystal because
his thought was as clear as the sunbeam,
He was filled with sublime thoughts
which transmitted themselves into sub
lime words and sublime acts. The i'm
perishable speech at Gettysburg, which
will ever remain the greatness of his soul
and reflected his Utmost being The sec
ond inaugural rose to a moral elevation
mot reached outside of sacred deliverance,
and its lofty portraiture of the supreme
law of justice and retribudon in Gods
universe almost suggests the awful and
mystic communion of Sinai.
''The great lesson of Lincoln's match
Hess career and services is that he brave
and followed where its mandate led. He
himself said he did not control events but
events controlled him. He was great
enough to see their import and move for
ward with their requirements. He fought
the extension Of slavery but had no pur-
pose to interfere with it where 1t existed
When the war came his sole object was
10 save the union, but as events unfolded
and commanded he proclaimed emanci-
patton. He did not seek to force the de-
cree of destiny, but when it was revealed
by the uplifted curtain he had the moral
strength to execute. If he were president
today, he would maintain the honor OF
the flag, uphold the dignity of the nation
and advance it's high mission of liberty,
humanity and civiliza tion as his faithful
successor is doing. His example and
his inspiration live for all time. The ap-
probation of his great personality and his
true historic grandeur increases as we
gain the juster perspective of distance,
an dthe sanctity of his memory will deep
En- in the hearts Of his countrymen as the
sublimity of his service and the mystery
Of his martyrdom become more and more
Secretary of State Hay, being called for
by the audience, RESPONDED briefly as fol-
lows:
1T would not he becoming for me to
OCCUPY more than minute Of your time
on an occasion so important as this,
where every instant has been provided
for I will therefore only thank you for
vo,Ir kind welcome and congratulate you
on the great success Of your day. This
community has always been famous In
our annals for its loyalty to its ideals
for its devotion to the things of the
spirit In a country and time where ac-
ton receives more attention than ideas,
where material triumphs are more sure
of their recognition and reward than the
more profound and far-reaching victories
of thought, it is characteristic of the
people of Galesburg that they have
chosen to celebrate the memory of one
of the greatest intellectual and moral
contests which our country has known.
I am not the person, nor is this the place,
to discuss the merits of that battle or
Titans; but we are all agreed that there
have been few controversies more i'm
portant and significant, more filled with
human and historic interest, than the de-
bate which, beginning at Ottawa and
continued at Galesburg, was carried on
with ever-increasing power and energy
over this great state, until the nation
stood by to listen and applaud. As is the
case with all moral conflicts, dts echoes
did not die with the close Of the debate.
They swelled into a clamor like that of
an ocean shaking a continent and dis
4urbing the world. The conflict Of ideas
burst forth into a conflict Of arms, and
after four years of war and destruction,
ueace came. and reflection. and the rain
bow Of reconciliation, spanning all our
vast domain of primise. And when the
storm and the food were over, the ideas
dominant in that debate were found to
have overspread and fertilizedIth nation.
And they will live, we hope, for centuries
and milleniums to come.
I'VE rejoice in a reunited nation, bound
together. over all its immense extent. 10y
the bonds of common interest and frater-
nal love. We obey one constitution, we
follow one flag. we owe no allegiance, We
press forward together to one glorious
destiny And, in this day Of peace and
lnion-vhich was earned V most strenu-
Gus toll and STRUGGLED is worth while
TO remember that in the great controver-
sy which was opening her so many years
ago. ii was a northern man who sustain
ed the southern side and a southern man
who sustained the northern side, both of
them American in mind, heart and soul
both passionate lovers of their country,
devoted to its good. proud of its great
ness and loyal to its fias to the last drop
Of their blood
At the conclusion of the exercises. short
IT, before noon, the presidential party
boarded the train for Chicago.
SHORT SPEECH ON PROSPERITY
u .. i,,En,- EnhuInns in SnrrI q n LII. 4.