New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-13

thusiastic applause. He sait:
He complete party man las e Dottn iyed
The Republican principles and policies OF TO-DAY
can Industry and labor has been tolerated alien
in it's own heritage until this complete American amer
Premacy Of the Co9stitqttoa and the lays had been
questions 5' it even in debate The equality Of
man was denied and destroyed He led mill
Of S0nd7Es ' BEEN rres9
this plain, sorrOwful, humorous, brave, wise and
tender man COMMANDED ths mjg9eS,t grimes ever
THE Armada's pride and spOIls of Trafalgar"
And more than all this-and his greatest triumph
MANKIND TeTeTsd in the throne icy rooms Of kings
% Or by ire 4 P IN m croed ce
itals Of civilization or in the frail cabin where the
The Sovereignty Of the United States is a unity
an entirety 1t has no gradations or degrees II is
throughout all of the domains of this Government
ries, in Alaska Hawaii Puerto Rico or the Philip
changed with " Tnat he sought BY
tR e Gf S the the and
passionate invectiye by which treason was exalted
the flag should be fr tb it's place among
4 vast and crushing militarism was to annihllate
the liberties Of the people and to It's FONDA
tons the edifce of republican and constitutional
liberty. Throughout this tormenting outc1y MI
and the Missouri to its original boundaries He
by retaining Louisiana, Florida and Texas. 1t
a renewed expansion and annexation
AS TO AGUINALDO.
decline to have any discussion with those who
rate Agunaldo above the best the bravest and the
purest of their Countrymen; who sustain a for
TFo maintain that lurking rebel is doing GODS
% G in skE as ag of a he he
soldiers / do not think that Abraham Lincoln would
do this were he with us to-day This Nation ae-
quired the Philippines upon grounds and by methods
unimPeachabe in internationa law and interna-
in the words OF Napoleon when he placed the iron
toUche
No matter what spurious issues may be fabri-
are flying to and fro from their drifting and rud-
deress ark over the flood of affairs, seeking for a
resting place. no party that the American people
will vote into power will evacuate those ISL
by historians as the best and wisest achievement
of the greatest Administration since that of Abra-
Why were not the dreadful possibilities of expan-
when the Treaty of Paris was under negotiation
as they are to-day The Commissioners who aeg go
sre-to be instructed by the convictions ana WI VIII
one word of protest admonition came to them
from or shore that Puerto Rico and the Philip
They insisted that this should be done. and It was
ratification. 1t was then discovered that here was
supply for political campaign. and straightway
raised, invoking the Declaration Of Indepsn end
ence protesting that the Constitution ,s ha1 osf
Nation, the noblest ranged empire" that ever
stood ''in all the tide of time is manned Nation
manned by its own Constitution empowered to
wage war and make peace yet jmpoteh,t 20 IN b
conquest without the consent of the governed-im-
potent TO rule them in any case.
WHAT WOULD LINCOLN DO?
Imagfre Abraham Lincoln standing forth before
the American people and tnflcting such mutila-
ton upon the Nation which he emancipated from
made what the fathers meant It should be and
feet Nation.
of right and necessity belong to soVerelgn mem
among us That majesty of buried sorrow martyr
dom and success marches before us He VIII stand
its abodes, seen in its central place from every
raTen or m eSmn % @n on it's b the
Of the tutelary genius of the American people.
The Rev Edwin c. Bolles responded to the
toast Abraham Lincoln. the Great American"
SETH LOWS RESPONSE
Seth Low responded 10 the toast Abraham
Lincoln, the True American" In the course of
his address he said that there should be no
discrimination in the tariff and 1t should be
uniform in the colonies as we'll in the States,
Representative r. Wayne Parker responded
to the toast why We Love Lincoln" He said
in part:
people that he led as a father He was gentle-the
Visited the Hospital aad Wroe he leer for W tho
dying boy and sat and held his hand until death
came, folded those hands across his breast and
then burst into tears; who took from a sick man
his name and address to order him home.
and who pardoned even the coward and the de-
serter. Be this weakneSs-We love him for It.
And love him because saw him grow TO
be what he was-the Illinois lawyer into the peo-
pies Presdent-like a tree in own garden.
watered by our tears and blood, reaching out his
branches and roots into the whole ground growing
to be the that he became Our own great
man he was-never bitter, boastful, avari,toUs
fame loving; nothing mean. loving TO exalt his fell
lows ready TO take responsibility, true and tried
daring and dutiful, lonely and loving humble yet
how hopeful; mighty, yet how simple
New-Jersey Senate, spoke briefly on Abraham
Lincoln the Statesman"