The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-13
LlNCOLN'S MEMORY HON0RED


has it wrought. We have achieved
much since March, 1897, when our
leader took possession of the whlte
house. Much that has affected the des-
tiny. not only of this republic but also
of the world. But / can't help but feel
that the great feeling Of national unity
that has been so manifest during INC
past few months would, were ne hvins
to-day, be more gratifying to Abraham
Lincoln than anything else, union
compact and indivisible The century
lust closing held many more ricii
achievements but only one man sWee'
and gentle alike in hut and palace only
ono sweet, patriotic, sainted Lncolil'.
REV. MR.. FERRIS ADDRESS.
Rev. George H. Ferris, pastor Oh Cal
vary Baptist church, spoke on ne TOPIC
abraham Lincoln" After very happy
| Introductory remarks he came 10 tlle
subject of the martyred president anu
said:
| I should be blind indeed to this OPP
portunity if / turned into a mere chron-
| icle the story of a man the subllmlty
and majesty Of whose character arose
from his unswerving fidelity TO truth
and his unwillingness to invent hes anu
label them with living names. Like
Leonidas, like the Maid of Orleans, hke
WASHINGTON was Lincoln-these noble
souls were utterly freed from any sus-
picions of a purely personal ambition,
and held their lives as the servants, not
of selfishness and greed but OF certain
undying and infinite principles whlch
must ever hold sway over all the al
| fairs of man. To the tremendous TASK
| laid upon him by the American people
he brought mind utterly free from al
poison Of cynicism, a heart whose al
mosphere had been purified by tne
stoms of struggle and adversely and a
character that had learned in the Ire Oh
a backwoods farmer and river poal-
man to know the culture OF LABOR anu
respect the dignity of toll.
No man ever loved to save HE more
than Lincoln. His doorkeepers mao
standing orders that, no matter now
great the throng of visitors, even II SEN
ators and representatives had 70 De
turned away without an audience, ut
must see before day was done every
messenger who came to him with petl'
ton for the saving of life. Men cali
ed him weak because he could not re-
fuse a pardon, and the officers IN the
army complained that he was WrecKlne
all discipline by his soft-heartednessi
but when reverses came that caused
storms of censure to break over MS
head, when the newspapers in Wasnlng'
ton were referring to him as that stu
bid blockhead," when even the leaders
of his own party were beginning u
shake their heads at his, when his gen
erals were calling him foolish for Ms
continued confidence in Grant, and wher
delegations were waiting upon him u
ask for the removal of that bulldog o.
the wilderness, they found that the ten
der gentleman who sat in the WHIT
house with his long legs crossed was no
SO weak and easily moved after ALL Mel
fool themselves if they fancy that be
4 cause sunbeams are gentle there Is nj
force in that blazing monarch ina
holds the earth in its orbit.
To my mind the greatest gift tn
world receives from a character INK
that of Lincoln is it's union of stron'
moral nature with a large intellectual
| grasp. Somehow, amid the CLASH an
confusion of cross-purposes and the Ia
byrinth of paths and principles whlc
confront us in complex ciWlizatlof
these two wander apart and lose eac
other. and men tell you with snee
| that YOU must choose between bigote
II and small-minded morality and an un
principled and constituencies culture
Colonel N, G. Osborn's toast wa
"The Press" His remarks were OF tn
happy after dinner style, of which n
y is a master, and mingled with his WI
. and story telling were sentiment
founded on the bedrock of commo
sense and very much to the points l
beginning his remarks he addressed nj
, hearers as "Fellow Young Citizens n
8 said that the occasion recalled to hir
: those words of Sankey, almost PEI
suaded.' He had heard from I'd
: sneakers a great deal of philosophy
l much of which he agreed with. lie sal
| that this was the only combination c
republicanism and prohibition which h
had experienced. If he had been
: voter when Abraham Lincoln ran X
president he would have voted for hir
$ because he would have felt like marcf
= ing with the boys in blue when tn
= country was in danger. Abraham Liz
e coin was P hero from civic considers
e lions. He said: IF was to say any
: thing to you men of one faith, 1T woul
: be that you have an opportunity ths
has no parallel in the history of tt
:. nation. You can't make good histol
: that good democrat can't share Il
s You can't do anything good that ever
n good citizen can't share in. We hay
a had strange revolutions in business an
!. in politics during the past few year
= The wheel Is going around with gre'
r rapidity You have there great pro
lens which If not solved wisely ma
a cleave your party as other parties hay
e been cleaved because back of all is
e great mass of people, unable to go
banquets, who are absolutely honest al
e pure of heart. Those are the Peep
: whom Abraham Lincoln referred to
his children. For the sake OF Il
: country I wish you Godspeed in yol
: party. But while 1 wish you Godspe'
in the affairs of your country l hol
J. that the time will come when well
: ganized, we'll disciplined men will me
# you, who, if they can't beat you, W
keep you good.
IS Hon. Hubert Williams spoke
every Man Over Against His Ov
a Door, He said in part: