The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-19
IN MEMORY |OF LINCOLN.
ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH OBsERv-
ED BY ,. r. MILLER POST.
Rev. w. ID. simonds Pays Eioq"e"t
Tribute to Martyred President
J. w. Langley Makes an Address
Richard Osborn Recites Poem

The tbirty-hrh anniversary OF tne
aeatb az Abraham Lincoln was appropri-
ateIv observed Tuesday night az S.s
Eagieaf hall. Pacific block, by the Joni
Mfiar roxt q. A. *. The orator Oh wig
.ven,ns vas Rev W. d. Stmonds, pasNoi
~ are First Unitarian church. whose suS-
iart was .sThe Life or Lincoln.
Tho han was well Allied Win an 49, 49,
enoe in which q. A. r. men prenoili -
but which contained many ex-N 49,.
Soldiers who we're present 70 honor tne
,nernory OF the president. Members OF
,be J,aaiosf Relief Corps and the flrsl
wash,ngtou regiment were in attendan.e'
pIrhara Bradley, commander OF the NH
lar INST fopened the exercises wiz .
abort elouuean trfbute 10 IAncoln's menu
ory. and then introduced MISS oer'ruus
Levy. who rendered piano solo
Judge j. w. Langley foiiowea WIN p-
se,'al reoollectlons Of the martyred presi-
dent when the former was YOUNG
man nrartisang law in Illinois, he became
well ACQUAINTED with Lntoln. He SAID ne
woi,,a endeasor to show particularly 10
the Young people present what were the
re.I issues thai led TO tho civil war lay
ing most stress on the arti-siavery move
ment. He quoted an extract from Ian
coins speech before the Springheid CON
yention. which Judge Langley heard him
gua9e used. He described the scene In the
convention at the time, and said the
rpcech Immediately commanded the pub
lies attention, both In the South ana
North. He claimed that In II Lincoln
rave the only thorough. concise statement
OF the issues then before the people
Hoped for Peace.
The speaker quoted the last paragraph
OF IAncoIn's first inaugural address. In
which the hope was expressed that the
North and South would sin be friends,
that the better natures OF both would pre-
vail Judge Langley sotnted out the
prophecy Of the conditions row existing
all over the United States sontained In
the foregoing statement FITS tescrip-
tion Of the reading Of the nostce arnounc-
ing Lncoln's tragic Death to the soldiers
In Sherman's army In North Carolina was
vividly impressive.
After Judge Isangiey's address Miss Levy
gave a vocal solo. anchored, which was
we'll received Richard Osborn followed
with a reading OF poetic selet lions about
Lincoln. He read three poems. The
first was by Tom Taylor. In the London
Punch, shortly after the assassination
This magazine. said Mr. Osborn. malign-
ed Lincoln repeatedly during life, The
last poem was by Mr. Osborn himself and
was generously upptauded
A vocal solo by Frank Atkins followed,
the selection being 'oro Pro Nobls," and
then Mrs, Jennie Houghton Edmunds sang
The Vacant Chair Both were well re-
ceived
Life of the President.
The Grafton OF the evening, 'The Life OF
Lincoln" by Rev w. d. simonds. came
next ON the programme The address was
scholarly, couched in the choicest diction
Illustrated by apt figures and was philo-
sophicai and logical Rev Srnonds' deliv-
cry war all that could be desired. After
abiding TO the inaccufacy OF historians,
and saying that where others had failed
he could not hope to avoid errors, Mr.. ST.
monds said:
Lincoln IL entitled to rank among the
greatest men OF the nation. No other one
among them ever rose so high from such
nm abject beginning The story OF the first
twenty years OF his life is the story OF a
pitiful struggle with unfortunate condi-
tons IL was a hand-to-hand contest with
mean and meager surroundings. There is
kind OF poverty that may be of advan-
taGe to robust natures; Daniel Webster
was poor boy. There il another kind OF
poverty that hunts and fishes and loafs
about corner groceries, chews tobacco and
drinks whisky which Is devoid OF great
memories and dead 10 inspiring ambition.
God pity the boy born into such an atmos-
Rhtftf wv II ~ Rht 70 tNH the honest trNtn
20 ray that into last such conditions as
the latter II was that Abraham Lincoln
was born"
The speaker gave a sketch OF Lincoln
boyhpod home. his parents. and the pooI
whites, among whom be spent his early
years. Tie traced the course of Lincoln
life until the advent OF Sally Bush, his
s,ep.mother, of whom tho future president
once said, "She was the first woman who
made mo feel HE human being"
mis- Character Revealed.
In i>n, the tsncolu's moved 20 Illinois
two incidents occurring az this ,imc which
said the speaker, revealed the character
~ tie man The nrst was going bach
across the ford fsr his dog. the sccon,
happened at a slave market where Lin
coin was present Iie said "if I ever ge
chance 10 hit that thing l Will hit Il
hard" MIR, Simonds then reviewed Lin
coins early life Ia Illinois his first cam
peisn speech and his study % law ans
surveying His election 10 the Illinois leg
lsiaturc he described a. the ending 81 N,
nrSt period of tAurolpa career
Tho early love Affairs and suhseauen
marriage of the future statesman wer,
described, and thee Mr. Simapda discus