Evening star., 1901-04-17
EulOgy of Lincoln.

| tJo enlisted IN the army ana did Valu-
| able service.
| EuIOgy of Lincoln.
Mrs. Layton was followed by Rev. DR..
| Walter K. Brooks, pastor of the Nineteenth
Street Baptist Church. who spoke of Presi-
| dent Lincoln as the savior of the country
-redeemer of a race" and, in part he said:
| The 10th day of April, 1862, was rendered
| historic by Abraham Lincoln, who at that
| time was President of the United States.
On that day he signed the act of Congress
which abolished slavery in the District of
Columbia"
Mr. Lincoln. DR.. Brooks said, had advo-
Gated such measure when he was in Con-
gresS during the forteS, but the pro-
slavery sentiment of the country was so
strong and so commanding in influence,
especially so mighty in political circles,
that his efforts were. for the time, fruitless.
The measure which brought freedom TO the
slaves of the District of Columbia vas quite
different from that which, in 1865, brought
freedom to the colored people in the states
which seeded from the Union in 1860 and
1861.
In the District of Columbia the slaves
were made free by an act of Congress !;
while the blacks in those states which
took up arms against their own flag and
their own country were freed by the act
of one great man-Abraham Lincoln. In
the District of Columbia the slaves were
pald for. so that their owners suffered no
financial loss: but the slaves in the seeded
states were freed without compensation to
the masters. Both measures were made
leSal by the signature of Mr.. Lincoln
Without his signature the freedom of the
slaves. in the District Of Columbia and in
the seeded states alike. would in all proba-
bility have been rendered, impossible at
least in his day. To Mr.. Lincoln Is due the
credit, as to no other American statesman
for the complete and final overthrow of the
institution of slavery in the United States
That the recurrence of this day, April 16.
n Ia mn ary-' Z ba,
said, should awaken in us emotions of joy
and admiration for the life and public ser
vices of Mr.. Lincoln. and for. the virtues
and heroic deeds of all like him, Is but
natural -
Runaway Slave.
Mr. E. M. Hewlett spoke on "Crispus
Attucks," and referred to the fact that he
was a runaway slave, concerning whom an
advertisement appeared in the Boston Ga
zette of October 2, 1850, he having be-
longed to a man in Froningham, Mass
| Mr.. Hewlett referred to the fact that At
tucks never returned to his master nor
was he ever caught. He was next seen
twenty years afterward leading q crowd of
citizens down State street to attack the
British soldiers. Attucks was the first to
| fall. Thus the first blood shed for liberty
in the colonies was that of a negro. He
| referred to the fact that the negro had al
| ways done his full duty in defending his
| country but the negro must learn to be
| as good a citizen in time of peace as he
| had been a soldier in time of war. mo
| man who behaves like a gentleman said
the speaker, can long remain in COM
| munity without being respected as a gen.
| teman. You must stop lying, stop steal
| ing stop fighting and keep sober. You
i must learn to accumulate something. You
must learn to be producers well as con-
| sumers; to be employers well as en-
| ployes Stop finding fault with white peo-
pie, for they will surely respect you if
! you will only respect yourselves
Mr.. Hewlett also paid a glowing tribute
| to the late Frederick Douglas.
Tribute to Salmon r. Chase.
Rev W. B. Matchett, who was chaplain
| at Fortress Monroe when during the civil
| war it was successfully under the COM
| mand of Generals Butler and Wool, spoke
| on Salmon P. Chase"
After giving some interesting facts con-
cerning Mr.. Chase's ancestry and early life
| he stated that upon arriving at manhood
| he carefully avoided both parties of that
day-the whig and democratic-and framed
| one Of his own-which looked to the final
| abrogation of slavery-or at least confining
it to the states then holding it.
| After giving many details of Mr.. Chase s
life between 1920 and 1S49 the speaker
stated that in the latter year he was by a
| coalition elected United States Senator. In
| 1861 he entered the cabinet of President
| Lincoln, and when the latter had read the
| emancipation proclamation to his cabinet
and asked for suggestions, no one made
| any but Mr. Chase. He asked that there
| be added the words land the gracious
| favor of Almighty Cod so that 1t closes
| thus: "And upon this act, sincerely be-
| lieved to be an act Of justice warranted by
| the Constitution, upon military necessity,
| l invoke the considerate judgment of man
kind and the gracious favor Of Almighty
| Cod
| John Browns Memory.
Mr.. Lucius H. Peterson took for his
| theme John Brown" He gave many in
teresting facts connected with that man,
and, among other things, said he was born
of humble parentage in the state Of Con-
necticut in the year 1900; he was taken to
Ohio at the age of five years and enjoyed
| his boyhood with the wild farm life Incl
| dent to the early settlers of the west
When only twelve years of age he showed
| his spirit of self-reliance and courage by
driving herds Of cattle to the camp Of Gen.
Harrison grandfather of the late Benja-
| min Harrison) this country then being en-
| gagged with Great Britain in the war of
| 1872 John Brown possessed very little
| book learning, and as young man took
| no part in the ordinary pleasures of the