Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-23
- ANACONDA NEWS -

Abraham Lincoln went on the stump,
contending with the Little Giant" MI.
Douglas, for the leadership of Illinois,
Mr.. Lincolns method was hardly satis
factory to the leaders of his own party.
Clergymen and the lovers of the God
of Liberty desired him not to open up
that question any more. Statesmen ad
vised him to let it alone and let peace
prevail. But he had been fed long
enough upon the husks of hope spirit,
and the spirit Of God within him would
not down, and so he challenged his
riva, Mr.. Dauglas, to discuss this qufs-
ton with him through the state.
In 1883 the question was still to the
front and there at FreapOrt he put the
question to his opponent: Can any
settlers in any new territory form a
government among themselves and for
bid the introduction of slavery?' Mr..
Douglas was compelled to answer ..cer-
tainly.' That was the wedge that began
to split the rail. Men saw and were.
captivated with the little giant who
was cultured and had the polish OF a
finished orator, the power to move null
titudes, but his tall rival, with his clear
cut logic and common sense, enunciated
principles that the American world knew
trate to the uttermost parts of the world.
Mr.. Douglas won the seat in congress
in 1858 but in 1860 Lincoln was carried
as on the crest of the storm of the ocean
to Washington, president of the United
states, on exactly the same principles
which he had preached two years be-
fore.
MY friends, for any one to be able to
give fair and satisfactory address on
Abraham Lincoln would require MANY
weeks of study and labor because the
subject is worthy of it. An hour before
supper tonight one of the republican
club committee came to me and asked
II would take the place of Mr.. Mantle,
who, on account of the recent death of
his mother, was unable to be present
We all sympathize with Mr. Mantle in
his bereavement and regret that he could
not be present as he would, no doubt,
have done the subject justice.
I'VE have spoken of Lincoln up to
the time he was elected president. He
is now in the white house: he is presi
dent of theUnited States; but no sooner
is he installed than the whole country
rs in arms the fierce fury of a civil war
has begun, and how does this man now
behave? The man who had maintained
the principles that had taken possession
of his soul against the counsels of his
best friends still maintains those prin-
ciples-through the days, the weeks. the
months, the years-enduring what no
other man could have borne. Lincoln
did not persevere from bloodthrsty
desire to crush the south, but he stood
firm that the whole land might be
united.
Lincoln and Thomas jefferson stood
very near together, and when jefferson
gave utterance to those famous words,
These people shall be free,' he only said
what Abraham Lincoln sought to en-
force. Lincoln republicans and Jeffer-
sonian democrats recognize that there
can be no more slavery. Everybody
must be free where liberty prevails.
"Than all honor and glory to thase
names which tonight we set up
throughout the length and breadth of
this land as worthy of our homage,
Washington was the founder of the
country. Lincoln was it's savior: WASH
ington was the Moses of it's people,
Lir.coln it's Elisha"
The exercises closed with selections
by the Morris sisters and the band.