Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-13
PAY TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN
Republicans Of Nebraska Gather on Ami
ver,ary Of His Birth.
SELECT CITY NAMED FOR THE MARTYR
Principal Address of Young Mems
Republican Club banquet Made
by w. n. ROse-shOrt Talks
by Others


NEItm otdH correspondent
LINCOLN. Feb. 12.-(Spccial)-The name
CT Abraham Lincoln. dear to the hearts OF
all Americans, was the inspiration that
made the annual banquet Of the Young
Mons Republican club tonight such a sue
cess. The banquet was given at the Lindeli
hotel and 200 members and guests, includ-
ing a delegation from the omaha Young
Mems Mckinley club. sat at the festel
board. Norris Brown, deputy attorney gen
eral, was the postmaster.
The opening address was by Governor
Mickey on our Nations Needs" The
principal address of the evening was by
W. B. Rose OF the attorney generals stan
and a synopsis OF 1t appears below. other
speakers we're: Judge P. ]. Cosgrove,
Patriotic citizenship" Judge Aaron Wall,
Our Country" Representative Spurlock,
"A Man Of Yesterday and for All Time"
p. p. Holmes. The Young Man in Poll
tics" Mr.. Rose said in part:
The republican party has been happy in
the selection of its leaders. Republicans
have always had high ideals of statesman
ship and manhood, and with them leader
ship Is not the inheritance OF wealth or
station. In selecting their first standard
bearer they chose a man who was born in
the roorless cabin OF a hunter, 1t is ninety
was born, and II is fitting that the Young
Mems Republican club should celebrate
another anniversary of the birth of their
We are ali familiar with the little that
is known of Lincoln's early life in Hardin
county, Kentucky, where he was born,
and with the pictures OF his rustic birth
place. We have often heard the story OF
the hardships and poverty of his childhood,
of his removal to Indiana. where he grew
10 manhood; of his efforts to acquire an
education and to prepare himself tor bust
like Moses, his Indignation was aroused by
the beating of a slave; of his emigration
to Illinois, where he helped to build a cabin,
where he cleared a field and where he split
rails; of his studying law and practicing
at Springfield; of his services In the state
United States; of his leadership Of the new
republican party in Illinois in 1858; of his
unsuccessful candidacy for the office of
reputation he won in his famous debates
with Stephen A. Douglas, and of his nomi-
1850.
one Purpose of Lincoln.
1t has taken volumes to record the his
tory which Lincoln has made. OF his in
estimable services to mankind l shall men
ton briefly a single purpose of his ad-
ministration, the purpose to enforce the
laws of the United States in every part of
the union.
constitution of the United States there was
more or less discussion of the doctrine that
each state, when going into the union,
retained inherent power to resist federal
laws or to secede whenever, in the judg-
ment OF the state authorities. the nation
attempted to enforce measures not war
ranted by the constitution of the United
States. The earliest authentic assertion of
this doctrine was a document prepared by
of resolutions by the legislature OF Ken
lucky in 1898. Afterward agitation of this
doctrine of state rights constantly in
creased, and was augmented by persistent
efforts on the part of the northern states
10 resist the extension Of slavery: The
democratic national convention. which con-
vaoad Of Cincinnati in 1885 rea firmed in
it's platform the Kentucky resolutions, and
made them part of its creed. 1t was on
this platform that James Buchanan was
elected president. -Four years later. In May,
1860, the republican national convention met
! at, Chicago and nominated ABRAHAM LIN
a platform containing these words: The
federal constitution. the rights OF the
states; and the union of states must and
No political party had ever before under
taken so ~momentous a task, When Lincoln
was inaugurated he was beset on every
hand with the gravest perils, but In his
inaugural address he frankly stated his
purpose to carry out the policy of his party
10 preserve the union OF states, saying.
II shall take care, as the constitution
itself expressly %enJoins upon me, tnat the
law OF the union be faithfully executed in
all the states
Cost In Blood and Treasure.
No purpose of a ruler was ever before
carried out at such an expense of blood and
treasure as this purpose of President LIN
coin. When he took his seat war was In
that it might be avsrted. He declared
without equivocation hat there would be
no war unless i was forced upon the ma.
but the south had already begun prepeia-
lions for a conflict. Fort Sumter was fired
upon, most of the southern states seeded
in rapid succession, and the southern con-
federacy was formed. with its capitol az
R FdS me- 1SouN %he af f free WAR the ees Saves Lo oT Of
d%epriving the southern people OF their
rights or property. The one consuming
purpose of his administration was to en-
force the laws of the United states In
every part OF the union, and so when &c
made his first call for I5,COO troops 1t VAS,
as said in the call itself, 70 repossess the
iotts. places and property which has been
seized from the union.
-Four awful years of blood and carnage
ensued before his armies repossessed the
forts. places and property which had beer
seized from the union. and before he could
enforce the federal authority in the states
which had seeded; but the union victory
at Petersburg. the fall of Richmond and
the surrender of Lee at Appomattox came
AS soon as Lincoln heard of the evacua-
ton OF Richmond he fastened to that city
one Of the purposes of this visit, as shown
by a memorandum which he lett oehlnd
was 10 red Iln e, s a. Ira a iiS sntbo2itv o tbrPouS5.
out all the states and the disbanding OF al
hostile forces. 1t was also his intention
in the event of peace, TO amelorate, as fal
as possible. the afhictions of those who had
resisted his authority, and to consider a.
the earliest possible moment all PROPOSE
tions 10 restore amieable rela tons between
the north and the south. A few days after
n left Richmond and four lays before ht
Was struck down by ar assassin, April IA
1865. he delivered an address IN Washington
and spoke of the status of the confederate
states and their relation to the union, say
ing:
states Purpose Toward south.
" Finding themselves safely at home. 4
would be utterly immaterial whether they
had ever been abroad
When Lincoln was In Richmond for th'
last time he was In the abandoned capito
OF the coniederacy, and In the very hous'
recently occupied by Jefferson Davis as Z
/, presidential mansion. He was In the cit,
whsre war was levied against the union h
] loved Campaigns were planned there
campaigns that filled his country Will
blood and tears. Lincoln was the com
manoeI-in-chief Of a victorious army, H
WAS IN the wake OF fleeing soldiers who ha'
densd his government 10 the last eXtrem
fly; but he did ret heed the cry to oxecut'
traitors, to conhscatc property, and u
refuse amnesty. His wisdom and sagacitl