The Republican journal., 1903-02-19
TRIBUTES TO LINCOLN.

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coin, and it was fittingly observed all
over the country, the most eloquent
speakers paying due tribute to the mar
tyred President At the banquet OF the
Algonquin Club in Boston the orator
was Col. Henry Watterson-soldier,
leader, southron gentleman of the Old
school, His estimate of Lincoln left
nothing to be desired by northern au-
dience, and his eloquence held his hear
ers spellbound. "Was he inspired?" he
asked, and with vigorous gesture an
swered in the same breath: ''Ah, yes,
he was inspired just as Burns and
Shakespeare and Mozart were inspired.
Each alike sprung from the people.
From Caesar to Gladstone the world
has had its soldier and its statesman.
From first to last they were the crea-
ton of some special providence. Tried
by this standard, where shall we find an
example so expressive as Lincoln's?
Born as lowly rs the Son of God; with
out graces, natural or acquired, without
name or fame or official training, receiv-
ing a supreme command at supreme
moment and intrusted with the safe
keeping of a nation, he was inspired
by God, for from no one else could he
have obtained the wisdom which guided
him.
"a thousand years hence no epic
poem, no drama, no tragedy will be fill
ed with greater wonder or be followed
by mankind with deeper feeling than
that which tells the story of his life and
DEATH"
At the banquet of the Lincoln Club
in City Hall, Portland, the names of
Lincoln and Reed-the latter the foun-
der of the club-were coupled, and the
Maine statesman received his need of
honor County Attorney Robert T..
Whitehouse, president of the club, read
this telegram of greeting which was re-
ceived from Mr.. Reed a year ago that
night: Good health to the boys of the
club Wherever the principles OF Abra-
ham Lincoln lead, may the Lincoln
Club always follow and followed with
appropriate comment. Mayor Boothby,
CONGRESSMAN Allen and Hon. Guy
Andrews Ham of Massachusetts spoke,
and the concluding address, by Con-
gressman Washington Gardner of Mich
igan, was a scholarly and finely deliver
ed eulogy of Lincoln. Here is single
paragraph from the address:
I'm his public life Lincoln demon
strated that a man may be at one and
the same time a politician and an honest
man: politician and pure man; a pol
itican and a patriot of loftiest instincts;
a politician and a servant OF God and
benefactor of the race; a politician and
develop a type of character which at
the Judgment bar of an eXacting world
fills the full measure of its require
ments.
In New York Lincoln's birthday was
celebrated by the Republican Club with
a dinner at the Waldorf. There were
many notable speeches, and letters of
regret were read from President Roose-
welt, Robert Z. Lincoln and others.
The speech of the evening was by ex-
Governor Frank S. Black, who said in
cOncluSiOn:
They say the tides of the ocean ebb
and flow by force which, though re-
mote, always retains its power And so
with this man, whether he rose OF fell;
whether he stood III that giant-like re-
pose that distinguished him among his
fellow-men or exercised that unequalled
power which, to my mind, made him
tue foremost figure of the world, yet he
always felt the tender and invisible
chord that claimed him to his native
rock. In whatever field he stood he
felt the benign and SOLDERING influences
of his early recollections.
How long the names OF men Will last
no human foresight can discover, but !
believe that even against the havoc and
confusion III which so many names 60
down. the fame of Lincoln will stand
as immoyabe and as long as the pyra-
mids against the rustic of the Egyptian
Winds.
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