New-York tribune., 1903-02-13
LINCOLN THEIR THEME.
HIS BIRTHDAY HONORED
Speakers Land HIS Deeds at Re
publican Ciub Dinner.

In the gallery Of the WaldOrf-AstOrta at the
annual dinner Of the Republican Club. Five
hundred guests sat down in the main hall while
in the annex the wives. daughters and sisters
of the members dined. The two tiers OF boxes
were also filed with spectators and listeners
Mayor Low was unable to be present. and
Chester T. Long. who was 20 have spoken on
american Administration in our Colonial Pos
sessions was kept away by the illness OF his
wife. The souvenirs were fobs showing Abrs-
ham Lincoln splitting rails and like device
was on the cover of the sorbet De fantaisie.
Louis Stern president OF the club. opened the
evening with brief euogy Of Lincoln Let
ters Of regret were read or referred to FROM
President Roosevelt, Robert Lincoln. Mark l.
Hanna Senator Depew. Lord Charles Beres-
ford J. Pterpout Morgan, Secretary Root and
Attorney General Knox
President RooseVoIt-s letter said
feel that not merely the Republican party; but
in their power keep alive the memory Of Abra-
ham Lincoln The problems We have to solve as
face but they be solved Alright only II We
bfg bs s3 5sr b f9on 10n s6n ms % fS d
sense his broad kindliness his tactical ability and
his ofty tdealfsm
Frank s Black was then introduced He
said, in part:
This lad uncoutn and poor without aid scci-
dental circumstance. rising as steadily as the sun;
clear that there is not one to mate IL 70 be dscov
cred in the heavens, and throughout it's whole ma
1estic length there is no spot or blenlsh in il.
The love of justice and fairpiay and that re-
every nation that would long endure were deeply
embedded in his nature These I know are quail
Seart s seng og heir sTrIsstn in ' 1sI5 psT
people will neither command respect in times Of
their prosperity nor sympathy n the hour OF Their
decay These are the qualities that stand the
test when hurricanes sweep by These are the
clouds have melted and the waves are still. move
on serenely in their course Times will come when
ing ing and without SaTss use out, out Of H. csfT % and sPs @
weaker qualities to the winds. We have seen that
But it is not by the grandeur OF his powers that
he has most appealed to me- but rather @ 5y those
closer and more afectionate view.
And Lincoln was never more imposing than when
He was genuine. he was afeetionate; and. after
all all Is $ai6 @ ana & t1s e1 Yo IS FgaGnso; w1I AZ : eist
and sound the depths; you may gain the great re-
the electric current Of applause-the time Will
6n o w1eR To od The r6bs Of bower and
the husks of preteEce will alike be stripped away
beginning. revealed Under such a test Abraham am
Lincoln might stand erect Tor no man man loved {n7
Whatever he pretended to be, he was: genuine ard
never 50 q great at but that the ties Of his youth s
he could still hear the note Of the evening bird IN
the groves OF his nativity.
force which though remote alwayS retains ret s Us o
An1 SO Nv % atood % in that giant1ike reposs
that disting guished him his fellow men or
mind made him me + forsmSss & aFs % ds Of 5bH EPT Ror
field stood ne felt the benign and sobering IN
rock 70 which he clung in storms tns anG99T asiI
sustained him in defeat and ennobied him in the
hIus shan not say he had his faults for is there
any hope that man will pass through TINS vale oC
tears tears without T viii Te n 10 Is dsss snd pToca them
He not small in anything ne Was o sIqo9 fIgs 1
attitudes and great purposes And as We - Tos9
Ils his form viii stiii be visible and distinct for
such characters built upon c9u5aF[ @ ,+ ana ,I la6 6t t
playthings but the masters OF TIM tine =, -, human
foEgghp oW ION" Can dscoTar. but believe that.
against the havoc and confusion in which SO man. m ~
immoyable ana as long the pyramids against
the rustic of the Egyptian winds
Judge Wendell 2. Stafford was the next speak
er on abraham Lincoln-Wendell Phillips.
Contrast and a Parellel-" He said among other
things:
Lincoln and Phihps-wa5 ever 2 sharpsr con-
fortune. Bits of learning picked out OF oorrowsd
book by the fare OF pineS931I S1se 9oren s long
loose gaqnt qng5ny ngul9 o6 t3eTe 5on f9r Doit
On one side awkwaTdnesS, S TtIo @ bsin udicrous
PlGtre bs1S fscs BESIDE profile cut like cameo
voice that earnestness made harsh or even strGenI
1Fem the 9fs hs and the thrill silver Clarion when
would Here was the simple So.gnstb ttsr ~ Ue s
the magical eIoquence that led Emerson 70 say, Il
secret In one political ambition formed IN boy
hood and followed SUCCESSFULLY through hfe, IN ths
other dedication a cause that sealed every door
OF ofhSe aS tbe responsfbiiity Of power and work
ine with the tools hand slowly and patiently
trSvaTI his large design the other. the great ag-
tator not always seeking to be judicial but PLEAD
ing the cause of the downtrodden laShing the
sIIggard and coward spirs OF his time ana quicken
nBsdience TO the constitution. that voted for the
ETgitiye Slave BILL in the other devotion 20 free
Tetaken cried. My curse upon the constitution Of
r beIIion with the words, IF could save the
Union without freeing a slave. I would do it; my
avowed Acknowledge secession or cannonads 1t
care re n9I nG and unto all the nhabitants thereof
on one side policy that nnally put Us nand 20 me
srscT fatal blow; on the other a policy that
stood by the Union because the Union had CONS
to mean redemption for the slave.
II spoke in Phil1ips's early VOW: I love these
Iftsd treeS v nv baby feet and If God gives me time
enough will make them too pure TO bear the foot
ton 10 the service Of their time The same infexi-
ble allegaTce t9 duty as i tn mas been f % % ~
power where his hand could bless the millions "
led the Young patrician down the side of his
lowest brothers and made him the mighty advocate
of all the weak and wronsed, w no ;.S aSSs % 9o@ ~
bers now that Phillips once faIeq aipT0i II tbey
diffareI tn life9 In death hey are not divided.
The same great benediction of a peoples love en-
lowed nv the blessings of the poor.
Nineteen years later @ fniIpS IN baE s & rotey crowd
,oor dSspised oppressed OF every race and color.
had been a voice-looking their last upon the Sient
was gone. Liberty. ike wisdom; is justified OF au
her children Rich indeed is the S6'6 and that ts, sn1
They equally my own