Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-16
MEMORY OF LINCOLN
Held Under Auspices of Burnside Post,
g. A. R.-General Chaffee
Presides.

There was a large audience at Metropoii-
tan M E. Church last evening, the occasion
being the observance of the thirty-ninth an
niyersary of the death Of Abraham Lincoln.
The services were held under the auspices
of Burnside Post, No. \, Department of the
Potomac, q. A. r., and the meeting was
presided over by Lieut. Gen. Adna r.
Chaffee, chief of staff of the United States
army. Addresses on che life and character
of President Lincoln were made by Gen.
Chaffee and Representative Gardner. The
music was furnished by the Marine Band
1t had been expected that Representative
]. A. Goulden, Representative Charles B.
Lands and General John C. Black would be
present and deliver addresses. but they were
unable to he present.
Rev. H. n. Couden chaplain of the House
OF Representatives. offered the invocation,
after which Gen. Chaffee spoke briefly of
the patriotism and services of Abraham
Lincoln. He mentioned incidents in Lin
coins career indicating the great devotion
of the martyred President to the Union and
his great desire that ali the states might be
preserved as one nation.
Representative Gardner spoke of Mr. Lin
coins policies and the arguments he ad-
vanced in support of them. Mr.. Gardner
said that the question at that time was, II
state desired to go out of the Union. had the
United States government any authority to
compel that state to remain in the Union?
question, he said, upon which there was
considerable diversity of opinion before the
civil war. Today, he said. every school boy
and school girl in the country can answer
the question.
Work to Save the Union.
''Mr Lincoln had but one purpose from
the outset of his administration. said Mt
Gardner. land that was to save this Union.
Men, means and measures were all concen-
trated toward accomplishing that purpose
He referred to Lincoln's utterance. this
country cannot endure half slave and half
free which was made during the cam
paign when Lincoln was candidate for
the Senate from Illinois. That utterance,
said the speaker, did not make Lincoln
senator of the commonwealth of Illinois.
but it made him President of the United
States.
Mr. Gardner quoted extensively and aptly
from Lincoln S addresses to show his attl-
tude toward the southern states before
and during the civil war. He spoke of the
broad Kindness and sympathy of the mar
tyred President, of his prophetic spirit, OF
his patriotism and of his answering de-
votion to the Union he had been elected to
save. Mr.. Gardner's remarks were heartily
applauded throughout. and at the close OF
his address the audience cheered enthusi-
astcally when the speaker said:
To-day the United States has more
loyal hearts than those which beat in the
men who wore the gray and who fought
under the flag of the confederate states
during the civil war;
Following the playing of THE Star Span
gled Banner BY the Marine Band the
meeting was brought to "A close.
The committee In charge of the memorial
service consisted 9iof George s. Benson,
chairman; Jerome T. Johnson. L. Wander
hoff, H. B. Moulton. D. M. Goodacre, A. j.
Huntoon and G. P.Dasis.