The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-02-13

ophers gift of profound reasoning. Never
since Pericles prepared himself for the
function of craftsmanship by studies un-
der Pythagoras have the affairs of any
nation been administered by a statesman
at once so philosophical and so practical.
Regarding political movements as a
series of natural phenomena, he turned
to their causes for leverage and to their
effects for guidance. He thus did his
work effectively and when the issue of
events came he was in the right place.
He believed, for example, that the agi-
tation against slavery would destroy it,
and while he agitated, his course was
governed by the anticipated result which
was present as directing idea from the
beginning.
Not brilliant man, by any means;
but slow, plodMng, and vigorous
thinker, whose conclusions were as trust
worthy as the processes by which there
were elaborate and toilsome. Tactiturn,
independent and -self-relant, he did his
own thinking, and, though he listened to
everybody who came to tell him what to
do, he never asked anybody's advise or
adopted anybody's opinions. Having
reached his own conclusions, he stood by
them without doubt or wavering. Con-
gressmen brought him their schemes or
policies; he listened to their arguments;
but in the end he acted to his own judg
ment. He had not been in Office many
weeks before Seward discovered to his
amazement that this was Lincoln's adj
ministration, not his. And when Secre-
tary Chase plotted to supplant him in
1864 there was truth in his great COM
plant that the country did not have a
President conferring with his cabinet and
taking their united judgments. Beyond
doubt, Lincoln was an intellectual despet.
For he arrived at his own conclusions by
them into execution. Well for the coun-
try that he did so; for he was an almost
infalhble thinker,
'But craftsmanship, though impossi-
BILE without the gift of straight seeing
and clean thinking, demands other quail
tiles also; and Lincoln possessed them.
Must the statesman be brave and intrepid
in the face of Overwhelming danger? So
was Lincoln. When the heart of the
people was sick at the spectacle
of continued military reverses and
disasters, the President kept them up
with words of comfort and hope and en-
couragement. Brave to endure adver-
sity, he was also patient in awaiting bet
| ter fortune. He knew that though men
are in haste, Providence is sure and the
physical and moral forces of the world
| cannot be baked of their results. So,
while others tainted by the way, he stood
unmoved, supported on the one hand by
faith in the righteousness of his cause
and the strength of the powers maintain
| ing it, and on the other by his own habit
of self-control and his inexhaustible pat
ience, courage and hope. So he became
the leader, the supporter, and the inspir-
er of his people"
The committee in charge of the ar
| rangements for the dinner was composed
of Andrew J. Corceran, George W. Conk-
lin and Chief of Police Benjamin Muir
ply.
The following. composed the reception
committee:-
Mr.. John w. Pangborn, Hon. Gilbert
Collins, Hon. John A. Blair, Mr.. John
A. Walker, Mr.. Charles f. Case, Mr.
John NJ Jones, Hon. Simeon d. Smith.
Hon. Henry NJ. Nevius, Col Charles W.
Fuller, Mr.. Joseph A. Dear, Mr.. George
F. Perkins, Mr.. E. B. Bacon, Mr.. A. j.
Newbury and the officers and Executive
Committee of the Association.
The officers of the association for 1904
are
Harry Louderbough, president; George
L. Record, first vice-president; George
w. Conklin, second vice-president; Mar
madqke TiIden, treasurer; o. II. Lohsen.
assistant treasurer; R4Ssert B. Gray, sec
retary.