The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-13

Maris scribet'-what does the SEA say Ur
write to me? On that memorable Sun
day night, March 9. 1862. the sea said to
Abraham Lincoln, 'Henceforth we shall
be friends; the monitor has become the
master Of the mighty deep.
Mr. Cousins made no illusions to poll
tics except in a single. strong sentence;
Abraham Lincoln was the ideal of Re
publicaniism, and, in my judgment, the
greatest Republican that ever lived. He
sometimes epitomized his political creed
in three terse and simple propositions:
The general internal Improvement sys-
tenn. the national bank. and high pro
tective tariff. He believed that this
country with it's institutions and its mar
kets, and its privileges. belongs to the
people who inhabit it. -
Among the strongest features of the
speech was the allusion of Mr.. Cousins
to Lincolns recognition of the ability
of General Grant. Being himself great,
Abraham Lincoln was a judge of great
ness. Therefore. the greatest military
genius of the century did not escape his
keen observing eyes. He saw the army
of the Tennessee with the hope of all
cross a river with no place to embark
and no place to land. He saw the final
triumph at Vicksburg and with the
millions of America he called for General
Grant to take command of all the Union
forces. And within two years from the
time America really knew she had a
Grant. the banner of the Stars was shin
ing on the continent, the Stars and
Stripes were floating over Richmond.
The Gettysburg speech was character
lied by the speaker as the matchless
gem of concentrated speech in all our
literature.
Abraham Lincoln saw the final tri
umph He witnessed the fulillmcnt Of
his mission. With stockinged feet be-
fore the White House CRATE, he watched
the Pickering fire on many an anxious
night. just as he had done in old Ken
lucky. and in Indiana. and in Illinois.
in youth time and in early manhood, and
in fancy saw fantastic figures sometimes
droll, amusing him in lonely hours and
then sometimes he saw ambition in it's
selfish form and hated it. He saw the
widowed mother and her hungry child;
he saw the lover dying on the battlefield
for country's sake. and then he saw the
face of his betrothed in agony at home
He saw the charge of cavalry and heard
the crash of death; he saw the steady
lines of infantry starting for the can
noned crest and felt the shot and shell
that mingled with human forms And
there in the last dim, Pickering light. he
saw the emblem OF the Union carried to
the Eternal Heights With sad and hope
full heart. he laid his head upon the pill
low in the mansion where Washington
had slept. At early morn he woke from
troubled sleep from day to day until
twas done-the mission of a mighty
soul"
Closing, Mr.. Cousins said: Abraham
Lincoln was chosen president by the
better judgment of the populace which
his reason had convinced before the
actual strife began. Called again by the
unanimous voice Of loyalty. when the con
test had practically ended. he sat Sc
curely in the seat of triumph and OF
glory when the most tremendous TRACE v
OF fact or fiction in the annals of our
tragic world took him from the vision
OF mankind before their grateful hearts
could have his final blessing and his bon
ediction- Bringing into existence and out
of ii, this great character on the new
worlds stage. it seems as though God
meant to signalize and emphasize the
light Of virtue and intelligence. so He
ended with tragedy and darkness. But
surviving tragedy. rising out Of darkness
and OF death. like a massive and com :
handing monument forever visible in the
armament Of enduring fame. there shines
this new worlds intellect. composed
-magnificentIy and exquisitely
great