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.Sst III NEW y ORR, Feb. l4.-President
Roosevelt addressed the. Lincoln Club
3sint this city last night. He said:
In: his second inaugural, in speech
L which will be read as long as the
memory Of. this nation endures,
Abraham Lincoln closed by say
ling ::&i y,.,.
" malice toward none; with
charity for all; with tirmness in the
right, as God gives. us to see the
right, Jet us strive on to finish the
work we are in; ." to do all
which may achieve and cherish a just
and lasting peace among ourselves,
and with all nations" ss
Immediately after his reelection he
y had already spoken thus:
The strife of the election is but
human nature practically applied to
The facts of the case. What has o..
curred in this case must ever recur in
similar cases. Human nature will
N not change. In a any future great
national trial, compared with the
men of this, we shall have as, weak
and as strong, as silly and as wise, as
bad and as good. Let us, therefore,
study the incidents Of this as philos.
sophy to learn wisdom from, and none
# of them as wrongs to be revenged.
/ Il I5,if53ss = y Z May not all having COM
Il mon interest reunite in a common
effort to (serve) our common coun.
try? For my part. i have striven and
N shall strive to avoid placing any OBJ.
stacle in the way. So long as have
been here have not willingly planted
3st thorn in any mans bosom. While
FIS am deeply sensible to the high com.
pliment of a reelection, and duly
grateful, as trust. to Almighty God
sSf for having directed my countrymen to
. a right conclusion, as think, for their
own good. 1t adds nothing to my sat
isfaction that any other man may be
disappointed or, panied by the$result.s
/; . May ask! those who have not diff
$sfered with me to. join with me in this
tzsame spirit toward those who have?'
This Is the spirit in which mighty
Lincoln sought to bind up the nation s
wounds when its soul was yet seeth.
ing with fierce hatreds, with wraths
with rancor, with all the evil and
readfnl passions provoked by civil
K; war. SurelyFthis is the spirit which
IN all Americans should show now, when
there lis so little excuse for malice
/! rs or rancor, or hatred, when there is
so&little Of vital consequence to di
4S vide brother from brother.
Lincoln himself. man of South
4 ern birth, did not hesitate to appea
ssi to#the sword when he became salts
fed that in no other way could tllt
s union be saved for high though ht
MI nut peace he put righteousness still
higher He warred for the union; HI
NJ; Swarred to free the slave; and whel
sheswarred he warred in earnest. fo
.&4fit5 Is a sign Of weakness to be half
VA hearted when blows must be strucl;
W. But he felt only love, a love as. deep a!
the tenderness of his great an,
sad heart, for all his countrymen alik'
jim the North and in the South, and h
longed above everything for the da,
when they should once more b
#g Emit, together in the unbreakable bond
Of eternal friendship.
We Of today. in dealing with al
s8s.5 cur fellow.citizens, white or coloret
North or South. should strive to sho,
\: Just the qualities that Lincoln show
ed his steadfastness In striving afte
the right, and his infinite patienc
and forbearance with those who sa,
sH; that right less clearly than he did
mis-. earnest endeavor TO do what wa
best, and yet his readiness to acceJ
the best that was practicable whe
the ideal was best unattainable; hi
nceasing effort to cure what wa
crll, coupled with his refusal to nal,
bad situation worse by ill.judged {
ill.timed effort to make it better.
The great civil war in which Lii
ss8Sscoln lowered! as! the loftiest figul
leftsus not only reunited countl
but a country which has the prou
right to claim as its own the gloi
Won alike by those who wore the blr
and by those who wore the gray, |
those who followed Grant and !
those who followed Lee; for boi
fought with equal bravery and wit
equal sincerity Of conviction; eat
striving for tie light as sit was give
MIN 70 see the light though fl isSno
clear ttos all that the triumph of u
cause pfS freedom and Of the iinis