Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-05
Memorial Tablet Unveiled on
Board Hamburg American
Steamer Abraham Lincoln
CONTAINS GETTYSBURG SPEECH
Prominent Personases Attend cere-
monies and Deliver E:uIosies ~ Pa
triotie Instructor Of Grand Army
Says Address i. Best Fitted for
Teaching Patriotism.

New York, June 5.-lJnder the aus
pices Of the Grand Army of the Re
public, an interesting ceremony took
place on board the Hamburg American
line steamer President Lincoln at Ho-
iboken this afternoon, when a bronze
Z memorial tablet containing Lincoln's
Gettysburg speech, which had been
placed in position on the steamer, was
unveiled. The speakers included Gov
ernor j. Franklin Fort Of New Jer-
sey; Captain Hebbinghaus. naval at
tache Of Germ many's embassy and Lieu
tenant Commander w. g. Sims, United
states navy; President Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, OF Columbia University;
Mrs. Kate E. Jones, president of the
BWomen's Relief Corps, and Warren Lee
SGoss, national patriotic. instructor Of
Tlehe grand army Of the republic. MT.
Goss said in part:
Patriotic Instructors Address.
.Upon tablets of enduring bronze we
have inscribed Lincoln's Gettysburg
address as the best fitted Of all human
utterances, both for the teaching OF
sentiments of patriotism and for em-
balnling the memory Of those who
fought or suffered or died for the re-
public Today. strong not only IN
preserved and perfected union but IN
our alliances with sister nations, we
have met to place, in imperishable
forE1, Lincoln's great address in the
cabin Of a steamship which will bear
his r1a..ae to and fro between great
and friendly powers.
..By force Of great qualities Abra-
ham Lincoln became the center of an
sherai. epoch in which w1e of the Grand
Army OF the Republic are proud to
have had {. part. Reared in the bosom
0f the great west, a child OF poor
an.l laboring parents, self educated
among the contentious and many
voices of a democracy, pure and prov
erbially honest, without social culture
OF grace, with malice towards none,
ami with charity for all, every blow
against the nation was felt upon his
lgre;Lt manly Heart. Strong in common
sense, acute in his perceptions Of truth,
beautiful In his manliness only, he
was the grandest representative Of the
people that ever stood at the helm Of
STATE. From first to last he was in
ayrnpathetic touch with the great mass
of Americans, Of whom he was so
distinctly a representative that at his
death, Emerson declared: He is the
true history of the American people Of
his time. the pulse OF twenty millions
throbbing In his breast, their thoughts
articuiated Ly his tongue
at can not be said Of Lincoln that
he occupies by accident his great po-
sition in history. Called to the helm in
the midst of the storm, by great quail
ties of heart and brain, OF courage and
devotion, Of honesty and rare mag
nanirnity, he brought our ship of state
safely into port. Thru SANDER ana
malice and ridicule, amid the most ter
srible turmoil and bitterness ever
evoked by civil war, he emerged from
the conflict with his purity unstained.
his integrity unquestioned, and his
greatness more and more apparent as
the years roll on
"Altho with him the safety Of the re-
public was the supreme law he held
no resentments against those who
fought against him. He won all hearts
by his simple goodness, and tho not in
theory a Christian, in. his spirit OF
charity and forbearanc,s he reflected
more Of Christ than. any ruler Of any
time. He was incapable of bitterness.
and In this. doth his greatness most
appear, that having enemies he hated
them not, having defamers he retorted
not
Tho dead he speaketh; the ages
will be his audience; his memory will
be like growing wreath above his
grave, taking root in the soil that COW
ers it. bringing forth leaves and flow
ers perennially.' May we not say OF
him as was said of washington by
the Irish orator: No people can claim.
no country appreciate him; boon OF
providence to the human race his fame
Is eternity, his inheritance creation.