The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-16

Joseph w. Folk of Missouri; its inde-
fatigable secretary, Richard Lloyd
Jones' who had active charge of the
arrangements for today's ceremonies,
and other officers and members.
Man Who Saved Cabin Present.
A prominent figure in the crowd of
distinguished men at the ceremonies
was Robert J. Collier of New York, to
whom the country owes the preserva-
tion oa the cabin in which the great
liberator was born. In 1860 the cabin
was removed from Its original site to
another a mile and a half distant, near
Davenport. There it served as a spring
house until the early eighties, when it
was bought by an enterprising show
man and carted around the country to
serve as an attraction at worlds fairs
and elsewhere. From this ignominious
fate 1t was rescued by Mr.. Collier. The
outgrowth of his efforts to preserve it
as perpetual memorial for the nation
was the Lincoln Farm association.
whose labors viii take concrete form
in the marble memorial which will be
built around and over the shack in
which Lincoln was born.
Acting as escort for President Roose-
welt and lending very picturesque
touch to the occasion were the mem
bers of the Louisville post of the Grand
Army Of the Republic and the mem
bers Of the Louisville camp of the
United Confederate Veterans. The
mingling of the blue and the gray on
this occasion elected from President
Roosevelt many expressions of delight.
The Men Who Spoke.
The exercises at the Lincoln farm
began at noon. The opening address
was delivered by Ex-Governor Folk,
who spoke on "The Lincoln Farm AS
sociation." He was followed by Gov
ernor Wilson, whose theme was "Lin.
coins Mother State" Then came Pres.
tdent Roosevelt, whose "Lincoln Cen
tennial Address was received with
earnest attention and at its close with
great applause. The presidents sue.
cessor as orator was Secretary Wright,
who spoke for '"The Confederate Vet
eran." Last on the list Of speakers was
General James Grant Wilson, the well
known writer and orator, who spoke
for "The Federal Veteran" The lay
ing of the cornerstone followed the ad
dresses.
President Roosevelt spoke as follows
We have met here to celebrate the
hundredth anniversary of the birth of
one of the two greatest Americans; OF
one of the two or three greatest men
of the nineteenth century; of one
of the greatest men in the worlds
history This rail splitter, this boy
who passed his ungainly youth in
the dire poverty of the poorest of
the frontier folk, whose rise was
by weary and painful labor, lived to
flames of struggle from which the
nation emerged, purified as by fire,
born anew to a loftier life. After long
years of iron effort and of failure that
came more often than victory, he at
last rose to the leadership of the re-
public at the moment when that leader
ship had become the stupencous world
task of the time. He grew to kn(W
greatness. but never ease. Success
came to him, but never happiness, save
that which springs from doing well a
painful and vital task. Power was
his, but not pleasure The burrows
deepened on his brow, but his eyes
were undlmmed by either hate or fear.
BIS gaunt shoulders were bowed, but
his steel thews never faltered as he
bore for burden the destinies of his
people. His great and tender heart
shrank from giving pain. and the task
allotted him was to pour out like wa.
ter the lifeblood Of the young men
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