The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-13

waiting handrsds surroundins the stallion the Presidents train and when It pulled in. and the distinguished cit- isen slishted. tho ar cracked with cheers.
 when the President and his wife and daughter with Secretary Loeb had sntsred the two ciesed carriages re- sssved Tor thsm and the band and . snsnf had formed at the beEinning of the line, the parade was ready to move on to the cabin cite.
 Following the band and the soldiers. came Goyernor Wilson and his stan. score Of Kentucky.s first citizens in uniform and following these the oen- tenary committee. No traffic was per mitted on the. road during the pas policed by mounted officers. were lined with the -iegtons of the curious
 The parade drew up at the side of tho cabin and the Governor, the Pres tdent. Mrs. Roosevelt. Mss Roosevelt. Mr. Loeb and members Of the centen- ary committee entered the tent to the appianse of it's occupants and took their seats on an improvised platform near the flower manfled cabin.
 Close to this lay the cornerstone of the new memorial temple In It's bed of mortar and derrick was manned. ready to raise the huge stone into place when the President had spread the cement on fts broad side with the silver trowei which lay upon the ros- trufn.
 Silence and something of the sig nificance of the event fell upon the assemblage when the invocation was delivered and following this former Governor Joseph Folk. Of Missouri. morial Association uttered some in- troductory remarks. telling the phr- pose of the association.
 ' He was followed by President Roosevelt who laid the cornerstone, putting into it's receptacle appropriate papers which were sealed by Nicholas KoeniRstein. Of Hodgenvilie. and the stone raised into place.
 The President yielded to Governor Wilson who spoke on behalf of Ken lucky for her greatest son.
 General James Grant Wilson. for the Federal Army, and General Luke D. wright. for the iConfederate Army, then were heard. '
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 secretary Write declared that Lin- coip % ~5elieysd that slavery was curse thus" he added. he was right {" AZ ter speaking of the humble origin and poor opportunities which Lincoln had, of the right Of state cssession. de- olArinG that ''it would be unfair to say that there was q complete uninimity S.ssr sds Dga masoa sas sna Sa'sGs p,xosa line. ]" Secretary Wright said that slavery Twas not alone the sin of the South althouEh It's expiration fell
 h speaking Of the work Of Mir. utterSd no word of oil will or malice
 neon Ss vctor1 PsSP sssP nS apon res . Northern arms he showed no feeling of sanitation; that # he had lived there would have been speedy. union and that "reconstructiob did more to postpons reconciliation than did the
 Alas" exclaimed the Secretary Of War. That the still small voice of moderation and reason was drowned in the angry cries of determined men marshalling for 2 conflict. the magni. and the consequences of which few. If among the combats tens of thousands ness ofN Nhls disfassionate statements whose hearts were touched by his pa thetic cry for peace and yet who. of the time, aillgned themselves under the stress. of circumstances on the one side or the other. tens of thousands of men on both sides dspioring war. lng themselves with their neighbors. It seemed the very irony of fate that so gentle a spirit. so sympathetic and thS stern iosic of HeS events 1s over Srss which he had no control and for which he was in no way responsible, to assume sanxuinary M civil war between ss men of ths same blood and the same tradi-
 .. P.sySsse sSs q ss %.l B,s,sEasssi ss asssssir.o,,on during which be wss President. whilst grief upon his rugged face and wrunE aions of bitterness from his lips. His many acts of personal kindness to southern prisoners and southern sym. pie of the North in his beneficent pur- AS in the progress of the time 1t be. carg1e evident the Union arms would triumph. he eyinceS no o.sc sesling .,rrS Sf sTS- but only and anxious desire to re- store the southern states to their for mer place in the Union and 70 heal would have succeeded in carrying with him q great majority of the peo- was in no way identtfed with the UQHGHg Q04U nut bg ny AAAAl0S ~AeAAAAN 0A doubt; and that there would have fol. lowed speedily the union of hearts is equally certain. <1t was, indeed, ssfsiei, that at the moment when he had reached the point for which he had atriven he should have died at the hands of a hair-hrained actor who waa in on way identified with the Eouth or her people. Still more cruel was was fate to fhs southern people. They shuddered both at the dastardly act of his assassination, and at the disastrous cAnsequences to themselvhs which they knew would follow. The diesire of reconstructiou WAS the ins' evltable result and reconstruction did more to postpone reconciliation than did the. war Itself. It was direful in fla results 10 both sections. and to the ierroea In greater measure if possible than to the whites"
 Trl referring to tue public utterances Of Idncoln during the period of disctis- sion preceding the war, Becretary Wr1Rfat said that nothing had impress cd him more than the singulas clear ness of Lincoln's perception that the responsibility for slavery rested up- on all our people and was burden which should be borne by gall alike a respect for the opposite point Of view and a Amoderation in his posi- tions which when the excitement or the time is considered Is most extraor- dlnary and must command our admira-