Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1909-01-01

u. 1. fKlDAf JAM
coins birth was In Hardin county. As
village Il was Iut born great. did sst
achieve greatness. hut had greatness
thrust upon It,
Great Memoual IL Washington.
Originally il WAS Intended 10 build
at the birthplace farn Il much larger
aud more pTeieniipuS structure than
that finally decided upon. The reason
for the change was twufuld- first,
HUdgenvillc is rather inaccessinle ana
out of the line of travel: second. It l.
now practically assured that a great
Lincoln memorial will be erected Ia
Washington, in which all the procurl-
bic Lincoln relies will be housed. When
the more ambitious project was cou
tcmplated President Roosevelt suggest
ed that the farm cdilicc should be
known as temple of civic righteous
ness. It is hardly probable ihat thr
structure TO be- erected in the national
capital viii be called Icy So prctenilous
a name. aS IL is not certain that Wash
ingtonianS would know what il means.
Besides, civic Righteousness is hardly
in harmony with the Washington at
mosphere. where the congressional
pork barrel fouriShcs and Legislative
log rolling is the chief Industry.
The tentative plans for Il national
monument To the martyr preSi lent sSsA
many forms. One was for bvHrs
over the Potomac. another included a
great road running from Washington
To Gettysburg, and - third consisted of
open columns ut one of the entrances
to the capitol grounds. with tablets
carrying The most famous of Iinroln's
utterances. More common seuse coun.
sells are now prevailing. however. and
these are for memorial building and
museum which shNll he as simple.
classic. strong and enduring as Lin.
coins own fame.
Year Of Many Centenaries.
There will he many centenaries dur
Ing the coming year, since 1909 gave
to the world more illuStriUus men than
any other in history On its roll Of
honor are such names ats Alfred Ten
nysOn, the most spiritual modern poet !;
William Ewart Gladstone. the British
statesman who was too great to be a
lord; Edward Fitzgerald. the trans.
lator of Omar Khayyam; Charles Rob
ert Darwin, the creator of the evolu-
tionary philosophy; Edgar Allan Poe
the American poet. novelist, critic and
mystic: Oliver Wendell Holmes. the
'Nutocrat;' Frederic Francois Chopin,
the Polish pianist and composer; Jakob
Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn. the Ger
man Hebrew composer aud musician
Frederick \. +. Barnard. the Ameri-
ran educator, scientist and author,
who was for II quarter of Il century
president of Columbia university; John
Stuart Blackic, the famous Scotch
translator, critic and poet: Francois
Certain Canrobert, the French marshal
who commanded in the Crimea and In
the FrancO-prussian war; Kit Carson.
the American pioneer and hero of from
tier romance; Mary COWden Clarke the
most famous woman Shakespearean
scholar Of all time: John 4. Dahlgren
the American civil war admiral who
won Victories along the Atlantic coast
and invented the DahlCrcn gun: Jules
Favre, the French democratic states
man who led the opposition during the
second empire; James Glaisher, the
British pioneer aeronaut. meteoro.ogist
and author: Nikolai G0gol. the Russian
dramatist and professor who wrote
Dead Souls" Hannibal IIamin, Lin
coins first vice president: Richard NJ
Mines. afterward created Lord Hough-
ton, the English p0et and statesman
| who was friend of Yennyson. and
Fanny kemhle, the actress and writer
who was born in England. but spent
most Of her time in America
OF lesser note may lie mentioned
among the celebrated ei,riiteen hun
dred and miners Joseph Addison Alex
ander, the Princeton professor, biblical
scholar and author: William Henry
Bartlett. the English craftsman. trav-
eler and writer; Bruno Bauer, the
German Hegellan philosopher and
nationalist: Park Benjamin, the Ameri-
can journalist and poet; retrus Borel,
the French journalist and man of let
ters. one of the strangest figures ever
seen in literature: John Hill Burton,
the Scotch historian and jurist: Jean
Pierre Clement, the french political
economist and historian. and host
Of others that It would be Il wearincss
Of the flesh even to read. 1t may be
mentioned that jefferson Davis and
Andrew johnson were both born in
the previous year. 1908, johnson miss
ing 1909 only by two days.
In the language Of mysticism II soul
is a star. What Il star shower fell to
the earth in that historic year century
ago. OF all these the very brightest
was Abra ham Lincoln. one of the few
souls of the first magnitude, destined
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