The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-13

ana the aecetfutnees y& 1<1rs S1S&@e ed that every truth has these or other clficulfies to contend with. But a truth may be so clearly stated that It viii commend itself to anyone who has not some special reason Tor reiectins
 Objection te slavery.
 No one has more clearly. stated the fundamentl objections to slavery tnan great advantage over his opponent in being able to state those objections frankly. for Judge nouglas neither ae- in nstitution--hls plan embodied com promise and he could not discuss slav- cry upon its merits without altenatlns either. the slavs-owner or the anoii-
 Brevity Is the soul of wit. and q part of Lincoin's reputation for wit lies In his ability to condanse great deal into a few words. He was epi- not necessariIy an originator of the ed Into the form of bullets has It's eff fectiYeness increased. so thought may ly increased by being moulded Into from that the eye catches and the me- mory holds Lincoln was the spikes man of his party. He gave felicitous expression to the thoughts of his iol-
 His oettysburg speech Is not sur pAssed, if equalled h beauty, sifnpllci- ty force and appropriateness by any speech of the same length of any ian. sioauence, elegance. and condensation as an orator on that speech alone.
 He was apt in ilinstsation-rno ssa snils ons srssn s,s 'S from .yar9ssy sDsas iGsy fs ashes $ wanted to present. He did not speak oyer the heads of his hearers and yet There is strength in simplicity, and Lincoin's style was simplicity itself.
 He understood the power of the in- terogatory. for some of his most pow questions. Of all those who discuss ed the evils of separation and the ad- yantaees to be derived from the pre- serwation of the union no one eyer solu and when referrrlng to the pos- sibIlity of war and the certainty of peace some time. even if the. union was divided he called attention to the IacI he dealt with. and then seeked. Can enemies make treaties easier than friends can make lawsT'
 He made freduent use of Bible lau- guaEe and of Illustrations drawn from Holy Writ. It Is said that when he was preparing his Springfield speech in 1888 he spent hours trying to md that dofninated his entire career. name iy. that republic could not per- rnanently endure half free and half slave. and that finally a Bible passage dashed through his mind and he ex- claimed, I have found it--"A house divided against itself can not Stand.' and probably no other Bible passage eyer exerted as much Influence as this one in the settlement of great controversy.
 | have enumerated some not all--but the more important--of his charac- terIstics as an orator and on this day thoughts of this audience away from the great work that he accomplish shed as a patriot. away from his achieve ments in the line of gtatecraft. to the means employed by him to bring be- fore the public the ideas which attract sd qttention to him. His power as g public speaker was gthe foundation ot 4is success and while t ts obscured by the superstructure that was reared upon it, 1t can not be entirely over. looked as the returning Anniversary of his birth calls increasing attention to the widening influence of his work. With no military career to dazzle the eye or excite the imagination with no public serwice to make his name familiar to the reading public. his elevation to the Presidency would have been impossible without his oratory. The eloduence of Demosthenes and Cicero were no more necessary to their work and Lincoln deserves to have his name written on the scroll with theirs.