The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-13
CITY ENDS GREAT
TRIBUTE To THE
MARTYR LINCOLN
Stirring Memorial Addresses by
Prof. Thomas F. Kennedy and
Former Indiana Congressman.
SCHOOL CHILDREN RECITE
GETTYSBURG SPEECH
Public Outpouring at Night Cele-
bratiOn Rivals that of
the Afternoon.

With prayer, music. recitation of Lin
coins Gettysburg address and speeches
hX former Congressman Frederick
Lands, of Indiana, and Professor
Thomas F. Kennedy, principal of the
= State street annex of the High School,
the city's official celebration of the CEN
tennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth
came to close last night in the First
Presbyterian Church.
A feature of the celebration was the
bringing together of the oldest and
latest generations, by the presence of
war-worn veterans, ON the stage and In
the front ranks of the audience, and
the recitation by twelve school chill
dren of the Gettysburg address, Six
girls wearing blue zouave caps, and six
boys in soldier caps of Confederate
gray, recited Lincolns masterpiece in
unison. All are pupils of the parochial
school of the Church of the Sacred
Heart.
Alderman jerome T. Congleton pre-
sided st the night session There had
been ali afternoon program in the
church IN which Mayor Haussling, J.
Wilmer Kennedy and John Temple
Graves spoke
After an invocation by the Rev DR..
David r. Frazer and the recitation of
the Gettysburg address Mr.. Landis
was introduced.
Fitting Address by Landis.
There in the West was born a grea.
movement that was to result in saving
the nation said the Hoosier orator, "a
movement born with justice as its
father and mercy as its mother.
THE Union army was God AL
righty's answer to slavery" he lold
his audience at another point, land
Abraham Lincoln was the prophet Of
freedom"
In dealing with Lincoln's life the
young statesman dwelt eloquently on
the influence of his mother and STEP
mother.
There is nothing in all history more
pathetic than the death of Lincolns
mother. There wasn't doctor within
thirty miles and not minister within
fifty miles. With his own hands
Thomas Lincoln hewed the coffin and
dug the grave that received his wife's
remains. There was no religious cere-
mony but the weeping of the little boy
Abe and his sister,
LtncOln's HumOr Mask.
In discussing the humor of Lincoln
the orator said:
Lincoln often laughed because he
could not cry. It was a good mask.
Humor is not a positive thing. Hunor
and egotism do not travel hand In hand
Egotism is absence of sense of hui
NOR.
And then in this strange land, 100
years ago this night, in the depths Of
the wilderness, in a cabin as rude as
the manger that bore the sallilean, He
made king Of human iustice-and the
everlasting father of Us all has mado
no Improvement since lie made Abra
ham Lincoln,
Thomas r Kennedy said in part
Lincoln stands unique in history In
having brought to a successful con-
clusion a great civil war without leav-
Ing a sting of bitterness towards the
conqueror. The memory of Lincoln is
respected in the South today as well as
In the North. The wisdom of some of
his policies may be questioned, but the
integrity of his motives never"
The speaker repeated opinions he
had heard expressed of Lincoln in the
far South. He briefly discussed Lin
coins debate with Douglas and his
second inaugural and Gettysburg ad-
dresses. The latter, he said, was ono
of the four instances in history In
which great deeds have been celebrated
IA words as immortal as themselves
"Born in poverty, Lincoln's whole
life was one of toll. From the day
when o mere boy he was given an AK
to clear away a forest to the day he
was robbed of life by an assassin's
bullet he bore the burden of others.
His policies were misunderstood and no
wsE numerically criticised. Truly
might it be said of him that he suf-
fered persecution for Justices sake
When success did at last crown his
efforts he did not live to enjoy 1t.
The fame of Lincoln will rest not
upon histories written in books or in
scriptions OH brass or stone, but upon
the eternal principles of right and
wrong that he has left as a heritage
to US, his adrniring countrymen."
Following Goes Heroes Beloved
the Rev. r. French Hurley, negro
minister, pastor of ST. Jamess A. M. e.
Church, spoke.
Veterans on PLATFORM; the Committees.
On the platfrom which the pulpit
surmounts were the members of the
joint committee and city officials
and visiting Grand Army men,
among them Acting Department Com
mander William w. Mendell, of Gran
ford; Department Chaplain Abbott,
Past Department Commander Alfred
Atkins and the members of the joint
committees and the sub-committees In
to which they were organized:
Joint Committee, Common Council
and g A. R.-Mayor Jacob Hauss.ing,
City Clerk James r. Connolly, Alder
man Jerome Congleton tchairman), AL
1erman Charles L. Whitfield, Alderman
Emil Wohlfarth. Alderman Charles II.
Gaffeney, Alderman Patrick Ii. Ryan;
CONTINUED ON Second PaEc)