The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-02-13
ROOSEVELT MAKES
LINCOLN DAY
SPEECH
PRESIDENT ASSISTS IN DE0IcA
TON VI MEMORIAL TO HONEST
ABE" AT HoOGENsVILLE, KY,
YESTERDAY.

Hod9enville, KY, Feb. 12.-The CEN
tenary Of Abraham Lincolu's birth was
observed generally throughout the
United States today but nowhere did
the commemoration exercises com
mand more interest than those held in
this little town Two miles from here
on the Lincoln farm. which has been
purchased by national association,
formed for the purpose, President
Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of Il
memorial building now being erected
by popular subscription to mark Lin
coins birthplace and to protect for
all times the little log cabin in which
the martyr president was born.
The centenary address on this oc-
casion was delivered Ey President
Roosevelt Gen. Luxe Il, Wright. the
secretary of war, spoke on behalf of
the confederate soldiers Gen Grant
Wilson represented the veterans of
the union army and Lincons native
state was represented by Gov. Angus
tus f. Wilson. of Kentucky. Other
addresses were made by Bishop Gallo
way OF Mississippi. and exGov. John
w. Folk of Missouri
Presidents Speech in Part.
The following is the presidents S
speech, in part, as delivered this aft
/ ernoon:
Fellow Cillzene We have met here
to celebrate the hundredth anniver-
sary of the birth of one of the two
greatest Americans; of one of the two
or three greatest men of the nine
teenth century: of one of the great
est men in the worlds history This
rall-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,
we'd to lead his people through the
burning flames of struggle from
watch the nation emerged, purified as
ly fire, born anew to a loftier life.
After long years OF iron effort, and
OF failure that come more often than
victory, he at last rose to the leader
snp of the republic. at the moment
when that leadership had become the
stupendous world d-task Of the time,
He grew to know greatness, buy never
ease success came to him, but never
happiness, save that which springs
from doing we'll a painful and vital
task Power was hls, but not pleas
ure. The furrUws deepened on his
brow but his eyes were undimmed by
either hate or fear His gaunt shoul-
ders were bowed, but his steel theWs
never faltered as he bore for bur
den the destinies of his people. His
great and tender heart shrank from
giving pain; and the task allotted him
was to pour out like water the life
blood of the young men and to feel
in his every fiber the sorrow Of the
women Disaster saddened but never
diSmayed him As the red years Of
war went by they found him ever do
ug his duty in the present, ever fac
ing the future with fearless front.
high of heart, and dauntleas of soul.
nbroken by hatred mistaken by
scorn he worked and suffered for the
people Triumph was his at the last;
and barely had he tasted it before
murder f3rr! him and the kindly,
patient, fearless eyes were closed for
ever *f*
Lincoln saw into the future with
the prophetic Imagination usually
vouchsafed only to the poet and the
seer He had in him all the lift to-
ward greatness of the visionary, with
Ont any of the visionary's fanaticism
or egotism, without any of the Wis
ionarys narrow jealousy Of the practi-
cal man and inability to strive in prac-
tical fashion for the realization Of an
4ueal He had the practical mans
adapt means TO ends; but there was
in him nCne of that morbid growth
cf mind and soul which blinds so
many practical men to he higher
things Of life. No more practical man
ever lived than this homaIy backwoods
dealst but be had nothing in com
IN with those practical men whose
ecnsciences are warped until they
il to distinguish between good and
evil. fail to understand that strength.
ab lity, shrewness, whether in the
world Of business or Of politics. only
serve 10 make their possessor a more
uoxious. a more evil member Of the