The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-12

forty-three years age, they were today
made of the official representatives or
Newark in the eulogy paid by the city
to the great-hearted statesman.
They met in the First Presbyterian
Church this afternoon and will as
semble again tonight. with the local
leaders of a later generation. Their
presence, as part of the official pro
gram, frail and with the added weight
OF more than two-score years upon
them since they last laid Town their
arms, bore a tribute more eloquent
than words Of what Abraham Lincoln
fought for and Of the country's travail
during the days of his leadership.
Address of Mayor HaussIine.
The Rev. William T. Abbott. of As
bury Park. a lifelong friend of Uriah
seely. a veteran of the G.. A. r., whose
yigor has been little Slapped by the
struggles of war or the forty years
peace succeeding, opened the official
celebration of the city with prayer He
was succeeded by Mayor Jacob Hauss-
ling, whose address OF Introduction
3 follows:
Fellow Offensive assemble here to
day to pay honor TO Abraham Llneoln;
wears ago. 1t would not be appropriate
for me to attempt any extended ADDRESS
upon this occasion. But II seems TO me 1
might call attention TO one feature of the
career of Abraham Lincoln which shonia
serve to encourage all of us TO our BEST
effort, whatever may be the dlnlcultles OF
our particular station in life.
This man was born to poverty he nhu
no facilities for or encouragement to ea9-
cation; he was constantly misunderstood
miajudged, opposed and reviled, and even
those upon whom he had to place reliance
distrusted him. Yet he surmounted all OF
Ills difflpDlfiPg achieved the hiHheSI nOuDI |
that the world knows. and won for him
self an imperisllable place in history. In
all of his thought and action he was es-
sentially and typically American. He
was always moved by love for the people,
aud in them his confidence always reposed.
1t fell to his lot to be the leader OF one
section OF the country in the greatest CiVu
War the world has ever known, and yet
his name today Is Ievered as tenderly
in the section which his conscience led
him to oppose In that conflict.
Newark shares the feeling OF love for
mon to our whole united country. Many
of our boys In blue, some OF whom are
with US here today, had the privilege OF
seeing him during the war. Some of our
citizens were honored in that period. by
being called to advise and counsel him.
There are stlll many of us who reconect
the feeling Of sorrow that prevailed when
the funeral train bearing the body of the
martyr President came slowly through, our
city after the aesassin's bullet had done
It's work. 1t is therefore eminently fitting
that Newark should Join in the observance
or this occasion, and should DO her part
ter OF Abraham Lincoln, that they may
serve as n lasting example and inspiration
to those who come after US.
John Temple Graves Speaks.
John Temple Graves, of Georgia. one
Of the South's leading men and most
brilliant journalists, followed with an
eloquent address. Mr.. Graves chose
as his theme, "On to Richmond with
the Lincoln Way"
Instead of leading from Washington
to Gettysburg the Lincoln way" pro-
posed by Congress, the speaker thought,
would lead from Washington to Rich
mond, at once typifying the popular cry
OF Lincoln's time and the reuniting of
the North and the South.
ION to Richmond was the battle
cry of Lincoln's administration" he de-
clared. IA thousand millions of money
and a half million lives were poured
out to emphasize that cry. 1t was the
way of war, the way of peace, the way
to a forever united country. Meade n
Mcclellan and Burnside and Thomas
and Sheridan and Grant were hurried
in turn with their embattled legions
against that stormswept and heroic
way.
but there is a better direction for
the Lincoln Way than to the blood
stained heights of Gettysburg-a line
richer in suggestion, ripper in inspira-
ton, infinitely more significant of the
majestice purpose and achievement,
and of the beneficent and f~ar-reaching
end of Lincoln's life.
"And when the soldiers of Grant were
~hivouacked at last in the Confederate
capital, the first and last war between
the States was ended forever. Thu
greatest of republics consecrated in a
baptism of blood the pledge of ever
lasting unity and the union which Lin
coin loved above life or death or slav-
cry or dogma. was born into eternal
and illustrious life.
IF Lincoln lived today his long
prophetic finger woalld point the way
not to Gettysburg-but to Richmond.
Linking the radiant capital of our
common country with the siege-swept
capital Of ~Dixie-unfting the old South
that was and the new South that is
with the great republic that shall be
forever. Across the Potomac of his
toric memories, and over the Kappa
hammock, through all the fateful battles
Of that civil grapple, to the last capital
where the f1nal bugle blew perpetual
.truce-that is the wa which the re-
pubiie's martyr President would point.
From Washington to Richmond. The
Great White Way of Peace! The Lin
coin Way!"
J.. Wilmer Kennedy's Tribute.
With Lincoln" as the subject, j.
Wilmer Kennedy delivered the follow
ing address:
No one can survey the life Of Abraham
lincoln without being struck by the dra-
matte character of its Incidents. The
laws of dramatic art require that drastic
action shall take place on a world stage,
ssither historic or intellectual, and that the
action shall spring from tine Hottest mo-
lives and end in far-reaching result, and
that the portion of life therein portrayed
shall be eolored by incidents of a striking
character.
The tone is powerfully moved by the
trust running through the life of Abraham
The squalid. windfowless cabin
that was his birthplace in the wilderness
of Kentucky, and the exalted position of
ruler of a mighty people during the most
critical period OF their existence--the dis
dance from the PEASANTS hut to the