The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-06-04
THE BLUE AND GRAY
WITNESS UNWILLING
OF LINCOLN STATUE
VAST CROWD PRESENT AT HoDe-
ENvlLLE UPON THIS
OCCASION.
SISTER.IN.LAV PULLS STRING
Henry Watterson, Noted Rebel Editor,
Is Orator Of the Day-Rabbi Enc
low Offered the Prayer-chief JUS
tiee on Program.

HODGENVILLE, KY, June with
Robert T. Lincoln, Henry Watterson.
Chief Justice Edward o'Rear and 9TH
er distinguished citizens present, the
Weineman statue Of Abraham Lincoln
was unveiled in front of the court
house by Mrs. Ben Hardin Helm, sis
ter-lin-law of Abraham Lincoln.
The crowd was larger than that
which assembled when President
Roosevelt and others participated In
the ceremonies attending the laying OF
the cornerstone of the memorial hall
on the Lincoln farm. Hundreds Of
school children and Confederate and
Union soldiers waved flags and crowd
ed about the bronze statue of the
martyred president.
Henry Watterson was the principal
speaker of the day. He was preceded
by John NJ Atherton and Chief Justice
O'Rear of the court of appeals, and
followed by Hon. K. ]. McDermott of
Louisville.
After Miss Florence Howard recited
the Blue and the Gray" Mrs. Helm
of Louisville, Mrs. Lincoln's sister,
pulled the cord which caused the huge |
American flag covering the statue
to fall and the heroic bronze likeness |
of Lincoln clustered in the sunlight.
The speech of acceptance on behalf
of the state was delivered by Gov.
Wilson. The thousands of persons in
the public square cheered, the band
played America and hundreds of
school children, dressed in white and
carrying flowers, joined in singing the
national anthem.
Rabbi H. G. Enelow of Louisville,
read the invocation and was followed
by Former Chief Justice E. C. ORear
of the Kentucky court of appeals, who
spoke on the Kentucky Pioneer" His
address in part was:
while every country, of necessity,
had its first inhabitants, the name and
character Of the pioneer are believed
10 belong peculiarly to the settlers Of
America. The Roman legions, Charlie
nagne and the Franks, Atilla and the
Huns, William the ConQuerer and the
Iormans, Peter the Great and the
Slavs, went en- masse; they invaded
~ arms a new country and divided It
Imong the successful captains.
But the real settlement of America
vas as radically different from these,
md all others of which we have rec /
I'D as were the character and achieve
nents Of the immigrants. America
vas never conquered by soldiers.
THE pioneer did not write history.
he recorded events of his life are
therefore, necessarily meagre. The I
ioneer is now almost, If not entirely,
xtinct as class. There is no longer :
west and the pioneers course is T
IN. His language was meagre or /
imaginary. The speech of the Indian
bounded in rhythm, that Of the pho
eer is blunt fact The former called
Is streams by names, scarcely less
leasing to the ear than must have
zen their primitive beauty to the eye.
he Susquehanna, the Allegheny, the
lwanee may or have not meant to
e Indian what Bear Creek. Salt Riv-
or Hell-For-Sartin did to the pio- fir
'er. The Indian had leisure, abun- he
mt leisure, to cogitate upon names. ms
le pioneer had too many pressing
oblems, including that of the IN
ans, to admit of such pastime. ne
Most of all that has been said ap- is
es as well to the wife as to the man. fro
he was hero, she was a true mr.,
roine. When he was soldier, she
IS sentinel. She was, too, the arti-
q Of the settlement COZ
The spirit which was In the pio- to
er is today the dominant national the
rit; the spirit of selfreliance. The her
known does not brighten 1t: the
tried does not daunt it; the SEEM
ly impossible does not stop it." sue
Ion. Henry Watterson was given q lift!
rus of cheers when he arose to up
ak and his address was given close g
ention.