Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-12
WOMEN MAKE GIFT
TO FREE LIBRARY.
Judge Carey Is the Principal
Speaker al Presentation.


JERSEY CITY. Feb. 12.-Lincoln Cir
Gle No. 3, Ladies Of the G. A. r., Of
this city. last night presented a bronzo
tablet of Lineoiu's Gettysburg grafton
to nc Free Public Library, at Jersey
avenue ana Montgomery street.
The library was crowded with G.. y.
L, men and women. There was speech
making and singing OF national an
1helns. The principal address was by
Judge Robert Carey.
In brief Judge Carey said.
We meet here tonight-just us they
are meeting in all parts of the world
where Two OF more American citizens
can gather together at this tme-to
celebrate and commemorate the happy
event Of the birth of our ideal Amer
lean.
The name of Washington inspires
diSnihed thought and action. The
hamc OF Lincoln arouscs every impulse
to the degree Of passion, and in the
world gallery OF great faces the face
OF honest Abe Will always beam forth
as the greatest OF al Americans.
There Is u chord in The life song
OF lincoln that hnus It's response in
the heart ol the cultured ana the il
%iitefate, The mighty and the loWly, die
fIch ana the poor, the A~neriean-born
and the stranger within our gates. He
typihes to liberty-loving people in all
parts of the world the big brother OF
humanity, and with IL all we feel
everyone feels-not as we feel toward
the heroes of history, but that he is
our W kith and kin. We do not
contemplate him. with awe and reyer-
ence, but rather With the intense feel
ing OF "a deep affection. lie does not
live in our heads. He is enshrined
in our hearts, and the child at school
and the grandfather at the 1fresidc join
together in happy homage at the feet
of d sweetness of character that ap-
peals alike to every temperament and
to every age.
"The test of real greatness is not the
applause of the moment. or the re-
Spouse OF passion TO the power of mere
Whit force, but rather the intense
longing and admiration that comes witt
the reflection Of calm hours for the
things that have been. No better IL
lustration Of this can be found han in
the now classic address at Gettys-
burgh.
From the humble log cabin to the
~ my i4CLioN nc a btdulildI uGltu'ts
atration OF She hopeful opportunities
Of American liberty and our c~iviliza-
tiun. 1t illustrates the fact that, re-
gardless Of origin, there is always a
place here for grit. pluck, ambition
and brains.
abraham Lincoln was q fighter. and
he knew how to fight. and twas bu
natural that the field Of politics should
command his thoughts. When but
twenty-three years of age he was bat
Ting in the arena Of politics. let US
note his Introduction there. He wanted
to go to tho legislature OF his state
ard he did o hesitate TO say so.
Lincoln dared 10 think ANA TO speak
aloud. a compromise could have
stopped the Civil War. The recogni-
tion Of Il Southern -Confederacy would
have prevented bloodshed, but Lincoln
WAS not for compromise. SO different
from the kind OF men who think states
manship consists in the art of lodging
the issue. The war is long since passed,
and now as we look back-as you who
fought with Lincoln look back-would
you have had il different?
'Lineoln died as he lived, with NAL
ice toward none, with charity to all"
and his legacy was peace to his coun-
try, liberty to the enslaved and an in
spring example Of patriotism TO the
world. At Bunker Hill there is a
monument marking the spot where
Lincolns Of orr earlier years fell. In
scrihod on the monument IS q beautiful
thought:
THE blood Of our fathers; let it not
have been shed in vain So nay 1t
be with Lincoln. Let his life not have
been in vain.
"wc cannot hone to be Lincolns, but
we can emulate his virtues. We can
not he the evening star, brit Hike the
other stars. we can each have a glory
and a glitter all our OWN And let MS
remember this. that so long as the
Lincoln spirit dominates our patriotism
the normanence Of our institutions is
safe"