The National tribune., 1910-03-10
OBJECTS TO LINcolN's PICTURE.

The Southerners who insist that they
are as loyal as the people OF the North,
and that the Confederate veterans vie
with the Grand Army of the Republic
in their enthusiastic devotion 10 the old
Flag. will receive a rude jolt in the &c
ton of Sterling Price Camp. United
Confederate Veterans, OF Dallas, Tex.
The feeling OF these veterans. whom ge
can imagine from the name of their
Camp to be mainly of that nondescript
horde which followed Sterling Price IN
Missouri, have been stirred up by the
Board of Education authorizing the por-
trait of Abraham Lincoln to be hung in
one of the public schools. The Camp
proceeded to throw a fit. and unani-
mously adopted the following resolu-
ton:
Whereas this camp Is reliably in
formed that the picture of Abraham
Lincoln has, at the suggestion Of the
Mothers Club Of Colonial Hill School in
this city, been placed on the wall Of
said school building, much to the NOR
tification and chagrin of the majority
of the patrons of the school; be it re-
solved,
II. That the Historical Committee of
this Camp call upon the School Board
of the city of Dallas and ascertain if
said picture was placed there by con-
sent of said Board
"2. That said School Board be re-
queSted 10 enact such regulations as
will prevent the introduction, use or
honOring of the picture of any person.
living or dead, being placed on the
walls of any public building where our
children assemble, or the reading or
recitation of any literary production
which magnifies and hOnors those who
sought our humiliation or ignores and
abuses the virtue and honor of those
who have made the Southland the syn
onym of patriotism and loyalty to con-
stitutional liberty. and that the COM
mittee report at the next meeting"
Now, we cannot understand the Ian
guage used in this. Why any Ameri-
can. no matter what his attitude during
the war was, can view with "mortifica-
ton and chagrin'' the picture of Lincoln
in public school building is beyond
comprehension. No matter what ones
politics may be, the unanimous senti-
ment not only of all right thinking
Americans, but of the whole civilized
world, is that Abraham Lincoln was the
greatest man that our race has pro-
duced in the thousand years it has been
the center of the stage of history. Ster-
ling Price Camp only condemns itself
by hurting these words of abuse against
the united opinion of all right-thinking
men and which opinion everyone is only
too glad to express. Further, when
Sterling Price Camp says that this mag
nifies and honors those who sought our
humiliation" it is absolutely untrue. No
one wanted the humiliation of the
South, and least of all Lincoln. From
the very first to the last he endeavored
to spare the feelings of the South even
while waging determined war upon
them, and. no word or act of Abraham
Lincoln can be cited by anyone which
was dictated by unkindliness to the peo-
pie of the South. From first to last he
was the embodiment of malice toward
none and charity for ALL" and to the
day Of his death he breathed gentle
peace toward the men who were wick
edly assailing the life of the Nation.
Sterling Price Camp is injuring the
South inestimably by sending out this
wanton stuff as indicative of the temper
of that section of the country.