Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-08

FRANKFORT. KY, November g.
While the President of the United States
and a vast assemblage of people. includ-
ing many of those who wore the gray
i'm the conflict between the north and
south. looked on today an heroic bronze
statue of Abraham Lincoln was unveiled
In the capitol building of the state in
which the martyred President was born.
Proof Of a reunited country said
Gov. Wilson of Kentucky, in accepting
the statue on behalf Of the state. lis
made evident In the selection Of Henry
watterson. a Confederate soldier. to for
mally present this image of the great
President to the people Of his native
state. The greatness and the goodness.
the nobility and the sweetness Of Abra-
ham Lincoln are recognized as earnestly
by those who wore the gray as by those
who wore the blue"
Gov. Wilson Accepts. -
Gov Wilson IN accsptins the monu-
urent In the name OF the state. said 1t
would stand IN the capitol Through all
the ages as the central figure, the type
and image Of the pioneers OF Kentucky
and Of all American pioneers. the best
figure and representative Of the spirit Of
our people: an inspiration to Kentucky
for all time, a guardian spirit standing
for eternity in sieepless vigil over our
liberties and our hopes
Gov. Wilson said he thought the choice
of a statue OF Lincoln for the state cap
itol over other outstanding hgures IN
history was inspired" and for the image
Of the war President he gave credit to
James Breckenridge Speed, descendant
Of some Of Kentucky's earliest settlers.
The addresses of President Taft and
Gov Wilson singularly agreed In almost
identical declarations that OF all figures
in national history there Is none that Is
calculated to bridge chasms of sentiment
between sections as Is Lncolns.
President Taft's Address.
President Taft said:
I'VE are met to dedicate in this. the
capital of Kentucky. monument to her
sen, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's parents
were lowly people from Virginia and their
course was like that of many others 1ho
migrated from the Old Dominion into
Kentucky. and then across the river to
Indiana and Illinois Though Lincoln
lived here but eight years, he knew Ken
lucky well. and 1t is most fitting that 1t
should have memorial OF him.
Those who were closest to Lincoln
have said that he was a many sided man,
ana that he gave different Impressions
of himself to different people: that there
were things unexplained about him, a
continual sadness ana gloom tnat p6rv S0-
ed all his waking hours, and they describe
him in tones of mysticism, as IL to make
him greater by removing the lines of his
character.
that Lincoln had the most judicial
temperament of any man In history. He
considered the arguments of his op-
ponents with all the fairness of John
stuart Mill. and preserved that calm
every one that became important, and
in his disagreement with them. he left
nothing more than the application of
an apt story or q clear Eucid-like
demonstration Of error without sting.
With his love of truth. the supreme
trait of his intellect, accompanied by a
conscience that insisted on the right
as he knew II. with q gYeats heart full
OF tenderness. we have the combination
that made Lincoln one OF the two great
est Americans.
Hated Slavery, Not the Stakeholder.
He hated slavery because he had
reasoned out its injustice and its de-
moraliZing effect upon the country and
the community in which II was q legal
institution. He did not hate the slave
holders, and there is not the slightest
evidence he ever had a feeling Of bit
terness toward them as a class. He
knew how the institution had grown,
now IL Hdu DeCOne a part or society,
how closely imbedded 1t was in the
economy of the south, and from the
time when he entered Congress until he
died his mind was bent on problems
for the solution of the diffculty by
which the cancer could be excised and
no injustice done to those whose con-
stitutional rights had become inter-
twined with the hated system and in
terdependent upon It.
Soul Uniting North and South.
The south knows. as the north knows
now that there is no soul that unites
them in perfect amity like that of Abra.
ham Lincoln; the south knows, as the
north knows, that every administration
that removes another cause of misunder.
standing between the sections, or tha,
brings them closer together in any way
is acting under the inspiration OF him
who could love his entire country wifi
undiminished ardor when nearly one-haI,
was seeking to destroy it's integrity
Here then, at a place that knew battle
that knew family dissensions. that knew
bloody conflict, that represented in IN.
sharpest and cruelest way a division o
the sections. here, now that perfect peace
and anlity and harmony prevail, let thi.
memorial he dedicated AS typical Of thu
love which he. in whose memory II 1.
reared, maintained for all Americans
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