Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-30
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ritorial extent, and if large, that lasted
for but a brief period after the time of
their organization, as was true In the
case of the Roman republic. And we
were to prove by our success or our
failure here on this continent whether
self-government by the people, for the
people, of the people, should be pos
sible, should continue on the face of
the earth.
when you warred for the Union of
the American people, you fought for
the abolition of slavery throughout the
whole world. for it fell everywhere
when 1t fell here.
Every re~actionary. every despot,
every believer in an oligarchy, every
man who condemned and despised DEM
ocracy throughout the world wished
you to fail. He wished you to fail, not
that he cared n more for our oppo-
nents, but because he wished Ill to
both Of you, because he wished to see
this country become helpless and a by
word and a kissing %reproach among the
nations of mankind.
Blu we are here today-it is not my
fault, but l am placed where you can't
all hear meant we today w the SUI
preme debt that we do owe to these
veterans in the Civil War because
there isn't one man of us here who
could wall. with his head high, as he
now carries IL, II II hadn't been for
deeds done by the men of the dark
days from 81 to "a.
81 believe with all my heart in peace,
and In arbitration as a means of get
ting peace, as long as you get righteous
ness with the peace.
Whenever conflict comes between
war n righteousness ] am loyal to
the foundation of the Republic and
stand for righteousness.
"I wish to call your attention to the
difference between the struggle of war
in 81 and in '76, They were struggles
undertaken in the name of liberty and
between good and evil.
Study the speeches of Abraham Lin
coin, study his writings. In these
speeches and writings you will find
that he appeals ten times to his fellow
citizens in the name of their duties ~
once where he appeals to them in tn
name of their rights.
You will find that he dwells on duty
and that he is talking all the time OF
duty and how to perform 1t.
That vas as true of Washington as
ii was of Lincoln. Washington real
ICED, as Lincoln, that to insist only
upon our rights and to fail to perform
our duties we would go down to the
bottomless gulf of national infamy and
mischief.
1T is a good thing for us to come
together to commemorate Abraham
Lincoln. to commemorate the deeds of
the men who half a century ago
marched to the aid of the union and
against slavery. 1t Is a mighty poor
thing II we coniine ourselves only to
praising the men of the past and do
not emulate the deeds of the present.
Let us face our work, our duties of
the day in the spirit in which these
men of the past based their duty. Dur
duties were easy and simple a genera
ton ago, and 1t is our duty to act In
the spirit that of the great past was
done.
eve have got to be aware of two at
titudes-the attitude of failing to live
up to the spirit of the past and the
attitude of refusing to make any
changes simply because they made nc
changes in the past.
Those men of the French revolu
ton thought only of their right and
not of their duty. and they spoke tn
the people only of the rights, and not
of their duties. That is what made
the difference between the French
revolution and the Civil War.
Lincoln pleaded with his country.
men TO ever and always remember their
duties and to remember that what had
to be done was for the good of ths
nation. and that. however bitter this
! atonement might be, they had to drink