The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-08
Pays Eloquent Iribu ar
tyr President
Latters Not
TELLS OF INA
AT a Time When 5eu
Hung Very lev
the Nation


FRANlEFi0EET. 9fy., Soy
Henry Watterson. edtoF
Louisville Courier J6urnal
an address here today on
Lincoln on the occasion of ne
yelling OF the Lincoln
ia1 MI. Watterson,s Or ton
devoted mainly to the per-
the origin. and spiritual lie ara
character OF Abraham
He gave minute account of tie
Lincoln and Hanks families derived
from documentary evidence dis
proved the fa1sehood Touching Fans
coins birth and traced hlB uo6le
qualities Of head ana heart 70 hIig..
mother. In concluding this Iaaleo
he said:
Tomorrow there win assemble
q little clearing ot the wildl cod ~
Kentucky a goodly company
will embrace the greatest and ta-
best OF our time and land The
President and the Chief Jus ice end
the rest viii gather about Ioliy
cabin. whose unheWn Lon ne the
serried battlements OF Eihinors Gayp
prelude to the swelling act a theme
yet more imperial. to conse
shrine. OF him that was boE
the hnal earthly word was spoken
long ago; but. mother % God. alialI
that throng pass down the lIl1s
&nd away without lookins into to
Heaven above in unutterahle lpi
ana homage with the thought q
spirit there which knew IN
world nuught OF splendor ana Dow
and fame; whose SAD iotlt V1q
I've and die In obscurfty, gttue
almost IN penury and sQualots
whose tragic fate It was after she
had lain half a lifetime IN her hum
BILE, unmarried grave. 70 be- pursued
by the deepest, darkest calumny that
,an attach itself to the name oe
woman; the hapless. the fair-hatrsd
Nancy Hanks?
No falser, fouIer story ever
gained currency than that which tnl-
peaches the character OF the mother
II Abraham Lincoln. 1t had never
my Foundation whatsoever. Every
Know fact fatty contradlcts it,
Every aspect OF circumstantiaI ovts
lence stamps it preposteroug lie.
It was a period OF heroic achieve
nent tempered by religious tervcr.
t was a pious. God-fearlng neigh~
,orhood OF simple hard.worling
nen and women DebauChery WR9
Unknown. Double living was in-
possible. Thomas Lincoln ana
Nancy Hanks, as I have! shown. came
Il good people. Historically -
would not matter who were the par
,nts OF Abraham Lincoln any more
han 1t matters that he whom the
English monarch is proud to Cali
lis progenitor was q bastard: bpE
t offends the soul OF brave ana
ust manhood, It should arouse r.
he heart Of every true woman 2
ense of wrong that 30 much ~ g
hadow should rest upon the mem
Try OF the little cabin IN which
yancy Lincoln gave the world IN
immortal son, born in clean, uuehaiy
enged wedlock. nor thought OF faint
II shame anywhere.
Let no one OF those that gather
here go thence without a heart So
ute to the gentle spirit Of Nancy
tanks Lincoln, that maybe, scEIe
where beyond the stars GIacag enc
.ngels OF the choir invisible, VIII
ook upon the scene, serene and safa7
t last in the bosom OF her Father
nd her God!
His story Of the love-Iite o. Linz
oln and his relation with Joshua
Fry Speed. an uncle OF the donnoF
Il this statue, in the early days -
Jpringheld. Ill was ILLUSTRATIVE ana
nterstinE. He said:
It is Of record that he stood closer
o Joshua Fry Speed than 70 any
ther. The ties OF early manhood
Ietween the two were never broken =
20 the end Lincoln could turn 70
,peed certain to get the truth, eqiials
? sure of sound counsel and unssl~
.sh adeltty.
che was one OF those men, sayS
ohm Hay. who seem TO have to
degree the genius oG
rJendahip. the Pythiag, the Pylad eGs