Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-30

cure place in the respect and esteem of
the community. In his life career the
army service was, measured by time, a
brief episode. But it left, in his case
as in countless others, a deep and last
ing impress upon the character of the
man. Army associations and reminis-
cences held a prominent place in his
thoughts, and a gathering of old COM
rades was to him as dear and familiar
as a homecoming. He was a charter
member of Lincoln Post, of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and TO him, as
to them. Abraham Lincoln was not
merely President and commander-in-
chief-he was kind father and comrade.
A Long-Cherished Purpose.
1T was a cherished purpose of Mr..
Van Horns later and prosperous years
that a suitable of Lincoln
should be erected in this city. dedicated
in memory of this Grand Army post.
The donor was a modest and unos-
~tentatious man; he would not wish
that any eulogy of himself should be
here spoken. His message Is ade-
quately conveyed by the silent bronze.
The statue speaks, and will SPEAK,
to many men with many voices. One
ihidJ iiOt OVAllAuClitlJ illtt PIC llS iACoAA-
ing for another, but to ME it seems
that the artist has pictured the great
President alone with his thoughts, not
far removed from the hurry and hustle
of his environment, but for the mo-
ment undisturbed. During a stroll
along some secluded path for rest Of
the mind n exercise of the body he
has paused here and seated himself
In tInafItIi1d nnulinant nnco RYAN In
this of abstraction some of
the manifold duties Of Office obtrude
themselves; tho sense of care. OF r.
sponsibility, of burden, back;
the problem of the hour insistently
claims attention; the lines upon the
face deepen, the pensive look comes
into the cavernous eyes; the rapt spirit.
oblivious of the wearied frame, searches
for the proper solution; as yet nc sat-
isfactory answer has been found. but
the FAC manifests a serene confidence
in the ultimate triumph of the cause
to which this life is dedicated, founded
upon the righteousness of that cause,
the good sense. patience and patriot
ism of his people. the courage and de-
votion of his soldiers and sailors, and
the guidance of Divine Providence.
Lincoin and His boys In Blue.
I'VE may be sure that at such a time
his thoughts reached out to his beloved
Boys in Blue; that his minds eye re-
called them, as with flushed faces and
kindling glances they swnrined into
Washington. responsive to his calls for
volunteers, M singing. We Are Com
Ing. Father Abraham, Three Hundred
Thousand Strong;' that he ollowed
them through march IND campaign and
battle; that he suffered with them in
fever camp and in hospital, and
yearned over them in Libby and Ander-
sonville; that his anxious regard went
out to the sick and wounded veterans
that so often passed through Washing
ton on their way to nome n friends;
that his saddened heart recalled the
countless new-made graves upon many
a Southern hillside, and that his pro-
phetic spirit, passing over the din and
turmoil of the time, and the horrors OF
the war, looked forward to that time
when peace should once more abide,
peace with universal freedom; that
he trusted, under Providence, to the
passing years to bind up the wounds
and heal the broken hearts; that he
may have foreseen hat the disbanded
hosts OF war, of the Blue and also OF the
Gray, besides restoring a great and
incaculable force and yirility to the
productive manhood of the nation,
would perform even a greater serv-
Ice in lessons of seif-sacrifice and
patriotism taught to later generations;
that the graves of the soldier and sailor
dead throughout the land would moi
be forgotten nor neglected, and tina
year after year, on such a day al