The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-08

4 the people the inEEftIttfon OF African
ssiayefy was not "a issue In hi1
honest, enlightened way. Lincoln
declared that II he could preserve
I the Union. with slavery, ne woulu
do It, or without slavery. he would
/ dOeit. or with some free and other
slaves, he would do it The procla-
nation OF emancipation was q war
mcguire purely. He knew he had
no OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and, true
to his oath OF office. he held backas
/ long as he could; but so clear
sighted was his sense OF justice, 50
empty his heart OF rancory that he
wished and sought to qualify the
rigor of the act, by some measure Of
restitution, and so prepared the joint
| resolution to be passed by Congress
/ appropriating four hundred million
dollars for the purpose, which still
stands in his own handwriting
He was. himself a southern man
| All his people we're southerners.
..If slavery be not wrong ne said,
nothing is wrong echofng in this
1.-The opinion OF most OF the Virginia
gentlemen of the eighteenth century
and voicing the sentiments OF thous-
ands of brave men who wore the
Confederate gray. Not less than the
North, therefore, has the South rea-
son to canonize Lincoln; for he was
the one friend we had at court
aside from Grant and Sherman
when friends were most in need.
II Lincoln had lived there would
have been no era OF reconstruction,
with it's mistaken theories, repres-
sive agencies and oppressive legis-
lation. If Lincoln had lived there
would have been wanting to the ex-
tremlsm of the time the bloody cue
of his taking on to mount the steeds
and spur the TANKS OF vengeance.
For Lincoln entertained, with re-
spect to the rehabilitation of the
Union. the single wish that the
southern states-to use his homely
phraseoiogy-''s come back
home and behave themselves" and
If he had lived he would have made
this wish effectual as he made every
thing efectual to which he seriously
addressed himself. Poor insane
John wilkes Booth! WAS he. too
an instrument in the hands of God
to put still deeper damnation upon
the taking OFF OF the Confederacy
and to sink the southern people yet
Hover in the abyss of amiction asa
mumfTfatfon the living Lincoln had
spared us?
/ He spoke OF Lihcoln's teaching
1 OIL
tribute to President Taft, as fol-
flows:
Tragedy walks hand in hand with
history and the eyes of glory are
wet with tears-''With malice to-
ward none, with charity for all
since Christ said blessed are the
Ipeace-makers for they shall be called
the children of Cod has heart of
! man, stirred to It's depths by human
sublime? Irresistably the mind re-
ours to that other martyr of the
ges, whom not alone in the cir
Icumstances OF obscure birth and
tragic death, but OF those in simple
and child-Iike faith, Lincoln so.
closely resembles. Yon lowly cabin
which is to be officially dedicated on
tomorrow may we'll be likened to,
the maiger of Bethlehem, the boy,
that went thence to God-likei
destiny, 20 the Son Of God, the
Fathe Almighty, of him and of US
all. HSOr. whence his promoting ex-
cept from God?
There are utterances of his which
read like rescripts from the sermon
on the mount Revived even as the
Man Of Galilee, slain, even as the
Man Of Galilee, yet as gentle and as
unofrending, a man who died for
men! Roll the stone from the grave
and what shall we see? Just an
American The declaration OF In
dependence his confession of faith,
The constitution of the United
States his ark and covenant OF lib
erty. The Union his redoubt, the
flag his shibboleth. Called like ono
OF old, within a handful OF years he
lrose at a suprme moment to supreme
command, fulfilled the law of his
being, and passed from the scene an
iexhalation of the dawn OF freedom
we may still hear his CHEEKY voice
bidding us be OF good heart, sure
THAT right makes might entreat'