The Greeley tribune., 1911-02-16

clouds hung heavy over the country.
he closed his first inaugural address
with these words:
..In your hands. my dissatisfied
fellow countrymen. and not In mine.
Is the momentous issue OF civil war.
The government will not assail you.
You can have no conflict without be-
ing yourselves the aggressors. You
have no oath registered In Heaven to
destroy tho government. while
shall have the most solemn one to
preserve, protect and defend 1t.
am loath to close. We are not
enemies, but friends. The mystic
chords OF memory. stretching from
every battlefield and patriot grave
to every living heart and hearthstone
all over this broad land will yet
swell the chorus OF the Union when
again touched. as they surely will
be. by the better angels OF our ma
ture."
The first term passed. his second
inaugural is delivered to the people
! and the end OF the civil struggle Is
close at hand: but the saver Of his
country must be a sacrifice on the
altar. and the hearts OF the people
are wrung with anguish on this April
day in '65.
In his home city there is great
sorrow, as the funeral train arrives
from Washington. after the 1.500
mile Journey The body lay in state
day and a night and $4,000 people
viewed the remains. May We pause
to read the funeral Grafton OF Henry
Ward Beecher:
-Four years ago. oh. Illinois. we
took from your midst an untried
man from among your people. Be
hold! we return to you mighty
conuuerer, not ours any more. but
the nations. Not ours but the
worlds. Give him place. oh ye
prairies. In the midst OF this great
continent his dust shall rest. sacred
treasure to the myriads who shall
come as pilgrims to that shrine to
kindle anew their zeal and patriot
ism. Humble child OF the back
woods, boatman. hired laborer.
clerk, surveyor. captain. legislator.
lawyer, debater. politician. orator,
statesman, president. saviour of the
republic, true Christian. true man.
We receive thy life and its immeas-
urably great results as the choicest
gifts that have ever been bestowed
upon US: grateful to thee for thy
truth to thyself, to us and to God;
and grateful to that ministry OF
Providence which endowed thee so
richly and bestowed thee upon the
nation and mankind"
The procession in Springfield was
two miles long as the body OF our
first martyred president was borne
to its last resting place in Oak Ridge
cemetery. 1t was first placed in the
receiving vault. then in temporary
vault; later in the crypt OF the ma
tional monument.
The monument was built by a
commission OF fifteen men. who conl-
prised the Lincoln Monument asso-
citation. The monument Is OF brick
and Quincy granite. on a square base
fifteen feet high. The designs OF
Larkin G. Mead of Florence. Italy.
were accepted. Ground was broken
for It in 1869 but 1t was not dedi-
Gated until 1874. 1t stands on a
high ridge occupying about nine
acres OF ground. In the catacomb are
the crypts in which rest the bodies
of Mrs. Lincoln, two sons and one
grandson. Abraham Lincoln. son OF
Robert T. Lincoln. In 1877 an at
, tempt was made to rob the vault, so
at Robert Lincoln's requcst-after
, the body of Lincoln had been remov-
, ed thirteen times from its original
resting place-it was placed. In
, 1901. in a cement vault. fifteen feet
below the upper sarcophages. under
/ solid thickness OF cement Of four
or Ave feet. Above the vestibule
, where are the crypts there is me-
mortal hall. which is so full OF rec