The Denver star., 1914-03-14

study OF the continuance OF Abraham Llncons
in history after his DEATH
The emancipation proclamation said the pastor. 'ony
freed the slaves of disloya and further
than the conditions of would permit. The
naming loyal the readmtted reasonable could
still claim slaves by sanction of the National and State Con-
stitutions. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendment together with the Civil Rights Bill per.
manenty broken from off the limbs of human beings in the
United States But unshackled limbs did make eemen.
The dignity of the human soul implies freedom
responsibility discharge obligations and in dem
ocratc the right of suffrage.
"All this plus to the emancipaon proclamation owed
large part its initiative aud still larger part promotonal
vigilance Lyman Trumbul Lncons colleague from Hi
whose first the United States Senate
the result Abraham Lncolns magnanmous withdrawal of
Ibis name of his friend then Trumbull
the Senate the first time by single Any ef-
fort put between you and idle the wind
wrote LAWYER Lincoln Trumbull colleague
Icuit.
1T is we'll perhaps that January 1863 the date which
the proclamation into effect should become in the
iular the pivotal point love graft
enthusiasm and the devotion of the friends of be
lty should gather. 1t dramatic be
annual festivals and deepening celebra
tions. But it is Lincolns memory overlook
his great tieutenansSumne Trumhuil Carl Schurz and
the of them who did picket duty that battle line which
extended bepond AppomattoN
bullets and bayonets had done all they could dc
after the physical struggle then longer. try
ling and oentmes critical battle for freedom really
begun The guns bitter and long and cruel
the sacrifice in blood indeed costly and tragic But this
but the prelude the fifty to follow finished
which the ideas and the backgrounds
of Justice and wherever mects-black white yellow
for the right life liberty and the pursuit
lof happiness in proportion to their merits.
at quite the fashion the descendants of those
valiant leaders in the boodes battle for justice the
shaved deplore the amendments and regret the Civil
Rights Bill and with patronzng concessions admit that
mistake grant the right of suffrage the black
man before he was prepared tor IT, ETC.
who affect logic and claim intelligence point the
dark and troublesome days of reconstruction evidence
this believe that the profounder craftsmanship
ethical vision will that the fathers
nearly right than their condescendng and comproms
sons
"The logic of the situation dem anded it as military
cessty The for freedom not finished at Appomat
tox. The coored did valiant service with his bal
lot But it urged prepared to ntellgeny han
die the ballot.
The ballot is menaced by mental ignorance. but more
menaced by ethical topidy and n the long judgments OF
history men, reaching freedom, less
and order than blinded peudices rising
in armed rebellion against the democracy they proessed
The Amendments and the Civil Rights Bill associated
with ideally and they be approach
ing when the last coward who will be willing sneak to the
ballot box under the mantle of reasonable grandfather
who marched in the of will be dead and buried
the unhoy ingenuity manifested in the State consttu
tons that sought evade defeat these constitutional
amendments will remain be enforced by the enranchsed
white descendants Of slave holding parents. And they will
see to that iterate white and black will be alike
the right of suffrage under the law And that the
white black by the token will be allowed to
exercise the sacred privilege.