The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-16

The Grand Army of the Republic
on January 81 last, held Campfire
J evening as a reception for Governor
Moore and the legislature. Many
were the excellent speeches Of pat.
lriotic nature, and the most interest
ing, that of our esteemed citizen, Col
onel Judson Spofford, of Boise.
The Colonel told Of his visit to OH
National Capitol last year, where he
was delegated by our Governor to re-
present the State at the unwilling of
the Lincoln Memorial, at which time
he paid the following beautiful Fri
butte to Abraham Lincoln:
Representing the People and the
State of Idaho, which State was ere
ated Territory by his executive Or
der, place this tribute to the honor
ed and lasting memory Of the Great
Propounder of Constitutional Law.
"The pages Of history wherein are
recorded his wonderful achievements
are all the time growing and shedding
their luster throughout the world as
they go down the ages.
at has fallen to the lot OF no other
man to maintain the Constitution and
preserve a great Republic which mad
for it's foundation that Constitution.
"He not only preserved this Repub-
lie, but through his far-sightedness
and constancy and determination for
those principles which he knew were
right and just, he freed race from
bondage and made this nation what
it had never been before Though we
had always boosted of it,: The Land
of the Free and the Home Of the
Brave He not only struck the shack
les from four million human beings
but he caused the scales Of inhuman-
ity and injustice to fall from the eyes
of the American people.
Ellis trust was in the Supreme
Ruler of the universe; he had no fear
as to the final outcome Of the Civil
War when he said: 4 do not fear for
it, for this Is Gods fight; and He will
win it in His own good time
No mortal honors may bef1t
The greatness Of his matchless soul,
In living fire his name Is writ
On Fame's untarnished scroll.
No test of spirit, heart or brain
BY him was ever left improved
Nor was his martyrdom in vain
Our Nations Best-Beloved.'
Blanche A. Wheatley.
We cannot read too often the words
which constitute one of the greatest
speeches Of all time,-prodigious in
wisdom, inspiration, and love,-the
simple, brief address delivered by
Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg in
1858:
-Four score and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth upon this
continent new nation, conceived of
liberty, and dedicated to the PROPOSE
ton that all men are created equal.
"Now we are engaged in a great
civil war, testing whether that ma
ton, or any nation so conceived and
so dedicated, can long endure. We
are met on great battlefield of that
war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field as a final resting
place for those who here gave their
lives that that nation might live. 1t
is altogether fitting and proper that
we should do this.
But in larger sense, we cannot
dedicate-we cannot conservative
cannot hallow this ground. The
brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have consecrated 1t
far above our poor power to add or
detract The world will little note,
nor long remember, what we say
here, but it can never forget what
they did here. 1t is for us, the living,
rather, to be dedicated to the unfin
ished work which they who fought
here thus far so nobly advanced. 1t
is rather for us to be here dedicated
to the great task remaining before us
that from these honored dead we
take increased devotion to that cause
for which they gave the last full
measure of devotion-that we here
highly resolve that these dead shall
not have died in vain-that this ma
ton, under God shall have a new
birth of freedom and that government
of the people, by the people, and for
the people, shall not perish from the |
earth"