Evening star., 1923-05-23
PICTURES LINCOLN
AS WORLDS MODEL
Ambassador Jusserand Pays
Glowing Tribute at Statue
dwelling.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 23.-The United
States, after the civil war was ready
for a more brilliant destiny than 1t
had ever known before" because II
was strengthened and united, and un-
derstood better from the example of
Abraham Lincoln, .as the great war
showed in our days, the value of dis
interested courage and generosity.
Jules JuSserand, ambassador OF
France, declared in an address yesterday
at the unveiling of a bust of the mar
tyred President in the New York Uni
versity Hall of Fame.
The ambassador referred to the
humble origin of the great President.
whose task was ito perfect the work
Of Washington and make 1t inde-
structible," saying he was "ntted for
a career unique In the history OF the
world. by the forest, the swamp. the
river. by necessity, by the great heart
God had given him, in which courage.
tenderness, humor. an aptitude TO
merriment, an aptitude to melancholy,
lived together, all kept within bounds
by common sense"
These" he continued, nodded a
man, who. fearless by nature and
habit, surrounded from childhood by
the unknown and the unexpected,
would be in after life astonished at
nothing. and who. in his souls soli-
tude. with no one to rely upon, would
rough beginnings. gather informa-
tion by personal experience. silently
think the matter over for himself and
take his own decision.
Concerning the Union, his senti-
ment never changed; his opinion was
When the bond of union gets once
broken everything ruinous to our flu
ture prospects Is TO be apprehended.' l.
Concerning slavery, a friend OF liber-
ty though he was. II took him long
time to become an abolishionist: he
would have preferred gradual aboli-
ton, with compensation to the slave
owners; in. which again his ideas
were very similar to those of Wash
ington.
Decision Immovable.
when, however, he found that
there was no means of preserving the
Union save to solve at all risks the
old standing problems once for all,
his decision became immovable.
His transparent honesty. forcefu!
character and earnestness. natural
eIoquence, master of the English
language. no great that. when he Ia
at his best, one capnot add, sup
press, change or dfsplace a word
without spelling his sentences; his
SnreWQ lnIelllBenC6 OF ildtlcTs po-
liticaI, had raised him from the OBJ
scurity where he lay concealed to
be, on the eve of the most
perilous conflict this republic and
modern democracy had ever had to
face, sixteenth President of the
United States.
What the conflict was. between
opponents equally brave, equally sure
OF their rights, all the world knows.
The future Of democracy depended
in a large measure upon the issue.
Could a republic stand such a test,
survive, form again a Union? 1t did.
owing chiefly to that great heart
God had given Lincoln. to the chiv-
alrous character of Ulysses 8. Grant
and Robert E. Lee, both side by
side Justly honored in these Rails,
and owing also to the equal patriot
ism of the winners and the losers
in the conflict.
Fair to all. just to all, mourning
SO many losses IN battles where
every fighter was an American, the
great citizen who had entered the
war. having hoped to the last that
1t could be avoided, saw the end Of
the storm and, his task fulfilled. fell
the last victim of the cause to which
he had dedicated his life.
"All nations were stirred with hor-
rcr; a hero, a martyr, had disap-
reared from a world the better for
his words. his deeds. his example,