The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1925-02-21
Eloquent and Brilliant Grafton on
the Everlasting Achievements of
the immortal Abraham Lincoln
Delivered at the Wendell Phillips
High School on Sunday Evening
Hon. Alexander Fyfe, President Of the Hamilton
Club, Ably Presided Over the Gathering

the faith and the promise, and demon
strate the justice Of the constitutional
pronouncement, and he reasoned that
man of color was one of Gods
creatures, created by the Divine Mas
ter, made from the same clay and de-
signed upon the same great plan. He
believed in the great theory of equality,
that equality that is and should be the
portion OF every one at his birth, that
knows no distinction for the future
save as they seek and labor to perfect
themselves and apply those talents
which God gave them for the general
good Of all mankind. He reasoned that
those people had eyes to see all the
beauties of nature and the bene6cent
gifts of God to man, that they had
ears to hear the soft signing of the.
winds, the language Of the waves and
the glorious message from God to man
conveying the salvation of the soul,
that they had brain and mind and in
tellect to comprehend, to study and
to realize part Of the Divine plan
and conscience to act and do as the
Master mind dictated, that their hearts
were as tender as any other Of Gods
creatures and that they in a measure
understood and comprehended that
real basic principle in life, the true
love Of mankind, that love which ac-
tuated the sacrifice of the Christ, and
actuated by this thought divine in its
nature, divine in its conception he ad-
vocated and promulgated and was the
factor that put into effect in this land
OF ours the Emancipation Proclama-
ton that freed from bondage the So
called slave and added to nations
strength a great people, and he left to
them the great task of proving to the
civilized world by their own efforts
that his thought was right. In the
progress Of the coIored race Of today
lies the vindioation Of the attitude OF
Abraham Lincoln. This thought Of
Abraham Lincoln reformed the world
and other nations conquering self and
selfish inclinations abolished the term
Slavery" from their national life. How
well have those people for whom he
struggled fulfilled the trust? I but
briefly place in your minds a thought
upon that subject, that a people who
a few short years ago were considered
chattels and akin to the animal grade
by their own efforts administered
through the wisdom Of the Divine
Master, they are bringing into being
and by their own efforts a vindication
Of the acts Of Abraham Lincoln. Over
this broad land of ours are spread
millions in rrmber the descendants Of
the man Of color Of former DAYS, and
throughout the land are great univer-
sites, great colleges and great insti-
tutions Of learning devoted to the adj
vancement Of the man Of color. and
those institutions headed by men Of
their own kind, whose advanced
thought, whose advanced learning and
advanced education are leaving the
seal Of progress upon the people Of
today, and let rs hope upon the future
generations to come. In the House of
Legislature, both in commonwealth
and the nation, these people are taking
the place which their education, their
learning and ability warrants. In the
ranks Of the professions, in the law,
are men Of color, Of thought, Of adj
vanced learning, Of clean and clear
cut analyzation; in surgery and med
icine are men who are adding their
need Of relief TO suffering mankind.
In the marts Of trade and finance are
men Of color who are enterprising,
trustworthy, fair in their dealings and
what the world terms successful men.
In the pulpit are those who compre-
bend and understand the Divine revel-
alton from God to man, and competent
to teach those same lessons. And In
lesser occupations, in all lines Of en-
deavor they are taking an active, re-
sponsibie and permanent part. All
this accomplished III few short years,
accomplished BY individual effort. 1
can only anaIyze from that standpoint