Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-10
The Lincoln family.
Fear Of Insurrection Was Rife Soldiers
Posted on Housetops Along Pennsyl-
vania Avenue, Artillery Stationed
Near Capitol Steps-Incidents
of Inauguration Recalled
B as Emancipators 120th
Birthday Nears.

that is his purpose. But now there is
little need for yelled language and
| guarded words. The people are prepared
to listen to Herbert Hoover with far
more sympathy than So years ago they
heard the Prince of Rails.
| Lincoln served the Nation in an epoch
called the period of preservation. Ac-
cording to the announced intention
OF Hoover, he viii inaugurate the period
Of constructive prosperity. And the
| Quaker's March address probably will
| dedicate itself to his views on national
prosperity Optimism viii sound the
keynote of Hooyerism and prosperity
will crystalline its aims. Prom the
| full dinner pail" Mr.. Hoover says, "the
| country will go to the full garage"
Plainly" said the Emancipator, "the
central idea of secession is the essence
Of anarchy" Consider those two views
and you will arrive at a mirror to the
Republic in the years 1861 and 1929.
| Informed Of his election to Office,
Lincoln continued to live much as he
| no official dignity and still greeted his
| friends In the manner Of q private
citizen
Lincoln remained in Springfield in
| the few months between his election
and inauguration. He had already de-
serted his law practice, and now occu-
| pied q temporary offlce in the Illinois
| Statehouse. AS the press of visitors
and business increased, he was forced
to assign himself schedule. Each
day the Springfield Journal would an
nounce his program, and each day 1t
became necessary for the President
elect to forestall and thwart ambitious
plans to consume his time.
| late IN january 1871 fa rovvapaatnrod
labor on his inaugural address, so th.t
as it was read this document crs stall
lized his thinking for solid month.
| We must preserve vision of the man
sitting in q dingy, unkempt and dusty
back Office. He hid there, away from
neck-stretching crowds and wagging
tongues. UnadviSed but inspired, he
penned those heroic lines whose music
can well adorn poetry. The issue at
| stake was a nation. His address might
| wreck or weld 1t. What Job for q
man, laboring alone, and with no staff
| of experts to offer aid.
| His thoughts were with him. Words
everywhere. The task at hand was to
marshal and command those words; to
state issues fearlessly and yet give no
offenSe; to assuage the pain that at
flicted the Nations heavy heart.
AS he began his work he asked
"A Herndon, his former law partner,
to lend some books out of his private
library. Lincoln asked for copy of
the Constitution of the United States,
Clay's speech on the compromise of
1850 and Jackson's proclamation against
notification. Later he added Webster's
reply to Hayne. These, according to
Herndon, were the only books he had
when he locked himself in depressing
back room and took counsel with him
self.
He wrote it as a composer writes q
symphony. He marshaled all the mel
ody in words, all the rhythm of speech
and euphony of language to build a
monument out Of cold syllables. And
yet the opus was not all rhythm and
music and harmony. 1t was divine
sermon on thinking. One sentence
would sum up the preceding and pre-
pare for the following. The speech was
freighted with framed logic and capti-
waited the mind with forceful argu-
mentation.
How did he adorn phrases with such