The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-04
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President LikenS
1882 Situation To
Civil War Period

of this whole campaign in his proposal
for relief to agriculture" Hoover said.
He has not been willing to state
the method by which he proposes to
secure the advance of agricultural
prices. He has stated with great care
six methods by which he can escape
from any demand that he make good
on his mysterious proposal.
1T seems to me cruel to hold out
hope to suffering people by vague
plans the most specific parts of which
are the ways Of escape from putting
it into action. The only thing We
know of the plan is that he is UNI
willing during all these many weeks
to submit it to debate"
Turning aside from the agriculture
problem the president said: Il would
like to give to you an important anal
og. with the whole situation we are
now in Then he told of Lincoln be-
ing called to the leadership of the
nation at the beginning of crisis that
threatened its destruction" and being
presented with "a multitude of con-
flicting counsels." Through all this
tumult of discordant opinions the
president said land under the ter
rible strain of encouragement and ap-
parent failure, Lincoln kept his head
He thought straight: The union must
and shall be preserved He never
was diverted from his goal. He never
faltered. And in the end the policies
he had adopted, the forces he had
set in motion, carried the country
through. The union was saved.
Review Appropriate
"Wc are assembled here today in
the midst Of a gigantic economic con-
flict," President Hoover continued. 1T
is appropriate to review briefly the
events OF the earlier struggle and to
consider some Of the SimilaritieS to
the situation of the last three years.
I'VE must not press analogies too
far. But I believe you will agree with
me as we examine the record that
certain phases of the conflict between
the states will help to a better under.
standing of recent events"
Reviewing the history of the Civil
war, with its period of almost I'M
relieved gloom for the Union forces"
and the approach of the presidential
campaign in 1864, the president said:
We know now what could not be
known at the time that the real VIC
tory had been won at Gettysburg:
that the forces against the Union,
gallant as they were, and actuated by
the deepest convictions, has been
overcome in the long struggle of the
preceding wars. Yet this fundamen-
tai fact was still obScured by the
smoke Of battle.
Lincoln was renOminated. But the
country was profoundly disheartened
1t felt it had made enormous Sacri-
fees and made them in vain. The
wave of encouragement that swept
over the country in the summer Of
1864 was SO extreme that on Aug. %
Lincoln prepared his famous secre-
memorandum: This morning" he
wrote, "as for some days past. i.
seems exceedingly probable that this
administration will not be reelected.
Then it will be my duty to so cooper
ate with The president-elect as to
save the Union between the election
and the Inauguration, as he will have
secured his election on such ground
that he cannot possibly save it after
wards.
Democrats Assembled
six days later the Democratic ma
tional convention met at Chicago and
declared in it's platform as the sense
of the American people, that after
four years of failure to restore the
Union by the experiment of war. JUS
tice, liberty and the public welfare de-
mand that immediate efforts be made
for cessation Of hoStilitieS.'
"On that platform, with its appeal
to encouragement, discomfort and
suffering the Democratic convention
nominated General George B. Nc
Clellan of New York for president"
Then Hoover told of the events
leading up to the Union victory and
Lincoln's reelection.
II believe this brief outline Of the
progress of events in crisis that
confronted previous generation may
help us to adjust appreciation of what
has happened in the years just past
and what is happening today" he
said.
I'm 1860 as in 1929, the country was
Unexpectedly faced with a great ca
lamity. Then as now, the disruptive
forces gathered strength and for a
time their progress seemed irresist-
ible. Then as now. the resources of
the nation were modified and organ