Birthplace of Lincoln of Lincoln The Lincoln Centenary f No Other American Farm Save Mount k Appreciation ] Rare Geniuses Were Born In Many Such a Wonder- 4 ||l ^ Vernon Has Produced | and Abraham Lincoln Was Great- \ 1809, y ful of Patriotism 0000 M Crop IMtota L@v® / \ est of Them All m m 0 M 0 m fa BLISS JSy By HORATIO \ By EUGENE FERRIS I « Copyright. 1000, by American Prc» Auocletlon Z Copyright, 1000, by American Press Association I COPYRIGHT, 1BOO. BY ROBERTOS L O V B — 1 — (An If • ^ ■■ ■ ■■ an ill # i VO miles from never been done Mrs. Lincoln. tiee bas Q? -=^) to the of the and Indirectly contributed split- Hodgenvllle, Ivy., She was not without a prophetic qual- EIE list ting of the Democratic party and the is a one hundred ity In divining her husband's future down thar round world's great Hodgenville, Kaintucky, deciding of the election. Oddly also, and ten acre she had Insight, men born In eminence, spiritual Or a hundred tharabouts, year ago, whose the two men were personal friends, farm that raises she suffered many sorrows, and de- SOMEWHAR 1809 and Was born a wouldn’ was and In the test of war Judge Douglas her difference from Mr. Lincoln boy ye thought lucky; centenaries will little except pa- spite Lincoln's cel- came valiantly to President triotism. The In temperament and inherited manners Looked like he never wouldn’ have a show. therefore be * * * ebrated support. crops on it are and beliefs she was loyal to him Eut I don’ know. during As for Booth, his motive in slaying for the most throughout. the present year That boy was started middlin’ well, I'm thinkin’. Lincoln has always been something pnrt stunted and One other character has been mini- Is surprisingly a there was a con- His name? it was Abraham—Abe Lincoln. '1*1 le num- of mystery. .That have a discour- mized much in the same way—William W’y, large. spiracy and that he entered into it II. Lincoln’s chief ber roaches into aged appearance. Seward, competitor his rea- J. WILKES BOOTH. thescores. Chief there seems little doubt, but X’erhaps this de- for the presidential nomination and Whites his folks was? as as Yes, pore any. the son for the step has never been made comes afterward his of state. One among poets were Tennyson, 1’oe. jection secretary wa’n’t no a Them pioneers, they plutocrats; Holmes, Fitzgerald nnd Lord clear. Whether be had private griev- from dodging thing that can be said for Seward is PORE Hough- down the humble ton. Of musicians were ance, acted through sentimental sym- about to miss was man to acknowl- Belonged right among many, there Chopin that he enough was and of Dar- pathy with the south or simply the rocks or from edge Lincoln’s greatness when he saw And no more property than dogs or cats. Mendelssohn; scientists, win and lesser crazed by the great events of the pe- trying to find It. lie refused to plot against his But * * * maybe that’s many lights; of fight- Admiral Kit Carson. riod is yet a matter of controversy In the as did some of his fellow mem- ers, Dahlgren, fertility chief, a as for a startin’. so. As good way any Marshal of statesmen, and doubtless will always remain soil, a hopeless bers of the cabinet. He was a wise C'nnrobert; Abe he riz middlin’ for sartin! and Abrn- Considering his talents and brilliant task. Whatever counselor and unselfish statesman. He Lincoln, high, Gladstone, Hannibal Hamlin bam connections, the last supposi- the the to Alaska Lincoln. family cause, had enough foresight buy and the Lincoln and the tion is the probable certainly fact remains that when the public scoffed at him for the a sort o’ Darwin, perhaps I’ve always had sneakin’ charitable one. LINCOLN IN 1862. the latest tenant act. The truth about Seward is that most celebrated of the list, were born Idee that is much Lincoln said that his life peddygrees purty on the same One abolished chat- early was unable to make enougn irom ine he was of a very high type, but not- day. SOMEHOW tails—so to weaken might be described in a line from to meet the as the his was over- Like monkeys’ long they’re apt tel slavery, preserved the world's place taxes, just withstanding height short and annals and set democratic Gray, “The simple earliest one of record, a certain farmer- shadowed. The yap that drags ’em round. No use for suchl greatest republic of the poor.” He came of English; of the name of Thomus Lin- life falls Into two * * * government a long step forward; the carpenter Mr. Lincoln’s But beats the Dutch while of wrote Quakers. His parents, good failed out of the the re- other revolutionized science and coln, to get enough great divisions—that preceding now and then a lad like Little the had How Aby the word “evolution" into the lan- family, belonged to frontier, barren acres to pay for them. of the Missouri and peal compromise or no education and no Grows a guvnor, maybe. nnd of men. little money. Yet this spot of the of the up president—or guage thoughts stony, unproductive formation Republican par- son was never burdened with fame has with ev- The Is now one of the world'* these twin Lincoln’s grown earth ty and that following His hour since his death and is these things himself. schooling shrines. On Feb. 12 presidents, gov- events. His one term In was ery yet congress altogether did not amount to a year. cardinals and cabinet In growing. His hold on the hearts of ernors, Judges, the last Important public service he omniv- men comes not alone from his acts Yet taught himself, reading ministers there to orate and were foregather the first period. Following this such books as he could These but him into the orously pro- these rocks and sterile soil or brought public dedicate five or six years of law with little these were the- It was the sweetness of his char- cure. Fortunately to the for all the days no In Lincoln had eye. patches people politics. congress best—the Bible, Shakespeare, Aesop. of the hills a white acter, his mercy and simplicity, his to come. On one gained a reputation as a story teller Thomas Paine. to his common “Pilgrim's Progress,” memorial hall after a Greek two cam- loyalty truth, homely patterned and wit, had made one or Robert Burns and the lives of Wash- sense, his literary quality and his per temple will likewise be consecrated paign speeches, had Introduced a him ington nnd Clay. ns a Mecca for future feet democracy that have given and left genera- mensure to abolish slavery in the Dis- Lincolns left not the In 1810 the Kentucky tions. The Incloses an old one second, if first, place among temple trict of Columbia and had refused to and two later the men of his own land and won for Indiana, years room with a stick chimney, war was great log cabin, say that the Mexican right- was a time of intense him the affection of all lands. mother died. It one one window and no floor at door, eous. Following his term he had ap- and saddened the life. The of his on Feb misery boy’s all. In this cabin was born a man plied for the office of land commission- centenary birth, to Its will be celebrated as has been that child whom the world has taken er, to which he had not been appoint- 12, of no other American. On the birth- heart—Abraham Lincoln, war president ed, and had been offered the governor- farm in a memorial nnd liberator, man of meekness and ship of Oregon, which he declined. In place Kentucky will be mercy, strange compound of sorrow 1850 he refused another nomination building dedicated, speeches being delivered by President Roose- to congress and In 1852 delivered a velt, of War Luke E eulogy on Henry Clay. It was In 1854 Secretary Court Justice Oliver that he really re-entered politics, be- Wright, Supreme Wendell Holmes, Cardinal Gibbons ing stirred thereto by the repeal of and Governors Folk of Missouri and the Missouri compromise. That year Willson of Kentucky. The address of he was elected to the legislature, but President while short, will refused to serve. He was also a can- Roosevelt, it is one of his most am- didate for United States senator, com- be, believed, bitious efforts. It will constitute prac- ing within a few votes of winning. his last utterance ns With rnre unselfishness he threw all tically important and he to it his strength to Lyman Trumbull and president, designs place ns in the class with Lincoln’s elected him. For Lincoln to go to nearly address as he is able. The .Trumbull-, who bad hut a handful Jif Gettysburg memorial building itself 1ST small aTTft supporters, was like the tall wagging of simple but classic design. Sur- the dog, but It prevented the election rounded by Greek pillars and ap- of a proslnvery man. proached by broad flightB of steps, it In 1850 Mr. Lincoln participated in makes a striking appearance on the the formation of the Republican party, humble Kentucky farm. It complete- making his great "lost speech” at ly surrounds and incloses the little IJNCOUt IN 1801. Bloomington. He also received 110 log cabin in which Lincoln was born, rotes for vice president in the ltepub- ^(ABRAHAM LINCOLN); “All that I am, all that 1 hope to be, which after its wanderings has been he after- lloan national convention and ran for I owe to my angel mother!” re-erected on its original site. At the elector on the Fremont ticket. Two ward exclaimed. In a year Thomas the are a broad sward and foot of steps Lincoln a second and «> later came his debates married time, years great a in the cell IN 1861. driveway, with flagstaff MUH. LINCOLN with were held at Ot- the stepmother came as near supply- Douglas, which which in BE LINCOLN never had no schoolin’; ter. Near by is the rock spring Abra- that reg’lar ing the vacant place in young and of laughter. He, the bnbe tawa, Freeport, Jonesboro, Charleston, in Lincoln's nor stroke was famous even day as be- and almost Galesburg, and Alton. As a He never quarterbacked pulled oar, ham’s heart and life any other came here of parents poor Quincy the remainder of the All of this, with could have done. For the boy the- Illiterate, Is the reason for the temple, result he had a popular majority, but Nor never spent his time and money foolin’ ing farm, which will be left much as it of and for the was beaten holdover senators and stay in Indiana consisted chiefly lor the crowds oratory. by With buried and ancient lore. is to be thrown to langwidges was before, open hard farm with one flatbont Is likewise the reason for the na- a gerrymander. * work, He * * more as a national on Feb. But Abe l’arned the public park down the near its end. tion existing ut all In 11s present form. Following the struggle with Doug- trip Mississippi To set him forrerd in the human filin’ 12. his Instincts, Tom So these humble acres are not all un- las Mr. Lincoln made speeches In Ohio. Following pioneer The Lincoln centenary will also be Lincoln in 1830 moved to Illinois. productive, even though they cannot Kansas, New England and the famous Than all the college fellers kit and bilin’. celebrated at the tomb of “his own for forth a address in New York. elaborately That winter Abraham, now grow crops, they brought Cooper Union, a the martyr president and his former rails and started out in great soul to lead a people from bond- Early In 1800 the Illinois state conven- man,” split LINCOLN never did hifalutin— home in Springfield, at most of the world for The next and to before men's eyes a tion Instructed for him for git the himself. year age place president, and Not even tha.* in D. C. large cities and in the churches he took a second flatboat to Now type of charity and forbearance that and In the national convention that Washin’ton, trip ABE elsewhere all over the United States Orleans and returned to clerk in a will make us all tenderer and better met at Chicago, May 10-19, he was He common, humble, suitin’ jist kep’ ord’n’ry, in some form the in and throughout grocery at New Salem. In 1832 he for having seen. nominated on the third ballot, the to a His backwoods corn patch raisin’ T. world. Mr Lincoln re- served as a captain in the Black The Lincoln farm, after passing out following campaign * • * But jimmy gee. Two men whose lines of fate cross- Hawk war and ran for the legislature, of the ownership of Thomas Lincoln, mained at home and declined to make Abe was any statesman’s and ekul ed those of Abraham Lincoln in a but was defeated. In 1833 he started belonged for many years to a family speeches. The Democratic party split W’y, peer strange and one of them in a sinister in the grocery business for himself, of the name of Creal, after which it on slavery, which made his election And wise as Solomon or old Ezekul. A. and the announcement way were Stephen Douglas but his partner ran off, poor Lincoln was bought by a New York capitalist. possible. Following result of the southern John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln and failed, and it took him years to pny a Sir. wuo rnuue souie im- of the many JJeunett, foes, but the elect RECKON I'm a bit old fashioned, maybe, Dougins were lifelong political the debt. provements on It with the idea ot states seceded, president But when I want a for a man rivals for the hand of the same girl, Lincoln tried for the a changing It into a national park. This refused to be drawn into any public pattern legislature 1 rivals for the senatorshlp, rivals in was oi’ utterance as to his On Feb. 11, second time in 1834 and elected, was abandoned, however, because policy. I’m middlin’ shore to measure Father Aby debate and rivals for the presidency. in the house a reverses. The farm becnuu 1801, he started to Washington, mak- remaining eight years, business And cut to fit his homely human in on plan. Lincoln won in every case, except of which time he was tied In the of the Den- ing n few short addresses the way part minority up litigation And ’s I can and Balti- long His chief acts as a nett estate and for years was neglect- secretly passing through r——-. ....—\ leader. legislator rumors of I’m hootin’ loud and rootin’ his of im- ed. At last it was sold at public auc- more because of possible proud, by hucky, were advocacy Internal ills slav- tion by the authorities ot Larue coun- For that old boy from Hodgenville, Kaintucky! provements, protest against and his of the fight to ty, Ky., when it was purchased by ery leadership Van- Itlchard Lloyd Jones as a representa- remove the state capital from tive of Robert J. Collier. A Lincoln dalia to Snringfield. farm association was formed, with Other events occurring contempora- Governor Folk of Missouri at its head The Address neously with this legislative experl Gettysburg In 1834 and vurious distinguished men on its enee were briefly as follows: directorate. To this body Mr. Collier Remarks at the Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, and 1835 he acted as deputy surveyor law. In 1835. turned over the farm, popular sub- and studied August, November 19, 1863. Lincoln scriptions were raised, a memorial Ann Rutledge died, throwing and other im- Into Indescribable gloom. In 1836 he building was erected, and seven our fathers forth years ago brought upon to the bar, forming a provements were made. As a result was admitted on Feb. this continent a new nation, conceived in and dedicated with John T. Stuart. In the Lincoln birthplace farm FOURSCORE liberty partnership elector on the Harri- 12 will be opened to the public ns a to the proposition that all men are created equal. 1S40 he was an national park. From a scenic aspect son ticket. In 1841 he formed a part Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that T. it is a beautiful spot. Near to the nership with Judge Stephen Logan, or nation so conceived and so can on 1842, he was married plaza fronting the memorial building cation, any dedicated, long endure. and Nov. 4, Todd of Is the famous rock spring, and not far We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedi- to Miss Mary Kentucky. of his career distant is a picturesque creek, on the At the end legislative cate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here formed his final banks of which the boy Lincoln play- Mr. Lincoln in 1843 ed. gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting law partnership, that with William H which lasted to the end or In addition to the dedication of the end proper that we should do this. Herndon, his life. In 1844 he was an elector on farm, a statue of Lincoln will be un- But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, ticket and in 1846 was elect veiled in Hodgenville. More important the Clay cannot this The brave to which was. properly still, it is now practically certain that we hallow, ground. men, living and dead, who ed congress, WILLIAM H. HKWARD. the beginning of his na- some form of memorial will be erected here have consecrated it far above our to add or de- speaking, struggled power career, his real advent at a that should assassination. After his Inauguration tional although Washington, step The will little note nor tfact. world long remember what we as a national figure did not come until have been taken long ago. his history became that of the country say here, it can never It decade after his one term In congres ; Everything connected with Abra- In her most gigantic struggle. The su- but forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, BTBPHEN A. DOUGLAS. was finished. ham Lincoln is held precious by the preme events of his administration as to be dedicated here to the rather, unfinished work which they who the empty honor of the formal elec- Ills and affect his fame were the issuance American people. birthplace they Even there fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to tion to the senatorship. his his acts and his words, tiie of the emancipation proclamation on Lincoln’s Modesty. tomb, he had the popular majority and the with whom he associated, all 22, 1802, and Its official promul- be here dedicated to the great task before us—that from In 1859. when his name was being people Sept. remaining moral effect of victory. Yet, oddly are of a Interest such gation on the 1st of January following; we mentioned as a prospective candidate objects popular these honored dead take increased devotion to that cause for which it was Douglas who, fifty years enough, Lincoln wrote as has been aroused by few men in Vicksburg and Gettysburg on July ror president. Abraham gave the last full measure of that we here ago, first gave Lincoln his opportu- the of nations. 1-4, 1803; the Gettysburg address on they devotion; highly re- to an editor who had suggested the history Compared nity to achieve national fame. The most Nov. 19, the second election to solve that these dead shall not have died in that this advisability of announcing his name with Lincoln's simple greatness 1863; vain; nation, under debates between the two giants were of the characters around him the presidency and second inaugural, "I must in ail candor say that I dt* grouped God, shall have a new birth of freedom, end that government of the the most celebrated in American po- suffer by contrast. This is true even and the assassination on April 14, not think myself fit for the presiden- the and for the shall not litical history. They made Mr. Lin- one I feel that five after people, by people people perish from the earth. of his family. For jus- 1865, days Appomattox. coln the candidate in IStiU cy." I presidential