1-818 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE FEBRUARY 12 INDIANA THE JOURNAL Joseph F. Winkler, Hammond. The Chief Clerk proceeded to read the Journal of the pro­ KANSAS ceedings of the calendar day Monday, February 11, 1935, Emma C. Jehlik, Cuba. when, on request of Mr. ROBINSON, and by unanimous con­ Horace E. Elder, Goodland. sent, the further reading was dispensed with, and the Jour­ Walter R. Dysart, Parker. nal was approved. Emmett E. Conzelman, Republic. MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT Irma J. Collopy, Turon. Messages in writing from the President of the United MISSISSIPPI States were communicated to the Senate by Mr. Latta, one of Harry H. Orr, Holly Springs. his secretaries. David E. Nabors, Indianola. CALL OF THE ROLL Tom W. Crigler, Jr., Macon. Mr. ROBINSON. I suggest the absence of a quorum. Blanche M. Gallaspy, Pelahatchee. The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will call the roll. Thomas R. Pearson, Picayune. The legislative clerk called the roll, and the following NORTH DAKOTA Senators answered to their names: Adams Connally Keyes Pittman Mary M. Hoesley, Crystal Ashurst Coolidge King Pope Albert E. Funk, Hebron. Austin Copeland La Follette Radcliffe Bachman Costigan Logan Reynolds Anna F. Jones, Verona. Balley Couzens Lonergan Robinson PENNSYLVANIA Bankhead Cutting Long Russell Barbour Dieterich McAdoo Schall Lela E. Randolph, Portland. Barkley Donahey McCarran Schwellenbach Bilbo Duffy McGill Sheppard SOUTH DAKOTA Black Fletcher McKellar Shipstead Fayette A. Nutter, Alcester. Bone Frazier McNary Smith Borah George Maloney Steiwer Arthur P. Ingle, Harrold. Brown Gerry Metcalf Thomas, Okla. Carl Hildebrandt, Mobridge. Bulkley Gibson Minton Thomas, Utah Thomas W. Lalley, Montrose. Bulow Glass Moore Townsend Burke Gore Murphy Trammell William F. Curren, Vienna. Byrd Guffey Murray Truman TENNESSEE Byrnes Hale Neely Tydings Capper Harrison Norbeck Vandenberg Edward L. Smith, Englewood. Caraway Hat ch Norris Van Nuys Carey E. Reed, Prospect Station. Carey Hayden Nye Walsh Clark Johnson O'Mahoney Wheeler TEXAS Mr. ROBINSON. I wish to announce that the junior Jenna Mae Easter, Anton. Senator from Louisiana [Mr. OVERTON] is detained from the M. Earle Cook, Carrizo Springs. Senate by illness, and ,that the senior Senator from Illinois Gilbert G. Holman, Gainesville. rMr. LEWIS] and the junior Senator from New York [Mr. Carolyn A. Moreman, Hale Center. WAGNER] are unavoidably absent. _ Hany H. Mann, Levelland. Mr. AUSTIN. I desire to announce that the Senator from Benjamin B. Ward, Newcastle. Iowa [Mr. DICKINSON], the Senator from Maine [Mr. John C. Terry, Plainview. WmTE], the Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. DAVIS], and Cleo Jackson, Point. the Senator from Delaware [l.V"rr. HASTINGS] are necessarily Sidney T. Bogan, Quitaque. absent from the Senate. Ina M. Matheny; Rochester. The VICE PRESIDENT. Eighty-eight Senators have an­ Daniel J. Quill, San Antonio. swered to their names. A quorum is present. Milner T. Cain, Seagraves. VERMONT ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Michael C. Mulcahy, Brandon. Mr. COPELAND. Mr. President, this is Lincoln's birthday, Alvarado C. Gibson, Cavendish. and, as my contribution t o the day, I ask that an article Irma K. Mitchell, Fairfax. concerning Lincoln by Emanuel Hertz be inserted in the Berne B. Titus, Fairlee; RECORD. Helen M. Boyle, Gilman. There being no objection, the article was ordered to be Oscar N. Campbell, Hyde Park. printed in the RECORD, as follows: John M. Jewell, Proctorsville. [From the New York Times Magazine, Feb. 10, 1935] Adelbert G. Dudley, Shoreham. WHEN TH E EAST RALLIED DEHIND LINCOLN-THIS MONTH MARKS THE Irene F. Smith, Waitsfield. SEVENTY-FIFI'H ANNIVERSARY OF HIS SPEECH AT COOPER UNION By Emanuel Hertz On his fifty-first birthday, 75 years ago next Tuesday, Abraham SENATE Lincoln, of Illinois, former Congressman, unsuccessful candidate for Senator, possible Republican nominee for the Presidency, was TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1935 putting what he thought were the finishing touches on what bas since been known as h is Cooper Union speech. The Chaplain, Rev. Z~Barney T. Phillips, D. D., offered the Lincoln did not then know that before he was to be well following prayer: launched upon his carefully prepared address he would discard his notes and pour forth, in words that came to him almost like God of our fathers, whose loving, timeless care hath woven an inspiration, one of the greatest speeches of his life, or of his from innumerable strands the finer fabric of our Nation's generation. He did not know that instead of appearing in life: accept our grateful thanks for this our priceless heri­ Beecher's church in Brooklyn, where the religious atmosphere would somewh at tone down a purely political utterance, he was tage, and help us to be worthy, as we share the burden of to address, in a public h all, one of the most distinguished audi­ our corporate responsibility, to carry on the work which ences New York City had ever seen. Thou hast wrought through all Thy servants who, in their He was not even sure of how he would be received. The time several generations, have served Thy people faithfully. Bind was one of ha.rsh judgments, as it was of an almost desperate us ever closer with the bonds of a holy purpose, that we may search for leadership. Passions ran high, the air was full of threats and forebodings. John Brown had been 15 months in be a united people; give us the greater courage to be kind his grave, but John Brown's wild-eyed brethren still walked the 1·ather than arrogant, the greater strength to be merciful earth. At the other extreme were the fanatical proslavery lead­ rather than vindictive, and the spirit of self-sacrtfice nobler ers, ready to disrupt the Union if necessary in order to set up a slave owners' autocracy. than self-assertion, that we may rather serve with Christ, Peace-loving men who hatecl slo.very were turning everywhere for who is our light, than conquer with the powers of darkness. some middle way which would save the Union, yet which would . We ask it in our Savior's name. Amen. prevent the spread of the slave system. Because emotions were 1935 :CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 1819 stirred to the most profound depths every new proposal, every new matter of fact, I have not fully completed my speech for Monday leader, was subjected to a searching and terrible scrutiny. A :man night and I must go back to the Astor House and W'\lrk on it." He of the hour was needed, but those who fell short of the need could had begun to realize that a speech intended for Plymouth Church expect no mercy. would not fit Cooper Union. Herndon had been right. He must be Was Lincoln that man? If he was, could he so convince the undeviatingly political. Republicans of the East, who already had in Seward an able and Trained on the Illinois hustings, accustomed to addressing hos­ fearless spokesman? Lincoln had thus every reason to be uncer­ tile audiences in southern Illinois and southern Indiana, and pos­ tain of his receot1on The Lincoln-Douglas debates, supplemented sessing the great faculty of knowing an address by heart the by various add.fesses· delivered by Lincoln in Illinois, Indiana, and moment it was written in its final form, Lincoln had no reason to Ohio, had made his name known to newspaper readers. Yet so fear that he would stumble when the supreme moment came. uncertain was his fame that he had had great difficulty in finding Yet when Monday night arrived and the committee escorted him a publisher for his speeches, and even when he did find one the from the Astor House to Cooper Union he must have had misgiv­ venture was regarded as a wild and hazardous speculation. His ings. These men-such celebrities as Gen. James W. Nye, George highest ambition did not then extend beyond the Vice Presidency; Putnam, George Bancroft, Noah Brooks, William Cullen Bryant, he spoke half seriously of the salary of the position as a means by David Dudley Field-were formidable. In contrast to their ease which he could grow rich. and good grooming he began to feel the mental discomfort of his UnmiStakably, however, Lincoln was already a man who could not new "store suit" and the acute physical discomfort of the new be disregarded. No one else, not even Seward, had such stature as boots which were rubbing the skin off his ankles. One of the party, a leader and spokesman of the new Republican Party. Men like young Nott, asked him if he was lame. William Cullen Bryant and David Dudley Field, with all their east­ There is no doubt that he was ill at ease as he sat on the ern prejudices, had come to the conclusion that Lincoln, better platform, while the preliminaries of the meeting were gone than any other individual in the Republican Party, or in the North, through, and listened to the chairman's introductory platitudes. had stated the problem which was confronting both North and When he began, his high-keyed voice, the peculiar accent--at least South, and upon the successful solution of which depended the in eastern ears--which he had derived from his Kentucky and cohesion and 'Stabllity of the Union. From their point of view he southern Illinois upbringing, and his evident nervousness, all was Presidential timber. worked against him. As Noah Brooks iooked at the audience and But their impression of h1m was derived from print and from at Lincoln, he said to himself, "Old fellow, you won't do; it's indirect report. The eastern leaders felt that they should see all very well for the wild West, but this will never go down in Lincoln face to face and hear h1m speak before they finally made New York." up their minds.