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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 12, 1930
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1930
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
As time goes on the memory in Abraham Lincoln is more cherished in the hearts of the American people and of the world. On this, his natal day, we review some of the things his contemporaries said.
THE DEATH OF THE PRESIDE
New York Evening Post
April 15, 1865
How awful and solemn the blow which has fallen upon every true heart in the nation! Abraham Lincoln, the man of the people, whom the Providence of God has raised to be "the foremost man of all this world", in the flush of his success over the enemies of his country, while the peaks of exultation for a great work accomplished were yetring in his ears, when his countrymen of all parties, and liberal minds abroad, had just begun to learn the measure of his goodness and greatness, is struck down by the hand of an assassin. All of him that could perish now lies in the cold embraces of Death. His warm, kindly generous heart beats more; his cool, delibrate, wise and noble brain thinks for us no more; his mission to his nation and to mankind are endled; and he has gone back to the Rewarder of all sincerely, honest, useful endeavor. The tears and lamentations of twenty millions of people, who are stricken as they never were before by the death of a single man, follow him to his lier, as their gratitude and lasting reverence will follow his fame through all time to come.
Mr. Lincoln had earned the love of his countrymen to a greater degree, perhaps, than any other person who filled the President's chair, scarcely excerping the "Father of His Country". For Washington the universal feeling of love was tamed to a grave and profound love by the imperturbable dignity of his character, and the impressive majesty of his presence. No one could approach him, even with those deep and lively sentiments of admiration which the grandeur and disinterestedness of his character always awakened, without being impressed with a certain solemn veneration. Next to Washington, President Jackson had taken the firmest hold of the popular mind, by the magnanimity of his impulses, the justice of his sentiments, and the inflexible honesty of his purposes. But the impetusity of Jackson, the violence with which he sometimes pursued his ends, made him as ardent enemies as he had friends. But Mr. Lincoln, who had none of Washington's elevation, or none of Jackson's energy, yet by his kindness, his integrity, his homely popular humor, and his rare native instinct of the popular will, has won as large a place in the private heart, while history will assign him no less a place in the public history of the nation.
It was the fate of Mr. Lincoln, without solicitation or wish of his own, to become the leader of the people at a time of gigantic disturbance and transition; during four years of convulsion and almost agonizing civil war he has been the center of the tumult; upon him it has fallen to direct the movement and to give to
the spirit of the public. How ably he has managed, the flags upon every house-top at the very moment of his death bore a grave and exultant witness; how skilfully he has avoided and needled pleasurable, the ease and tranquility of our return from a time of passionate conflict to a time of severe repose is a proof; how wisely he has contrived to put off the suggestions of an extreme or fanatical zeal everybody has been ready to acknowledge, for Mr. Lincoln brought to his office no prejudice of section, no personal reentreatments, no unkind or bitter feelings of hatred, and throughout the trying time of his administration he has never uttered one recurrent word towards the South, or towards his political opponents. He contemplated the responsibilities of his great charge with the calm desire to do his duty under the light of conscience and truth, and the best interests of his country.
The whole nation mourns the death of its President, but no part of it ought to mourn that death more keenly than our brothers of the South, who had more to expect from his clemency and sense of justice than from any other man who could succeed to his position. The insanity of the assassination, indeed, if it was instigated by the rebels, appears in the stronger light when we reflect on the generosity and tenderness with which he was disposed to close up the war, to bury its fusels, to heal over its wounds, and to restore to all parts of the nation that good feeling which once prevailed and which ought to prevail again. Let us pray God that those who come after him may initiate his virtues and imbibe the spirit of his goodness.
Fellow citizens, clouds and darkness are round about Him! His pavilion is dark waters and the clouds of the skies! Justice and judgment are the establishment of Hirthrone! Mercy and truth shall go to his face! Fellow citizens, Go reigns, and the governance at Wad ironton still lives.
WHEN LINCOLN DIEI James A. Garfield
THE LAST ADDRESS
From the New York Times April 17, 1865
Probably all men in all quarters of the world, who read President Lincoln's last Inaugural Address, were impressed by the evident tone of solemnity in it, and the want of any expression of personal exaltation. There he stood, after four years of such trial, and exposed to such hate and obloquy as no other great leader in modern history has experienced, successful, re-elected, his policy approved by the people and by the greater test of events, the terrible rebellion evidently coming to its end, and yet not a word escaped him of triumph, or personal glory or even of much hopefulness. We all expected more confidence—words promising the end of our difficulties. Many hoped for some definite line of policy to be laid out in his address. But instead, he heard a voice as with some prophet, looking with solenm gaze down over the centuries, seeing that both sides in the great contest had their errors and sins, that no speedy victory could be given for, and that the great judge of the world would certainly give success to right and mature. The feeling for the burden and the sense of the great wrong done to them, with its inevitable punishment, seemed to rest with such solenm earnestness on his soul, that to the surprise of all and the derision of the flippant, an official speech became clothed in the language of the Bible. The English and French cries all observed this peculiar religious tone of the Inaugural, and nearly all sensible persons felt it not unsuited to the grandeur and momentous character of the events accompanying it. Many pronounced it a Cromwellian speech; but it had one peculiarity which Cromwell's speeches never possessed—a tone of perfect kindness and good-will to all, whether enemies of political opponents.
"With charity to all and malice for none," President Lincoln made his last speech to the world. Men will
Born as lovely as the Son of God, reared in penny and squonk, with no gleam of light nor fair surroundings, it was reserved for this strange being, late in life, without name or fame, or seeming preparation, to be stuttched from occasion, raised to supreme command at a supreme height. What was the person who spearched his spear get his cares? Where did Mozart get his music? How hands smote the lyre of the Scottish plowman? God, alone; and as surely as these were raised by God, inspired of God was Abraham Lincoln, and a thousand years hence no story, no tragedy, no epic poem will be filled with such a narrative. Nor could any such person not inspired of God, then there is no such thing on earth in a special providence or the interposition of divine power in the affairs of men.
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peruse that sollen address with ever increasing interest and emotion, as the shadow of his own tragic fate am the near unseen dangers to the country rested unconsciously on its word. It will seem natural that no expression of exultation or personal triumph escaped the great leader of this revolution, but that his mind was filled with the impressive religious lesson of the times. It will be thought eloquent of his sense of justice.
WHAT HAPPENED
Providence Journal, Aug. 7, 1860
The London Critic, in the course of a long review of the speeches of Honorable Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the presidency of the American Union, thus refers to his mental powers:
his discrete humanity, that his junk public address to the country was most of all occupied by the wrongs done to the helpless man, whose friend and emancipator he had been. And it will seem but a part of his wonderful spirit of goodwill to all, that not an sylphic of bitterness toward the man who gave his life at home, or his personal enemies, passed his life.
It is such a speech to the world as a Christian statesman would glorify have his last - correct, humane, truely but not technically religious, filled with forgiveness and good-will.
When generations have passed away, and the unhappy wounds of this war are healed, and the whole nation is united on a basis of universal liberty, our posterity will read the dying words of the great emancipator and leader of the people with new sympathy and reverence, thanking God that so honest and so pure a man, so true a friend of the oppressed, and so genuine a patriot guided the nation in the time of its trial, and prepared the final triumph which he was allowed to see.
"It is from the speeches which Mr. Lincoln has from time to time delivered in opposition to Mr. Doughas, that we gather some idea of his mental qualifications. We collect from the speeches of Mr. Lincoln, that he has a mind rather of the straightforward than of the subtle order; that he rather seizes upon the great and prominent facts and argues them to plain conclusions, but builds up elegant but fringe theories upon the treacherous basis of fanciful speculation; that he is correct more than
WHAT ENGLAND SAID
passionate, and commanding more than persuasive. Indeed, every one of his species that we have read has been found to be honest, evidence that he is "Homest of old Abel."
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
The following news story, taken from the New York Evening Post for November 19, 1882, is noteworthy in that it makes no mention of the President's address which is cherished so much today.
several other governors, together with numerous gentlemen of military and civil life.
Getsburg, Nov. 19 - This famous little town is overflowing with people encumbered to witness the dedication of the National Cemetery.
Special trains have brought thousands of people, and other thousand from the surrounding country into the city to experience the rituals are doing all in their power to accommodate the vast concourse.
The weather being fine today the programme has been carried out successfully.
President Lincoln and the district granted party accompanying him as urged here yesterday afternoon, and President Obama's inauguration brought Governor Curtin and
An eloquent address was delivered by Edward Everett.
TO AND FRO ABOUT THE CITY
Shakespeare is dust, and will not come
To question from his Avon tomb,
To question from his sleep,
An Attic and Halian sleep.
They will not see us, nor again
Shall indignation light the brain
and torment its soul's weight
Tells out the spring and winter night,
They see not, But O, Christiaw,
who Throng Holborn and Fifth Avenue,
May you not meet, in spite of death,
Nor will they ever forget.
—John Drinkwater.
In a slightly conventional memorial oration upon Clay, Lincoln had said of him that "he loved his country partly because it was his own country," and this is the motto of his "trusty" try. He might truly have said the like of himself. To him the national unity of America, with the Consolidation of subject and devotion just in so far as it had embodyed and could hereafter more fully embody certain principles of permanent value to mankind—Lord Charleswood; Albrham
DRINKWATER'S LINCOLN:
When the high heart we magnify,
and the sure vision celebrate,
the brave people passing by,
Our lives are great.
Mayan Drama to Be Held in Ruins of Mexican City
College Counseling
Mexico City - The first modern Mexico which attempts to show authentic details of life in the great prehistoric Mayan civilization will be held at the city of the Mayas, Chiichen Itza in Yucatan. The play, entitled Payambe, is written by Luis Romo Vega, a graduate of the Historical Museum in Merida, Music used in the play is by a Yucatecan composer, Fausto Pinelo, and is drawn from themes of Indian origin from the ancient Maya folk music of rural Yucatan today.
The Pelota Court at Chichen Itza,
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Vol. XVII FUNDIARY 12, 1930 No. 106
QUACK CLUB:
There will be no Quock Club meeting tonight because of the intramural swimming meet.
ALICE SHERBON, President.
EL ATENEO;
There will be an important meeting of program leaders and officers of EL Atenuon on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 15, at 4:20 p.m. in room 139, east Adjacent to the main campus.
GIRLS' RIFLE CLUB;
The Girl! Riff Club picture will be taken for the Jaywalker Thursday,
Feb. 17, at 12:30, at Squirrel Studios. VIOLA KLAMC, Captain.
PHI CHI THETA:
Actives and plodders meet in room 112 west. Administration at 5:00 p. m.
briday, February 15.
COLENE SERGEANT, President.
OUHL CLUB:
Quill club will hold its regular meeting in the rest room of central Administration on Wednesday at 7:30 a.m.
There will be music.
The author has written two more plays which round out a cycle of the early colonial period, the decline of the old civilization, and the third ends with the Spanish colonies.
Thursday Nite Is Special Nite.
where the ancient Mayas played a difficult ball game, will be the scene of one part of the play. Another is the triumphant temple of the Warriors, and a third by the Sacred Cemetery, or Well at the sacred Yucatán east, will act the play.
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