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LINCOLN’S “LOST SPEECH.’’
Thic year, as frequently has been the case abou
the time of Lincoln’s Birthday, there has been a goo
ileal written and said about "Lincoln's Lost Speech.
Every now and again someone claims to have or t
have seen a copy of it. However, bhe best authorit
seems to be that the speech was, indeed, lost nut the
its cense has. been preserved.
The "lost speech4’ was delivered at Bloomingtoi
111., May 29, 1856, at the time of the organization c
the Republican party in Illinois, and accounts agre
that it created such a profound impression the
even the reporters forgot their tasks and failed t
take it down. The searching investigations and stud
of every scrap of paper that Lincoln left has fuile
to disclose manuscript of the speech, and it is get
crally accepted us a fact that the speech was extern
poraneous.
Lincoln's Peoria speech, made in the course of hi
campaign against Douglas for the Senate more tha
two years after the utterance of the "lost speech,"
supposed to have contained the substance of th
Bloomington deliverance. Whitney's account of th
"lost speech," wiitten from memory but which, it
admitted, contained it substance and some of il
phraseology, seems to justify this contention.
However, Dr. William E. Barton, one of th
country's accepted Lincoln authorities, is probabl
correct in contending that the speech delivered i
Springfield October 30, 1 858 was the near t duplicatio
ct the "lr t spench” of any subsequent deliverann
Dr. Barton says the Springfield speech was made t
only iwo per. in-, Lincoln's law partner, W. II. lleri
don, and John Pain, a friend otherwise ui
dirtlnguLhed. Under the circumstance, it is n<
rtrange that the' s.pecoh lacked much of the qualit
which made such a profound impression at llloon
ington. The "lr.. t speech” a! Bloomington presente
Lincoln' cenception of what the Republican Part
should stand for on the slavery question. Ills .Sprint
field speech, delivered to two friends but really ir
tended for the papers, stated his position on the
question at the clc.c cf the campaign a,gains
Douglas. It was the nine as before.
Oliver R. Barrett of Chicago recently gave oi
what he said was the "lost speech.” He elaime
to have in his possession the original in an use rip
but It has, apparently, been thoroughly establishc
that hi. very valuable manuscript is t hat of tti
epcecli delivered at Springfield to Herndon and Pai
L r the papers just before the election of that yea
The speech makes clear, as did the Peoria speed
that Lincoln was not at that time in favor of tf
abolition of Elavery but opposed to its extension. H
1 v,,n admitted that the Fugitive Slave Law. inte
P' tod in the famous Died Scott Decision, was in hi
dance with the rights of the slave owners.
wr that lie and Douglas were not very far apai
i * the slavery question. Douglas was opposed to tf
intension of slavery unless (ho people of a Territoi
asked to tie admitted with it. Ho favored “Populi
Sovereignty." And m that point, Lincoln had got
lar as to say thai if the neonle of n
a*krd for admiaelon us a slave State, if the otlu
qualifications as to population, etc., were met, he su|
pose.1 the Territory would have to he admitted thi
way.
L-inci In i Springfk lit speech, the manuscript <
Which is in tlie hands of Oliver E. Barrett of Chicag
was as follow: :
My friends, today closes the discussion of
Oils canvas - The planting and tile culture
aie ever, and there remains but the prepara
tion and tlic itarvest. As 1 stand hero sur
rounded by friends come political, all per
nonal friends. I trust—may I be indulged in
. this closing scene to say a few words of
ln': °lf ’ I have Imrne a laborious, and, In
» one r: .-.pectc to myself, a’painful pari In the
contest. I h to ugh all I have neither assailed
nor wrested with any part of the Oonstltu
tinn' 1 1,1 l<‘ ol riglit of tlie Southern people
i<> reclaim t^eir fugitives I linve constanly
admitted; the legal right of emigres# to in
. terfeie with their institutions in the States
1 have constantly denied.
111 retistlng tlie spread of slavery to new
lwriiory. and with tliat what appears to me
lo '*'■ a tendency to subvert the first prin
ciple . f (r e government Itself, my whole
}■. ‘"ort lui' <',,r ■■‘■'til To tlie best of my judg
t ment, I nave labored for and not against tlio
I nion. As I have not felt so I liave not ex
pressed any harsh sentiment towards our
Southern brethcren. I have constantly de
clared. as I really believed, tlie only differ
ence between them and ue is the difference of
circuniEtam
I liave meant to os-ail the motives of no
party, or individual; and if 1 liave. in any
instance (of which I am not conscious) de
parted from my purpose. I regret it.
1 have said that in name respects tlie
ccntCJt has been painful to me. Myself, am!
those with whom 1 act, have been constantly
accur/d cf a purpose to destroy the Union;
and be pattered with every imaginable odious
epithet; and seme who were friends, as it
were, but yesterday liave made themselves
• | most active in this. I have cultivated pa
I tienco and made no attempt at a retort.
Ambition has been ascribed to me. God
, knows ho tv sincerely I prayed from the first
I that tills field of ambition might not be
opened I claim no insensibility to political
honors: but today, could the Misouri restric
tion be restored, and the whole slavery ques
tion replaced on the oid ground of toleration
by inc': -;;ty where it exists^ with unyielding
hostility to the spread of it, on principle, 1
would, in consideration, gladly agree, that
Judge Douglas should never lie out, and I
never in an office, so long as wc both or
' either live.
THREE WOMEN IN CONGRESS.
r When Mr?. Nolan, widow of I he late Congressman
1 John 1. Nolan,- war oworn in last week, she became
! tlie third woman to be a member of the National
' II ure of Representatives. Miss Alice Robertson was
•«' elected from ntt Oklahoma district in 1920. At the
" elect! n list fall Mrs. VVinnifred Mason Huck wa?
chosen ( ngrt iman-at-Garge in Illinois to succeed
iter father, the picturesque and brilliant William E.
Mason, who had died since the long session. Mrs.
Nolan wa chosen to succeed her husband, who had
died since tlie election last Novmeber. Of the three,
Mrs. Nolan is the only one who will serve in the next
Conn es unless Mrs. Huck should be successful in
Iter candidacy to succeed the late Congressman Janies
R. Mann. The former was elected at the special election
late In January to both tlie short and long terms of her
husband. Mis Robertson was defeated for re-election
in Oklahoma last November.
.Mir: Robertson and Mrs. Huck are Republicans
and M: Nolan was elected as a labor candidate,
defeat in.- fix other aspirant* as the polls, leading
- the n in ;t one by 4,000 ovtes.
Upon Law and Lawlessness.
(Cincinnati Enquirer.)
Emphasis has been placed upon two illustra
tions rather than upon the main argument in the ad
dress delivered by President Nicholas Murray Butler,
of Columbia University, before the Ohio State Bar
Association at Columbus.
These were used to demonstrate the utter futility
cf exercising force instead of reason in bringing about
reforms in private life and personal conduct, and,
while they are precisely in point, still tihoy do not
reveal all of his conclusions. There have been cited
by him the fifteenth and eighteenth amendments to
the Federal Constitution as provocatives of disrespect
for law. It will bo admitted that in the South the
nojjo dor not enjoy a full measure of citizenship
becau c i t racial feelings which of themselves are sub
stantive or natural law. No one anywhere else will
agree that prohibition fares any better than the
black man.
tj
I)r. Butler spoke upon the topic of "haw and Law
lessness," to which these quoted matters were but
Incidental. His startling assertion was that the ex
isting deplorable attitude of the country toward re
spect for authority primarily is due to the change in
educational system, which took place about 1890,
when the old doctrine of general knowledge, general
discipline and general teaching, based upon the peda
gogical experience rather than upon the desire of the
pupil or his family, was abandoned and the elective
idea introduced. This contributing cause is still
subtly at work undermining society.
Another great factor was the reprehensible exten
sion of the police power by the Legislatures of the
States and by Congre :, fer wthich condition the class
called dcmi-lawycrs by Themes Jefferson is re
sponsible. Every day witnesses the creation of now
statutes applying force to personal conduct, and. as
these fail in accomplishment, the adition of more
drastic provisions. Lacking the support of public
opinion, they are doomed to failure and in reality are
hut legal pretenses. Dean Inge, of St. Paul's Cathedral,
London, calls them legal impertinences.
As a natural consequence this system of bureau
cracy is forcing into American government its hato
tul PruBsianism and making conspicuous the "never
ending insolence of elected persons," assailed by Walt
Whitman. The evil effect of legislation of thin char
acter upon the aver ago mind is cumulative and grad
ually has brought about a total dim pcct for not only
law, hut constituted authority.
Again, the educator spoke cf the abuse of the
power of the majority which Is subject to the same
limitations as the monarchical power. As exercised
in the United States, it contemplated actions from
which the most arrogant monarch would draw back.
Tyranny was tyranny still, whether offered by a
ingle or many-theaded ruler, by divine right or by
majority rule. Hence the revolt against the eighteenth
amendment was nation-wide and is not confined to
men and women of intelligence and moral sensitive
ness in cne eection alone, as in the case of negro
suffrage.
The dissent Is complete because, as the speaker
dated, they regard Hr provisions and those of the
statutes based upon it as "a forcible and immoral
and tyranlcal Invasion of their private lire- and per
sonal conduct." Moreover, their moral sense is af
fronted by “the policy which will expend millions and
me the methods of Czarist Russia and the Spanish
Inquisition to enforce one provision of the law while
olhers of far greater significance and public import
ance are accorded conventional treatment or less."
Perhaps tne speaker will be pilloried, denouncod
and abused without stint for this expression. Tin
pn nuniimes snougiy mivw 111result. meverineiess
his words will net be effaced nor his Indictment for
gotten. It is to ibo remembered that the burden it
upon the opposition to do more than merely silenci
hardy protestants by catch words and formulas. Ii
must explain the dominant lawlessness and briny
forth remedies which, to function, must be reason
able and not mere exhibitions of brute force.
Of all the men at the Peace Conference and out
! Ide, Woodrow Wilson had the greatest and the
soundest vision. I.ike till great conceptions it was s
ttimplo conception. The whole world had fought Hit
war and it would lake tlie eo-opcraitlon of the wholi
world to reconstruct the ravages of the war. Tin
vision was frustrated when the United States took
herself out of the program of reconstruction. The re
sults are inaniftet today. But the responsibility Ie
on all of us.— (New York Post.)
If only the numerous reformers in this country
can be brought to regard (tie American system with
mild indulgence it is po.-tlblc that civiliatlon may
manage to potter along for a generation or two.—
(Cincinnati Knquirer. i
Things are. indeed, coming to a pretty pass when
■in Iowa jury convicts a woman of murder in the first
degree for killing her own husband. Have women no
rights? — (Springfield (Maas.) Union.)
Bryan names tho epocifleation# the next Democrath
nominee for President must till, lie thinks Hie con
clusion ts to the man is obvious, doubtless.— (Pitts
burgh Gazette Times.)
If diplomats had to tleep in pup tents and eat
'ildicrs rations while holding conferences it wouldn’t
take them long to reach some sort of conclusion.—
(Toledo Blade.)
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ALONG LIFE’S DETOUR
By SAM HILL
Observations of Oldest Inhabitant
A man used to belong to a politica'
party because hi; father before him
belonged to it ha' party. Now hi
joins the party his wife picks out.
Fully Justified
Judge: "Why did you strike this
man?"
Prisoner: "Because the fool began
quoting that every day, in every way
stuff.”
Judge: ‘'Case dismissed. I’m sick
to death of it, too."
His Heart Murt Have Been in His
Mouth
Bob Quillen says, “A three-days’
growth of beard may cover an hon
est heart.” We admit a three-days'
growth tee’s mighty long sometimes,
but Bob, no man's whiskers ever
grew lonjt enough in three days tc
come anywhere near the parking
place of his heart.
Holydko asks: “What’s the differ
! ence be! ween a toe-path and a fo^t
ll-at'h?" Trying to trip us up, eh?
She Ought to Pick A. Surething Next
Time
A. St. Joseph, Mo., woman has been
1 twice divorced, her first husband's
jn.iine was Chinee and the second
lone was named Guess. Evidently
hasn't much luck gambling.
Pays to Be Nimble
‘Oh, I missed you!” exclaimed the
! lady.
“Yes,” growfled the man, “but if
■ I hadn't learned to dodge fool driv
! ers 'like you, you wouldn't have.”
Be One Worth While
Says a news Item: “A Frenchman
has invented a boll to be attached to
any typewriter bo give warning when
a typist is nearing the end Of a sheet
of paper." It will meet a greater
rood if they can invent a tell for
typewriters thalt will give warning
eveny lline the typist starts to mis
-pr' 1 a word.
If It Fits—
If our trousers hung the way the
new skirts do nothing could convince
us thalt our suspender buttons hadn’t
parted company with cur trousers.
When you need comfort there is
nobody like a mother, but when you
need money, well, there always is
dad.
Oil and water won't mix and we
suppose 'it also would be impossible
for a profiteer ever to love bis neigh
bor as himself.
When we are trying to dodge
jc:'.. ;s a street we can't help but
wonder w'by they still run street
C2rs.
A coat of arms is a nice thing to
j have, but a coat of fur enablps a
woman to make a bigger splurge.
We don't suppose a marrying par
I son ever looks forward to being
[awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The alimony they pay shows there
! still are a lot of men who are for
peace at any price.
Before ho marries a follow thinks
his love will stand anything, but
afterward lie Jibcovers his I/ave
won't.
It 's easy enough to design sensi
ble clothes for the women, but find
ing women to wear thorn is some
thing else.
Daily Sentence Sermon
A lot of things are worlh taking,
but offense isn’t one of them.
News of the Names Club
Maybe some folks didn't, but M.
Knowit. He lives at Harrison, Ohio.
You don't -ec them very often
these days, but there's still A. Musk
et t at Detroit ^
Charlie X ■ ir lives at Waliops
burg, Ohio. Write your own wheeze.
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This is the latest photograph of
ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm of Ger
many, whore activities as a co
conspirator of the Royalist Group
of Germany have been noted by
the Allied Governments. Wilhelm
is in his exile home in Holland,
but is known to have conferred
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band that is seeking to restore a
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exile and his associates.
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