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Show i LINCOLN AND WATTERSON Kentucky's Famous Orator Or-ator Pays Eloquent Tribute to Dead . Frftnkfprt, Ky., Nov. 8 Henry Wat-terson, Wat-terson, editor of the Louisvlllb Cour-Jer-Journnl, delivered an address here today on Abrahnm Lincoln on the occasion oc-casion of the unveiling of the Lincoln Memorial Mr Watterson's oration was devoted mainly to the "personality, "person-ality, the origin, and spirltunl life and character' of Abraham Lincoln. He gave a minute account of the Lincoln and Hanks families derived from documentary doc-umentary evidence; disproved the falsehoods touching Lincoln'p, birth and traced his noble qualities of head and heart to his mother. In concluding conclud-ing this passage, he said: Tomorrow there will assemble in a little clearing of the wildwood of Kentucky Ken-tucky a. goodly company. It will embrace em-brace the greatest and best of our time and land. The President and the Chief Justice and. the rest -will gather about a lowly cabin, whoso unhewn un-hewn logs liko tho serried battlements of Elslnore gave- prelude to the swell-ing swell-ing act of a theme yet more Imperial, to consecrate a shrine. Of him that J was born there the final earthly woid r was spoken long ago, but, Mother of God shall that throng pass down the hillside and away without looking into I tho Heaven above in unutterable love K and homage with the thought of a i spirit there which knew In this world 3 nought of splendor and power and 1 fame; whose hRrd lot It was to live and die in obscurity, struggle, almost in I penury and squalor; whose tragic ; fate it was after Bhe had lain half a i lleftlmo in her hurablo, unmarked i grave, to be pursued by tho deepest, i darkest ralumny that can attach itself to the name of woman; the hapless, I the fair-haired Nancy Hanks? No falser, fouler story over gained t currency than that which impeaches ;' the character of the mother of A bra ham Lincoln. It had never any foun-' foun-' datlon whatsoever. Every known fact j' flatly contradicts It. Every aspect of circumstantial evidence stamps It a preposterous lie. . It was a period of heroic achlevo- , ment tempered by religious fervor. Jt U JW a .n'O", , God-fearing neighbor-, , f Tioo'd of 3iraplo' hard Vorking" men aim ' womeni Debauchery was unknown. S' Double living was Impossible. Thomas : Lincoln and "ancy Hanks, as I have I shown, came of good people. Hlstor-, Hlstor-, ically, it would not matter who were the parents of Abraham Lincoln any more than it matters that ho whom Xi the English monarch Is proud to call i his progenitor was a bastard; but it offends the soul of a brave and jnst jjRg manhood, It should arouse in the heart Jftr "f every true woman a sense of wrong w that so much as a shadow should. rct K upon the memory of that little cabin 'jMo in which Nancy Hanks gave- to- the f& world an Immortal son, horn In clean j'Mj vnchallengcd wedlock nor thought of jSt taint or shame anywliere. fJK Let no one of those that gather (w there go thenco without a heart sa-Sm sa-Sm lute to the gentle spirit of i Nancy gWi Hanks Lincoln, that maybe, somo-3K somo-3K where beyond the stars among the 2' angels of the choir invisible, will look jMj upon the scone, serene and safe at SjK last in the bosom of her Father and m hcr GodI 3l His story of the love-life of Lincoln jj9 aud his relation with Joshua Fry I Speed, an uncle of tho donor of this fi statue, in tho early days at Spring- '3Kb field, Illinois, was lllustrativo and In- BL terestlng. He said: V It Is of record that he stooc closer Bv Joshua Fry Speed than to any Hk other. Tho tie's of early manhood bo- iSjK' tween the two wero never broken To 3l the end of Lincoln could turn to Speed 9B' certain to get the. truth, equally sure 'yH' of sound counsel and unselfish fldcl- K liy. B-' "He was pne of thoso men, says jK' John Hay, "who seem to have to a Hf surpassing degree tho genius of friend- K ship, the Pythias, the Pylades the K Horatio of the world. . It Kt is hardly too much to say thnt ho was jKt the only, as ho certainly was the last XB' Intimate friend that Lincoln ever had. 1K o They knew the ' inmost mK, thoughts of each other's hearts and jrJBJI pach dependod upon the honesty and jflf loyalty of the other' MgLj (Continued on Pago Two.) ' , . LINCOLN AND WATTERSON j (Continued from Page One.) Hl L , The story of the way their lntim- Hl f k acy began and how they came to abide M r. If together relates that, entering Speed's Hl IB store in Springfield, saddle-bags on Hl J' arm, the Just-arrived Lincoln ascer- H j ! tained that the domestic outfit he re- 1 1 quired would cost the enormous sum HJ , of seventeen dollars. "I had no idea 1 It would cost the half of that," he H said, "and 1 haven't the money to pay H . : for it; but, If you'll wait on mc till Hl Christmas, and I make anything I'll Hl pay; and, if I don't, I can't" Then H said Speed: "I can do better for you H than that. I have all tho things you H want and I sleep on a bed that's big H enough for two. You Just come and H 1 hunk with me and it shall cost you H I nothing." He pointed the way around H t A a. pile of Ikixos and barrels and up a Hl , flight of stairs. Lincoln went as dl- H ' gj Tected and quickly returned, but H -g without the saddle-bags. "Speed, H to said he, "I've moved." H t Conscience and Destiny had Joined H ' r forces to write a drama such as may H j ' ' not bo found elsewhere outside tho H pages of romance; as compact and uni- H ) fied as a Greek tragedy; mystical and H l - weird, but real. Speed was short, of H v stocky build, not given to loquacity, a H I , little abrupt in spocch to the end' of H Ljs. ' his days, Lincoln was very tall and H T angular, conciliatory, patient, not ever H r j wantiug the persuasive word. He H , might havo described himself and his Hj friend as he onco described Jiimself K ' t and his wife, as "the long and the H ; short of 11." H . ' Tho first and most serious affair of H i life to them was marriage. Tho ama- H '' tory mutters which engaged and en- H j grossed them were not many, but Hl they cut deei. Lincoln had already H t had what he thought was his finishing H , stroke in tho death of Ann Rut- Hl i ledge, when he met Mary Todd. H . , . Speed's love passage with Fanny Hen- H j ning was to come later. Each as tho H L sequel showed suffered the common H t lot of heartache, as each in turn and H I in tho hour of tioublc delivered to H ! r; ' hf other fratornal wisdom and com- H In tho year 1S10,M I quote from H i tho Hay-Xlcolay biography, "Abraham Hl .i Lincoln became engaged to be mar- H ) H r,ed to Miss Alary Todd, of Lexington, H i j ) Kentucky. The engago- Hl j ment was not in all respects a happy H K 4 one, as both" parlies doubted their M compatibility His affec- H I . tlon for his betrothed, which he fear- H . cd was nor strong enough to mako H ' happiness with hor secure; Lis doubts H ' v which j eL were not convincing enough Hl t I. to Induco him to break off all Hhg ' 'relations with her; his sense of hou- H) l or which was wounded in hjs own H ! f eyes by his own act; his sense of H V j duty whloh oondemned him in one H 'tr courso and did not sustnjn him in tlie H L opiioslto course, combined to mako H ) him profoundly and passionately H ? j wretched. To his friends who were H ' unused to such finely wrought-, and H ,j even fantastic sorrows, his trouble H t seemed bo exaggerated that they HU could only account for it on the HL t ground of insanity." H t But ho was not mad. Speed picked v . ' him up bodily, as it were, nnd carried him off to Kentucky and into tht l)Oiom of his ojvn hnppy and pious family circle, where he quickly recovered recov-ered his equanimity, returning to Springfield himself again. It was Speed, who on thin home visit, met his fate, and, In perturbation of spirit, spir-it, oxchanged places with Lincoln Lincoln who became tho physician of his friend, and, out of his own p-pcrlence p-pcrlence administered the ncedei medicine of thoughtful and tender sympathy. The correspondence is yet extant revealing tho Innermost throes of two natures exquisitely strung and stretched stretch-ed to their tension, ueithor Hamlet nor Wcrthor, closer upon the edge of tho precipice, which happily was withheld from tlicm. Their period of travail endured for nearly two years, from 1S40 to 1842. the close of the latter year finding each of them safely safe-ly married. Less than twenty year? thereafter two short decades Lincoln, Lin-coln, elected president of tho United States, wrote to Speed: "It Is like a dream. Isn't It?" Jlr. Wattcrson told a graphic storv at tho coming of Lincoln to Washington Wash-ington and his first Inauguration. His narrative took the form of a personal reminiscence. "I was engaged b Mr. Gobright, tho gonoral .manager of the Associated Press In the national capital," cap-ital," said he, "to assist him and Major Ma-jor Ben Perley Poore, n well known newspaper correspondent of those days, with their report of the Inaugural Inaug-ural ceremonies of the -Jfh of March, 1SG1. The newly-elected president had arrived in Washington ten days before to bo exact the morning of the 23rd of February. It was a Saturday. Sat-urday. That same aflornoon ho enmo to the capltol escorted by Mr. Seward, Sew-ard, and being on tho floor of the House I snw him for tho first time and was, indeed, presented to him." He continued as follows- Early In the morning of tho 4th of March I discovered, thrust into the keyhole cf read: "For inaugular address see Colonel Col-onel Ward H. Lamon." Who was "Colonel "Col-onel Ward II. Laraon " I had never hoard of him. The city was orowded with strangers. To find one of them was to look for a needle In a lmv-stack. lmv-stack. I went directly to Willard's hotel. As I passed through the long corridor of the second floor, spliced with littlo dark entrywavs. to the apartments facing on Pennsylvania nvenue, I saw through a half-opened door, Mr. Lincoln himself pacing 10 nnd fro, apparently reading a manuscript. manu-script. T went straight in He was alone and, as he turned and met mc ho extended his hand, called my name and said: "What can I do for you''" I told him my errand and dilemma, showing him the brief memorandum "Why," said he. "you have come to the right shop; Lamon is in the next 'room. I will take von to him, and he will fix you all right." NTo sooner said than done, and, supplied with the press copy of the Inaugural address, ad-dress, gratofully and gleefully took my leave. Two hours later I found myself In the senate chamber, witnessing there the oath of office administered to Vice President-elect Hannibal Hamlin Thence I followed the cortege through the long passage-way and across the rotunda to the cast portico, where a temporary wooden platform had been erected, keeping close to Ir. Lincoln Ho was tall and ungainly, wearing a black suit, a black tie and a black silk hat. Ho carried a gold or a silver-headed silver-headed walking cane. As we came out into the open and upon the pro-visioinlv pro-visioinlv stand, where there was a table ta-ble cpntainlng a Blblo, a pitcher and a glass of water, ho drew from his breast pocket the manuscript 1 had seen him reading at the hotel, laid this before him. placing tho cano upon it as a paperweight, removed from their leathern cbbo his steol-rlmmed spectacles, and raised his hand he was exceedingly deliberate and composed com-posed to remove his hat. As he did so. I lifted ray hand to receive it. but Judge "Douglas, who stood at my side, reached over mv arm, took the hat, and held it durlnc; the delivery of the Inaugural address which followed. fol-lowed. His self-possession was perfect. Dignity, herself, could not have been more unexclted, Ills voice was a little lit-tle high-pitched, but resonant, quite reaching the outer fringes of the vast crowd In front; his expression serious to the point of gravity; not a scintillation scintil-lation of humor. In spite of the campaign cam-paign pictures I was prepared to expect ex-pect much. Judge Douglas had said to me, upon his return to Wa'Uiington, after the famous campaign of 185S for the Illinois senalorship, from which the Littlo Giant had come off victor: '''lie is the greatest debater T have ever met, either here or Anywhere else." To me tho address meant war. As the crpwd upon tho portico dispersed back into the capltol I found mvself wedged In between John Bell of Tennessee Ten-nessee nnd Revenly Johnson of Maryland. Mary-land. Each took me by nn arm and we sat down upon a bench just outside out-side the rotunda They woro very optimistic op-timistic No, there would be no war, no fight; all the troubles would be tided over; the Union was safe. I was but a boy, Just one and twonty. They were the two most Intellectual and renowned of the surviving AVhlg leaders of tho school of Clav and Webster, one of them just defeated for president in tho preceding election. elec-tion. Tholr talk puzzled mc greatly, for to my mind thero' seemed no escape es-cape from the armed collision of the sections secession already accomplished accom-plished arid a Confederate government govern-ment actually established. There is in youth a prophetic instinct which growgVdlillpr with advancing years As I look behind me I not only bear this in mind, illustrated by tho converse of those two veteran statesmen that day in the rotundn of the capltol at Washington, but I feel it and realizo it, so that T am much less confident, with a lifctimo of experience to guide me, than I was when buoyed by tho Ignorance and bravery, but also tho Inspiration of youth, the problems ahead read plain and clear as out of an open book, Of Lincoln und the south he said: The duty he liad been commissioned com-missioned to do was to save the Union;. With an overwhelming overwhelm-ing majority of the people the Institution of African slavery was not an Issue. In his homely, enlightening enlight-ening way, Lincoln doclmed that if he could preserve the Union, with slavery, Jio would do it, or without slaverj', he would do it. or with some free and others slaves, he would do that. The Proclamation of Emancipation Emanci-pation was a war measure purely. Ho know he had no constitutional war-rani, war-rani, and, true to his oath of office, he held back as-Jong as he could; but so clear-sighted was his sense of justice, jus-tice, so empty his heart of rancor, that ho wished and sought to qualify the rigor of tho act, by some measure of leatltution, and so prepared tho joint resolution to bo passed b congress con-gress appropriating four hundred million mil-lion dollars lor the purpose, which still stands in his own handwriting. He was himsftlf a southern man. AH his people were southerners. "If slavery bo not wrong," he said, "nothing "noth-ing is wrong," echoing in this the opinion of most of the Virginia gentlemen gen-tlemen of the Eighteenth century and voicing. the sentiments of Jhousands of grae raon who wore the Confederate gray Not less than tho north, thero-foic, thero-foic, has the south reason to canonize Lincoln; for he was tho one friend wo had at court aside from Grant and Sherman when friends were most in need. If Lincoln had lived thero "would have been no era of reconstruction, with Its mistaken theories, rcpresa'vo agencies and oppressive legislation If Lincoln had lived there would have been wanting to the extremism of tho time the bloody cue of his taking off to mount the steeds and spur the flanks of vengeance. For Lincoln entertained, en-tertained, with respect to the rehabilitation rehabil-itation of tho Union, the single wish that tho southern states to use his homely phraseology "should come back home and behave themselves," and If he had livod he would have made this wish effectual as he made everything effectual to which ho seriously seri-ously addiessed himself Poor, insane John "Wilkes Booth! Was he, too, an instrument in the hands of God to put a deeper damnation upon tho taking tak-ing off of the Confederacy and to sink the southern people yet lower in the abyss of affliction and humiliation humilia-tion the living Lincoln bad spared us? He spoke, of Lincoln's teaching and examplo, and paid a glowing tribute to President Taft, as follows. Tragedy walks hand-in-hand with, history and tho eyes of glory are wet with tears "With malice toward non, with charity for all" since Christ said "Blessed are the peacemakers peace-makers for they shall bo called the 1 children of God1 has heart of man, j btlrrcd to its depths by human ex-I ex-I Igency, delivered a message so sub-I sub-I lime? Irresistibly the mind recurs to I that other martyr of the ages, whom j not alono In the circumstances of obscure ob-scure birth and tragic death, but in those of simple living and childlike faith, Lincoln so closely resembled. Yon lowly cabin which Is to be official)' offi-cial)' dedicated on the morrow may well be llkonod to the manger of Bethlohem, the boy that wont thence to a God-like destiny, to the Son of God, the Father Almighty, of him and of us all. For whence his prompting except from God? There are utterances of his which read like rescripts from the Sermon on the Mount. Reviled oven as the Man of Galilee, slain even as the Man of Galilee, yet as gentle and as unoffending, a man who dlod for men! Roll the- stone from tho grave and what shall we see'' Just an American. Ameri-can. The Declaration of Independence Independ-ence his confession of faith. The eon-btitution eon-btitution of the United States his ark and covenant of liberty. The Union his redoubt, the flag his shibboleth. Called like one of old, within a handful hand-ful of years he rose at a supreme moment mo-ment to supreme command, fulfilled the law of his being, and passed from the scene an exhalation ot the dawn of freedom. We may still hear his cheery voice, bidding us be of good heart, sure that "right makes might," entreating us to pursue "with firmness firm-ness in the right as God gives us to see the right," , The problems ho met and solved arc problems no longer. Other, It may bo greater problems, rise bofore us. Shall there rise another Lincoln? May God gird round and guard hin successor in tho greut office of chief magistrate whom we have here with us this da , give him the soul of Lincoln Lin-coln to feel, Lincoln's wisdom to see and know; to the end that which ever of the parties will prevail and tV whatever group of men are committed the powers of administration, wholehearted whole-hearted devotion to tho public service serv-ice and large-minded fidelity to American Am-erican institutions may continue to glorify the leaching and example of, Abraham Lincoln. His peroration was as follows: i "LiOt us hero highly resolve," the words still ring like a trumpet-call from that green-grown hillside of Gettysburg dotted with the graves ot heroeB, "that these mon shall not have died In vain; that this nation, under God shall havo a. new birth of freedom: free-dom: and that government pf the poo-ple, poo-ple, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth." Repeat Re-peat wo tho declaration. As we gather gath-er about this effigy In bronze and marble mar-ble In this "the capital of Kentucky of Kentucky tho most world-famous among tho states of America, whoso birth-right carries with it a universal and unchallenged badge of honor; of Kentucky, which gayc to the longest nnd bloodiest of modern wars both its chieftains, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, and to each of tho contending armies a quota of fighting men larger than was contributed by : : :U! any other state singly to either armv; I of that Kentucky whose Clay, ante- B dating Lincoln In the arts of conclii- K atlon and eloquence, tried to effect ; ftV and did for a time bv compromise r what Lincoln could only compass by '. 3 the sword, and whose Crittendon was Jl last seriously to invoke the spirit of v" fraternity and peace; or our own Ken- $ S tucky, dark and bloody ground of tho 1 savage, beloved home of all that we ,1 W hold generous and valiant In man, ' K graceful and lovely in woman, where- , L? in when tho battle was ended the war , Rj! was over, and once a Kentuckian al- Kj ways a Kentuckian, the Federal and E5 tho Confederate were brothers again L let use here, whether tvc call our- W selves Democrats or Republicans, re- ' K new our allegiance to the constitu- jjS8 tiou of the republic and tho perpetu- K? itv of tho Union! 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