Show SCOTCHIRISH SOCIETY I SIXTH ANNUAL BANQUET AT THE HOTEL BELLEVUE Secretary Herbert Delivers u fnlrl otio A < l < lros mid Relates n NCTV Story on tIe Late President Lincoln Lin-coln Time Has Passed When Plight Makes Rislit I Philadelphia Feb 15The Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania ScotchIrish society held its I sixth annual banquet at the Hotel Bellevue tonight A large array of distinguished guests attended The speakers of the evening were Secretary of the Navy Herbert United States Senator Manderson of Nebraska and Representatives Hatch of Missouri and Grosvenor of Ohio Colonel A K McClure presided Secretary Herbert Her-bert was the first speaker He said in part When received the kind invitation you sent me to join you in this dinner I was glad to accept it for there is a smart strain of Irish blood in my veins and a somewhat smaller one of Scotch and I felt that I could claim l kindred here and have that claim allowed Not only Mr President are we descended from the very stock but we are improvements on that stock Gentlemen aristocracy as I is understood under-stood in Europe is contiary to the I letter and genius of our institutions and no man here would have it otherwise other-wise Yet there is pride of race a pride of ancestry and lineage that is laudable enobling that lifts men up to be of the times hut ittic lowe than the angelsareF that < the very life and breath of our institutions which exist and which ca exist only when I founded upon the virtue and conser V ULISU1 Ul Llli Hie JJUUplC WHO SU51U1 and administer them When I was a boy in the south and I the institutions upon the foundation of social life of the north and the south were so widely dissimilar the doctrine was familiarly taught thatJhe line that separated America into two people had been drawn by the surveyors Mason and Dixon across the cont nent from east to west but that line of demarkaticm exists no longer it has been wiped out forever I do not think there is any more I striking illustration of the real sent ment in the south today than the af fectionate and continually growing reverence in that section for the memory mem-ory of Lincoln wlio I believe was of ScotchIrish birth Born in a slave state reared in a free state Abraham Lincoln the spirit incarnate of the struggle for the preservation of the Uninn slavery or no slavery I < I he wrote to Horace Grrle to preserve the Union it is neresar to preserve slavery I am for the pr i ervatiori of slavery Fortunately it was ordained that slavery wa < to q I down With Abraham liinro1n the Union was indeed the paramount object ob-ject of patriotic desire I I heard recently an anecdote which I dont rem < llu ° r to have sen in print I was attributed tj Senator Henderson Very early in the civil war extremists began to urare PI evi dent Lincoln to issue 3 proclamation to abolish rlav ry Mr Lincoln was slow in making op his mind While the matter was Mill under consideration considera-tion the present exSenator 7Tciilfr < on went to see cli2 president at the White House just as Mr Sumner was leaving leav-ing Mr Linooln said Kprlerhon did you meet Sumner out there at the door doorYes Yes sir I Well that nan comes here onje a day There are three or them who + I 4 n I + 4 n uu IULV < va Ull U compel me to issue a proclamation emancipating the slaves They want it done now whether I think the time has come or uit Ben Wild comes early in the morning Simmer comes at noon and Thad Stevens e > mps at nicvt Ive gotten so T hate the sieht I of them Every time I lay tme eyes on one of them I think about the liiy wh I wa put to reading the Bible at school and got stupid when he came to the names of the men who walko1 through the fiery furnace He vend nlonr glibly enough until he come to thrive names then he halted The teacher scolded him but it was of no use He trounced him and still the boy could not get out the nams Then the teacher shouted Shadrach Meshak and Abednago you dunce skip them and go along The boy read along very smoothly for a page and then all at once broke out crying Whats the matter said the teacher The boy blubbered out Here comes them infernal three fellows again I Lincoln was patient and kindly and broadhearted enough to do justice to I the motives and to the valor even of I his enemies when they had arms in either hands I was on looking over the battlefield of Gettysburg that he said in reply to an officer who had remarked re-marked that the Americans who held those heights would live in history I That is true But the Americans who charged those heights will also live in history In conclusion Mr Herbert said The time has pasBed when might makes right whether for individuals or for nations Our national government must do that which is right unto Its people and to all the nations and all I the rulers on the earth great and I small and thus be like the city set on a hill There lies the example to al the world of wisdom the justice and boundless beneflcience of free institu ions I t S J k 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