Show MARK TWAIN AND HENRY WATTERSON PAY PRY TRIBUTE TO ABRAHAM ABRAHA LINCOLN New York Tork F Feb Teb b 11 Carnegie hsUI h n was hued filled tonight teni t with people who bad had to commemorate the ninety second anniversary of Abraham Lin Lincoln coins coln s birth the proceeds of the meet meeting meeting meetIng ing to go for the benefit of the Lincoln Memorial university ity at Cumberland Gap Tenn Tens Samuel L Clemens Mark Twain presided Seated with ith him on either Hide side of a It bust hunt of Lincoln were General Joseph Wheeler Professor Charles Roberts Roberta Major John R It Brooke General Nelson A Miles MUM Colo Colonel Colonel oo nel nd Henry Watterson General O 0 O 0 Howard and General Charles OBrien O Brien Mr r Clemens read a letter of ot regret re ret irom President Colonel Henry Watterson spoke upon Abraham Lincoln In introducing the speaker Mr Clemens Clem Clemens Ll m mens ens said It is a remarkable fact that with th the whole country to pick from you should have called caned upon two old reb rebels rebels els em Colonel Watterson and myself to take the principal parts In this thi great greit gret meeting But are nrc not the blue and the thea gray one today I Iwa was a second lieu Heu lieutenant lieutenant 1 a tenant in the confederate service Wat Watterson Watterson Watterson terson here a colonel rendered me such assistance as he could If he e had only strictly obeyed my orders have ha ve succeeded in my vast enterprise It was my intention to drive General Genera Grant Giant into the th Pacific I told Colonel Watterson to surround the eastern ar armies armies armies mies anti aed wait until i i came But he WAS insubordinate and ana an the Union was sHed saved from Colonel Watterson Lincoln was at no Ii time an 1 I He H had been for thirty years in ini i Ul K us preparation for the thc fra frai At the time tine of his debate with wit Doug J a i T r las Ins the Democratic party parly as now seemed helplessly divided I want to say Just here a few words about the relation of Abraham Abrham Lincoln to the tate south uth He was as th the only one I who could have come to the position i without animosity towards the south For my part I thank God that the I war did sot end at Fortress Monroe or orby orby by any other civil proceeding but was fought on oi out to the bitter end at Ap AD so that slavery might m ht be I I W WIllI was the mysterious power of I this mysterious man It was the gen genius iu ius et ef sense He was a com corn cornmon common common mon man maa expanded to tn giant proportions tio Truly he be was inspired of God Goda a Shakespeare Sl and Mozar 4 A hundred years hence no tragedy will mb be followed by mankind with deep deeper er ci reverence than that which tells the tory story of his life Ute and an death I |