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Show TRIBUTES ARE PAID . I0AB1ILII0L1 R. W. Young, Jr., Traces Events Leading Up to Work of Emancipator. SAYS CHAIN IS INTACT Declares Almighty Has Raised Human Agencies to Champion Liberty. Lincoln's birthday anniversary was observed ob-served yesterday by the house of representatives repre-sentatives of the Utah legislature by an Informal gathering In the house chambers, cham-bers, at which Representative T. W. Young, Jr., of Salt Lake was the orator I of the day and delivered an interesting and Instructive address on the llfeSvi character of Abraham Lincoln. I At the close of Mr. Young's address Speaker John F. Tolton recited to the audience "At the Tomb of Lincoln." Representative Young's address was, In part, as follows: God has had His inspired interpreters interpret-ers upon the earth from the beginning of lime men who, because of a deeper deep-er vision into the finalities of things, have lived and spoken for the guidance guid-ance of their fellow man. Re he a prophet, priest, scientist, discoverer, or in whatever field his path of activity activ-ity may lie, God's human instrument has blazed a trail which has led to a higher and nobler conception of some phase of human life. The Christian era began with the great interpreter of all times, Jesus of Nazareth, "the light of man." Born some nineteen hundred years ago of lowly parentage, His three-score years of activity stand pre-eminently in history as the greatest of influences upon man's individual thought and life. Praises Oliver Cromwell. Approximately sixteen hundred years after the birth of the Nazarene there was born in England another prophet and leader destined to play a mighty part in the great idea of freedom. This time, however, it was the breaking of chains of tyranny and despotism rather than the chains of personal greed. Oliver Cromwell found himself in a tyranny of the "semblances "sem-blances and forms of thinsrs," as Car-hie Car-hie so aptly puts It The fetish of the divine right of kings and the nobility no-bility had held nations in political bondage and servitude for centuries, and in this man of the common people peo-ple there arose an inspired leader of the masses in their protest for political politi-cal freedom. With Cromwell and his life work began the movement which eventually tore down the pride of royalty and established the right . of people to participate in their gov-V eminent. The flame began by him smoldered and broke out in the French revolution, when liberty, equality and fraternity were enshrined en-shrined on high as the Trinity of the -modern-day political government. But, in the meantime, the person freedom for which the Son of God lived and died was lost sight of and individual greed found fruitful soil in which to flourish unchallenged. New Need Arises. ' The time came when the crying need of humanity was for a new interpreter in-terpreter and harmonizer who could combine the inspired teachings of the Nazarene with the accomplisment of the Great Commoner, and bring the full and complete freedom to the world, for it had been demonstrated that the one without the other could not stand. It was entirely appropriate, therefore, there-fore, that the new nation of America, Amer-ica, in which the conception of liberty, lib-erty, both individual and national, had its fullest development, should produce pro-duce such a man. Some eighteen hundred years after the birth of Christ, and some two hundred years after the birth of Cromwell, Abraham Lincoln was born. Like a master, born amidst the lowliest of his surroundings, sur-roundings, his viewpoint of life was that of the masses. His sympathies were theirs: his ideas were influenced by theirs; and it was hut natural that the chief end of his life was to-ameliorate their conditions. He was simplicity sim-plicity and patience itself. Jven in the days when the confidence of the people of the nation had placed him Jn the highest position of trust and power in the gift of any people, he maintained his splendid equipoise, and in no respect was further removed from the humblest among them. Considered Insignificant. When he assumed the presidency It was the almost universal opinion that he would not occupy a position of significance sig-nificance In the councils of the cabinet. cabi-net. Politicians, newspapers and the public generally believed that the power behind the presidency would be either Seward or Chase, the undisputed undisput-ed statesmen of the party. But the mistake was soon apparent The cabinet followed Lincoln's lead in im- plicit confidence. England and Franr misconceiving his true greatne?TTr sidpd with the south, belie vine that this rough, uncouth backwoodsman would never hold the north solidly behind him. McClellan, after becoming becom-ing leader of the union armies and the idol of Washington society, wrote home that he was extremely disgusted disgust-ed with the administration, perfectly slfk of it; that there were "enough geese in the cabinet to tax the patience pa-tience of Job," and that his one desire de-sire was to escape from this "browsing "brows-ing president." Sensibilities Shocked. His first sight of slavery shocked his sensibilities of justice and humanity. human-ity. As a youth he made a trip by flatboat to Xew Orleans, and there it was he saw the first negro chained, maltreated, whipped and scourged. LinL-oln saw it and his heart bled. He said nothing much, but was silent si-lent from feeling, was sad, looked sad, and was thoughtful and absrrac-ted. It was during this trip, in the vear 1831, that he formed his opinion of slavery and that the inhumanity and barbarism of the institution entered into his very soul, and became the cankerous growth of his happiness. The Civil war was begun and largely large-ly foutrht not, as commonly supposed, to free the slaves, but to prevent the , extension of the damnable practice in free territory.- Hateful as the institution in-stitution was to Lincoln in any territory, ter-ritory, he was too much a lover of constitutional rights to oppose it and its toleration in the south. He believed be-lieved that slave holders had legal rights which should be respected, but when secession finally came his mind was made up. |