Show 7 P b j h 1 y p 7 4 i ABRAHAM LINCOLN I Y Y Jo f NV Ni yu 1 THE BIRTHDAY V OF LINCOLN Mark Twain Introduces Col Cot Watterson In Carnegie Car Ca Carnegie negie negle Hall Orator Says Lincoln Vai at Ko o nit nil 1 Su No No I to lie IOU South New York Feb 11 Carnegie hallwas hall was flied filled tonight with people who had i assembled to commemorate the ninety second anniversary of ot Abraham Abrahana Lin Li coins birth the proceeds of ot the meeting to go for or the benefit of 0 tho the Lincoln Me mortal moriat university at Cumberland Gap Tenn fenn Samuel L I Clemens Mark Twain presided Seated with him on either of u a 1 bust of Lincoln were vero Gen den Jo Joeph eph Wheeler Prof Charles Roberts Maj Gen Gent John R H Gen Germ Nelson A I Miles Col Henry Watterson Gen den GenO 0 O 0 O Howard and arid Gen den Charles 0 4 Mr Mc Ir Clemens rend n a letter of ot regret from tram President Col Coi Henry Watterson spoke upon uI on Abraham Lincoln In Introducing the time speaker Mr Clem Clemens Clemens ens said It Is a remarkable fact that with tho the whole hole country to pick from you YOli should have hae called upon two 10 old rebels Col Cal Watterson and myself to take tako the prin principal prIncipal cipal paris parts In this great meeting hut are nrc not the blue anti and tho the gray one to today todar today In the day dar I 1 was a second lieutenant Confederate service Watterson here herens ns os Is colonel rendered me mo such sueh assistance ns na he h could If It he ho had only strictly obeyed my m orders I should have succeeded sue suc In my any enterprise It was wall my In Intention intention to drive Gen Grant Into Inlo the thc Pacific I told old Col Cob to surround sur surround round the eastern armies rind wait walt un ml until til ii I 1 came annie But nut he hc was vas Insubordinate and tho time Union was saved from Col Watterson follow tollow Lincoln was nt at no time an extremist ni 1st lIe He had been for thirty years In unconscious preparation for tor the At A time the time of 0 his debate with Douglas the time Democratic party as now seemed hopelessly divided I want sant to say Just here hero a 0 few tew words about the thc relation of Abraham Lincoln to the tho South lIe He was us the time only one who could have come to tho the position without animosity towards the tho South For zor my part I 1 thank God that the tho war did not end at nt Fortress I Monroe or orby orby orby by any other oIlier civil proceeding but was fought on out to the tho bitter end nt at Ap so that slavery might aught bo be an nn What was the tho mysterious power of this mysterious man mann It was the genius jf ot f common sense He lie was IS a n common nu roan man n expanded to 10 giant proportions Truly ho was Inspired oC of o God oa na Shakespeare and ant Mozart MozartA A hundred years jears hence no tragedy will vili be followed by mankind with deep er T r reverence than that which tells time the I tory story of his life and death |