| Show Abraham L Goes woes to o W Washington 1 A r I h Abraham Lincoln roan ulna TAKlI to I UA TI I By Oy ELMO SCOTT WATSON 12 1030 a red red- letter day in Americas America's calendar calen celen dar a holiday In roost mot of the tho states tate of the Union a day of remembrance of eulogy oulon of ot flinging his bis name neme against the stars Itara For this Is II Lincoln Lincoln's birth day Hut let us UI go back to another an 1 other Lincoln's LIncoln birthday to February 12 1801 A short little locomotive with A p flat topped flat topped ed smokestack Is II pulling puffing along the single track that thet winds wInd among the gently gentle rolling roiling hull bills hili of Ohio Dack Back there In Is one of the wooden coaches ee ea a tall gaunt man map sits lit by bl a window win win- dow gazing gating out over oyer the bleak winter landscape Yesterday he bad had stood tood on the rear platform of a train at the brick railway station In Spring Springfield Geld field III ilL A crowd of nearl nearly a thousand people silent bareheaded In tho the cold drizzle of at rain bad listened to these the words word I Friends no one who has hn never been placed Ina In a like Uke position can understand my feelings at this hour nor the oppressive sadness I L feel feet at this parting For more than a quarter of ot a cen century century tury turl I have lived hued among you and during all that time Ume I have received nothing but kindness at your lour ba bands IJ hero Here I have lived lint from my tny youth till now 1 am an old man Here lIere the most mOlt sacred trusts of earth were assumed j here all my ml children were born and here one of them lies Iles burled To you lOll dear friends I owe all that I have hu all that I am All the strange checkered past palt seems to crowd bow upon uran my wInd mind Today I 1 leave you IOU 1 go KO to assume a task tack more difficult than that which devolved upon General Washington Unless the great God who assisted him shall be with and aid old me we I 1 must taiL fall But t U the same lame omniscient mind and the tame same almighty arm rm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me I shall not fall fallI I shall succeed Let Iet u us UI ill all pra pray that the God of our fathers may mal not forsake us now To Him HimI I 1 commend you OU all IL Permit me to ask uk that with equal sincerity and faith you OU will all 11 Invoke Ills 1111 wisdom and guidance for me With these those few words word 1 l must leave lea you for you for how long 1 I know not Friends on one and all al I must now bid you IOU an so affectionate farewell Now I 1 am alii an old he ho had said laId Yes Yel Abraham Lincoln II is 0 two fly years learl old oli this twelfth day dal of February 1801 1861 Hut But be he ha has come a long way wallo la In those diner 62 2 years Iura This should b be a happy hapPl birthday for Abraham Lincoln But his bis three boys bol fob Dob and Willie am and Tad hear bear the sigh that escapes capel from his hll lips lip a abe as al albe ashe be he turns turps from the window and they hush their noisy Dol play And Mary Marl Todd Lincoln sees 1111 in the det deep set deep ut eyes that look of sadness which will face taco of this Man lien of shadow the Sorrows for forthe forthe the next nut four tour years Yes he hf U is President elect elect of of the United Stat States PI PIot of ot America or should he be say the Disunited States Six BU weeks after his hll election South Carolina had bad passed Its It ordinance of or secession ulon During the next month Georgia Alabama Mississippi Louisiana and Florida had bad followed the Palmetto states state's lead tead On 00 February 4 representatives from these theae states bad had met at Montgomery Ala and organized organised the Confederate States State of America Five FIfe more Texas North Carolina Virginia sod and Arkansas were almost certain to join the six III that had already departed from the Union The Tb future rutur course urle of three border states Mates Maryland Kentucky and Ind Missouri awell as II aswell well as II the northern slave lIne state of Delaware e was doubtful And Ant always In the background loomed the th threat at of ot a fratricidal war between H the North forth and aad the South So much depended upon what be b. said laid and how bow he said It that he tie had tolled night and day dal for three weeks week over o his hla inaugural address He Ile wrote it as al a composer writes a symphony symphony sym phony 1 says Don on Classman In 10 the Washington Star tar lie He marshaled all the melody In words all 11 the rhythm of speech and aDd euphony of Ian lan lua to build a monument out of or cold syllables He lie w weighed every nerl one on 00 a musical scale lie He emph employed them as II full notes note and halt half notes Ue Ile would pronounce each cb word separately and Ind feel feet convinced of Its Ito nl necessity both bulb as II to thought and style Ie Dy By the time Ume be he finished a sentence it would harbor no contradictory thought or come coarse note Dot The words were riveted together so ao that to strike out an In adjective or syllable would upset the Ibe leave a gaping bole hole bolela la In the sentence Ever since his hll election his bis malt mail had bad been full tun of letters letten bearing southern postmarks Sum Some were signed with the Uie names name and addresses o of the senders others other were anonymous They were tore filled filed with such suca words word I a sa Black U t publics a mulatto birds scamps JaR Jailbirds and thieves thIne f Caesar bad his bis Brutus Charles the First his Ilia CromwelL And the President DUly nuy profit by bl t s e c cg g f t 7 Lincoln's Arrival in Washington rao i s sr r HO r STITT y v a v c al t pf p i n i aw h hS hi S i 5 S i The Fir First Inauguration I I 1 AH ax ota ao PAINT J t r do doVI VI p i a r t e eGI GI J huM 7 t Q A Le Letter tt er T Tram om the South their example warned another which wa was signed from one ono of ot a worn sworn band of 10 who ha have resolved to shoot you OU from the south louth side of the avenue in the Inaugural procession on the fourth of March larch 1801 And still another declared Tills This Is la to Inform you that there Is II a club of iOD young men In this place who have bave sworn to murder you youIt you IOU It was Wal bard hard for him to believe that anyone should desire his hll death But Hut conviction came at last list More disturbing though were the rumors of men In high places who were about to turn traitor to their country and who might have hut guilty knowledge of or plans for tor reducing It to a a. a state of anarchy So 80 he sent lent the adjutant gen eral end of Illinois to Washington to sound out Gen Oeo WI oneill Scott head of the army Scott was a Virginian and his loyalty was suspected Back came the reply from that doughty old fighter Tell Mr Lincoln that If necessary TI plant cannon at both ends endl of ot Pennsylvania avenue and If any lOy show th their lr beads or even eyen venture to raise ralle a finger Ill I'll blow em to hell bell belli I Rut But not even enn such reassurance could bring peace peate to Lincoln's troubled mind As A. the train bore him nearer and nearer to the capital and to the da day when he would take lake the oath of of of- fico Mm hla deepened H To the anxious listening country bis hta speeches on the journey to Washington were disappoint disappointIng Ing lag writes Nathaniel W. W Stephenson In III The fhe Chronicles of America Perhaps his hll strangely sensitive mind felt too powerfully the fateful fatefulness ness neu of the moment and Ind reacted ted with a sort lort of tightness lightness that did not DOt really represent the real nun aua n. n Arriving In Philadelphia he was Informed that Allan Secret Service men had uncovered erect ered evidence of well-laid well Indisputable a plot to assassinate him biro lie He was urged to leave lesve the City of Brotherly love Lore that night His Ills reply reedy wa II I 1 have to raise the hag flag over I Independence hall ball tomorrow morning sad and visit the legislature at Harrisburg Beyond Deland that I Ibue have bue no engagements After the Harrisburg reception a special train consisting of ot a locomotive baggage car and coach sped lied hack bark to Philadelphia There Allan Pinkerton met the President elect wit wits It a well guarded d carriage In which he was wa taken swiftly across acro the city to another station where be he boarded boarde a sleeping car On the morning of or February 23 3 tb the wires bummed with the news Dew that the new President had nude made a secret cret entrance Into Inlo the capital The Prince of ot Italia halls sneaked lURked In under tb the cover c F 5 1 of ot sight night sneered some lome of ot his enemies Others called him that Illinois ape Thus Abraham Lincoln came to Washington Never before nor since has bOI a elect entered entered en en- the nations nation's capital to assume the duties of his hll high office under such circumstances The next eight days daYI were a nightmare ot of persistent persistent per per- annoyance by a horde borde of or job seekers of I rumors of disasters that were about to befall of threats of sneers of or countless Indignities March 4 a blue Monday It bad been raining Pennsylvania avenue was a broad highway of or mud Silence hung heavy over the crowd massed around the Willard hotel as 01 President and President elect Lincoln tin Lin coIn coln entered an open barouche and started up the avenue toward the Capitol Sharpshooters Sharpshooters' were stationed on the tops house-tops with orders ordera to sweep the avenue with their tire fire If It there was any uprising In the side streets troops were wre massed ready for action Other detachments were stationed beside the Capitol steps stepa and near the north entrance a battery of or artillery was ready to unleash a blast of death If it need be Still unfinished the Capitol dome was surmounted surmounted sur sur- mounted by huge derricks held In place by steel teel cables People leople might have lave drawn a striking parallel between the condition of or the republic and Its chief building On a level with the spectators stood the bronze figure of ot Liberty which would later surmount the dome Perhaps she he was making silent appeal to the man In black lie He stepped ed forward until unU be he stood beneath a canopy surmounted b by the Stars Starl and Stripes For or the first Drat time a wave of ot cheering swept over the crowd of or massed on the Capitol steps and In front Fellow ellow citizens of the United States I There was emphasis of on 01 that word United The murmur of ot the crowd was wal hushed as 81 his bis firm clear far carrying voice went on oat I The Union will 1 endure forever no state I upon Its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union I l therefore consider that the Union Is II unbroken there need be no blood shed or violence In your lour hands bands my dissatisfied tied fled countrymen and not In 10 mine Is II the 1 momentous mo mu- question of civil chit par yar ar The government government govern govern- I ment went will not assail you OU You have no oath registered In heaven en to destroy the government while I shall Iball have hue the solemn one to preserve protect and d defend And so 10 on to the end I 1 am em loath to close cluse We are not enemies but friends We must not be enemies Though pas pan lIon don may mal have bave strained It must not break our bonds bonda of affection The mystic chords of memory memory mem memo ory stretching from every 1 and patriot pa triot grave to every erl living heart and hearthstone hearth tone stone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of or the Union when again touched as surely Allrey the they will be by bl the better n angels 11 of ot our nature A roar of or applause from friend and enemy alike Chief Justice Taney stepped forward holding hold log ing a gold clasped Bible HIDIe Then two men repeated repeat ed together 1 do solemnly swear Itar that 1 I will faithfully execute the office of or President of the United States and will to the best bex of ot my ml ability preserve protect t and IOd defend the Constitution of ot ofHie the Hie United States So help me God Cod I Abraham Lincoln was President of ot the United States 0 CI Nausea |
