The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1903 Page: 1 of 14
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THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF LINCOLN COUNTY
The Chandler News.
FIRST
PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN COUNTY. H. B. GILSTRAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
TWELFTH YEAR.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, FEBRUARY 12, 1903.
NUMBER 22.
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Tributes to Lincoln.
)HILLIPS BROOKS: "While
both in North and South pred-
judices and practices which the law
cannot touch, but which God hates,
keep alive in our people's hearts the
spirit of the old iniquity .... the
new American nature must supplant
the old—grow like Lincoln in his
truth, his independence, his religion,
and his wide humanity. Then the
character by which he died shall be
in us, and by it we shall live. Then
peace shall come that knows no war,
ar.d law that knows no treason ; and
full of his spirit a grateful land
shall gather round his grave, and
in the daily psalm of prosperous
and righteous living thank God
forever for his life and death.
* * * *
HENRY W. GRADY : "From the
union of these colonies, from
the straightening of their purposes
and the crossing of their blood, came
him who stands as the first typical
American, the first who comprehend-
ed" within himself all the strength
and gentleness, all the majesty and
grace, of this republic—Abraham
Lincoln. He was the sum of puritan and cavalier ;
fn in his ardent nature were fused the virtues of
both, and in the depths of his great soul the faults |
of both were lost. He was greater than puritan, I
greater than cavalier, in that he was American, i
in that in his homely form were gathered all the j
vast and thrilling forces of this ideal government j
0f ours charging it with such tremendous mean-
ing, and so elevating it above human suffering,;
that martyrdom, though infamously aimed, came,
as a fitting crown to a life consecrated from its
cradle to human liberty.
* * * *
HENRY WARDBEECHER: "Rear to his
name monuments, found charitable institu-
tions, and write his name above their lintels ; but
no monument will ever equal the universal, spon-
taneous and sublime sorrow that in a moment
swept down lines and parties and covered up ani-
mosities, and in an hour brought a divided people
into unity of grief and invisible fellowship of
anguish .... Even he who now sleeps
has, by this event, been clothed with new influ-
ence. Dead, he speaks to men who now willingly
hear what before they refused to listen to. Now
his simple and weighty words will be gathered
like those of Washington, and your children and
your children's children shall be taught to ponder
the simplicity and deep wisdom of utterences
which, in their time, passed, in party heat, as
idle words. Men will receive a new impulse of
patriotism for his sake and will guard with zeal
the whole country which he loved so well. I
swear you, on the altar of his memory, to be
more faithful to the country for which he
perished."—Brooklyn, April 16.
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FOURSCORE and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth upon this continent a new
nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal. Now
we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
whether that nation, or any nation so conceived
and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met
on a great battlefied of war. We have come to
dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting
place for those who here gave their lives that the
nation might live. It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this. But in a larger
sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate,
we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men,
living and dead, who struggled here, have conse-
crated it far above our power to add or detract.
The world will little note, nor long remember,
what we say here, but it can never forget what
they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to
be dedicated to the unfinished work which they
who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great
task remaining before us, that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to the cause for
which they gave the last full measure of devotion;
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall
not have died in vain; that this nation, under God,
shall have a new birth of freedom, and that gov-
ernment of the people, by the people, and for the
people, shall not perish from the earth.
Quotations from Lincoln.
THOUGH passion may have
strained it must not break
our bonds of affection. The mystic
chords of mem'ry stretching from
every battle-field and patriotic grave
to every living heart or hearthstone
over all this our broad land, shall
yet swell the chorus of the union
again touched, as surely they will
be, by the better angels of our na-
ture.—First Inaugural Address.
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WITH malice toward none, with
charity to all, with firmness
in the right as God gives us to see
the right, let us finish the work we
are in, to bind upthe nation's wounds,
to care for him who shall have
borne the battle, and for his widow
and orphans, and do all which may
achieve and cherish a just and last-
ing peace among ourselves and with
all nations.—Second Inaugural.
* * * *
TF GOD wills that the scourge of
A of war shall continue until all the
wealth piled by the bondsman's two
hundred and fifty years of unrequi-
ted toil shall be sunk, and until every
drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid by
another drawn with the sword, so still must be
said as was uttered two thousand years ago that
"The judgments of the Lord are true and righ-
teous altogether."—First Inaugural Address,
March 4, 1861.
MY COUNTRYMEN, one and all,think calmly
and well upon this whole subject. Noth-
ing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there
be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a
step which, you would never take deliberately,
that object will be frustrated by taking time ; but
no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of
you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Con-
stitution unimpaired, and on the sensitive point,
the laws of your own framing under it; while the
new administration will have no immediate power,
if it would, to change either. If it were admitted
that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side
in this dispute, there is still no single good reason
for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism,
Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him
who has never yet forsaken this favored land
are still competent to adjust in the best way
all our present difficulty. In your hands my
dissatisfied countrymen, and not in mine, are
the momentous issues of civil war. The gov-
ernment will not assail you. You can have
no conflict without being yourselves the ag-
gressors. You have an oath registered in
Heaven to destroy the government, while
I shall have the most solemn one to "pre-
serve, protect, and defend" it.—First Inaug
ural Address.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1903, newspaper, February 12, 1903; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117650/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.