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8 6 MONDAY, MARCH 6. 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,, ORE. ., ' . mm-ti Mi- a aw i I I -SWi? TTTT5 I 1 1 1 I WAR Abraham Lincoln Inaugurated By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent "We are not enemies, but friends." President Lincoln was clos ing his inaugural address soon after noon on the sunny, cool day of March 4, 1801. "Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection." Lincoln was talking across the heads of the 25,000 gath ered on the Capitol lawn. He was hoping to be heard by the people of seven southern states already out of the Un ion and the seven others still trying to decide which side to join. The hour was late, but not too late, he was say ing in the twangy mid western voice which he had learned on the campaign stump to throw to the last fringe of crowd. the GENERAL iitmiB TIRE jfeamal BRAKE RELINE SPECIAL Ford, Chevrolet, Plymouth Similar Savings On All Makes and Models All Brake Refine Jobs GUARANTEED 30,000 Miles or 1 Year on pro-rota basis $1995 -Or 0n 0,1 ir uPL Tires and II jgServfce Telephone SP 3-8255 for Appointment' HOURS: Monday Thru Friday 8 to 6 Saturday 8 to 5 1112 Court Street Medford "The mystic chords of mem ory, stretching from every battlefield, and every patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, .by the better angels of our nature." A few minutes before he had expressed the hope there would be no war but he had no words of appeasement for the South. "In your hands, my dissat isfied countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous is sue of civil war . . .You can have no conflict without be ing yourselves the aggres sors." And if war came "Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain for either, you cease fighting, the identi cal old questions of inter course are again upon you And now some firmer words: The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the gov' ernment, and to collect the duties and imposts; but be yond what may be necessary for those objects, there will be no invasion no using of force against, or among the people anywhere." At long last, the gaunt freshly bearded man had broken his silence of four months. It was too late to avert secession but perhaps early enough to avoid war. He folded the manuscript. Chief Justice Roger Taney. bent, shrunken, looking like galvanized corpse," ad ministered the oath of office, shaking with age and emo tion. Address Scanned Closely Artillery boomed a salute and Lincoln was the 16th president. Probably no other inaugur al address ever was as closely scanned as Lincoln's. Everybody read it in his own light. To Stephen . A. Douglas, Lincoln's presidential oppo nent four months before and i ' trfSfHrsra?.. u- fl i'V eM Company Contributes .5 Million to Fund $1 tar .. mi r LINCOLN INAUGURATED President Abraham Lincoln was closing his inaugural address at Washington, D.C., with the words, "We are not enemies, but friends." A few minutes before he had expressed hope that there would be no war, but he had no words of appeasement for the South. Finally he said that "the power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy 'and possess the properly and places belonging in the gov ernment, and to collect the duties and im posts . . ." In the above drawing, Lincoln, center, waves his stovepipe hat to the crowd as he drives to the still unfinished Capitol to take the oath as 16th President. (UPI Telephoto) who held Abe'i now itove 1 a prophecy. pipe- hat during the address, said: "It is a peace offering, rath er than a war message." The Charleston, S. C, Mer cury accepted it as a "declar ation of war." Stock prices fell on Wall St. A group of southern lead ers in Wasnington wrote to the Moutgomcry government: "We are all agreed that it is Lincoln's purpose at once to attempt the collection of the revenue, to reinforce Fort (s) Sumter and Pickens, and to retake the other places. He is a man of will and firm ness. His cabinet will yield to him with alacrity." Abraham Lincoln and James Buchanan, now an ex-presi dent, rode back along Penn sylvania Ave. to the White House in an open barouche. "If you are as happy, my dear sir," Buchanan said to Lincoln on the White House steps, "on entering this house as I am leaving it and return ing home, you are the happi est man in the world." Harriet Lane, Buchanan's pretty niece and hostess, had left a hot dinner on the White House kitchen cookstove for the Lincolns. For Mary Todd Lincoln the entry . into . the White House was the fulfillment of Back in '58 when Lincoln and Douglas were debating for a scnatorship in Illinois, Henry Villard, a young re porter for the New York Her ald, recalled meeting Lincoln at a wayside railroad station west of Springfield. A show er drove therft into an empty boxcar where they squatted and talked until train time. Villard quoted Lincoln: "Mary insists that I am going to be senator and president of the United Slates. Just think of such a sucker as me as president." Some had thought t h e South would try to prevent Lincoln from being inaugur ated and LI. Gen. Winfield Scott posted soldiers in all strategic spots around the Capitol. Riflemen watched from the windows of the Cap itol. Fifty infantrymen were under the platform. Two bat teries of artillery were drawn in position to rake the crowd on the lawn, while regulars and District of Columbia mil itiamen preceded and follow ed the presidential carriage in the parade. Other soldiers manned windows and roof tops along the route of the march on Pennsylvania Ave. Squads of regular cavalry blocked the side streets. But not a single incident marred the day. That night Lincoln, with Mayor Berret, led the grand march at the Union Ball held in a new temporary building in Judiciary Square. He shook hands for two hours and 15 'minutes, wearing white kid gloves this time not the black ones which had raised the eyebrows of New York society women at the opera in New York. Mrs. Lincoln, wearing a blue dress, marched with Sen. Douglas, a former . admirer, and she danced a quadrille with him. Lincoln did not dance. Few of the southerners who had been prominent in Washington society were at the ball. Many had gone back home. Those who remained stayed away. The guests larg ely came from the North and West. The pageantry over, Lin coln turned to affairs of state. His first task came even be fore he took the oath. That morning a letter from Maj. Robert Anderson came to the outgoing secretary of war and was saved for Lincoln. The message said that sup plies at Ft. Sumter were dwindling; South Carolina was strengthing its batteries ringing the fort. The implica tion was that he could not hold out much longer. Lincoln went to work. Western Auto Supply com pany has contributed a record breaking $1,519,897.57 to its employees' profit-sharing pro gram for 1960, Donald K. Ford, local Western Auto store manager has announced. The contribution is equiva lent to six weeks base pay for every employee participating in the program. Ford noted that the profit sharing trust fund now totals $10,237,811.07, amounting to an average of $4,206.16 for each of the 2,434 participants, including secretaries, clerks, warehouse stockmen, sales men, and management people. The entire sum of $1,519, 897.57 was contributed by the company to the employees' profit sharing trust fund at no expense to employees. It amounted to as much as 12.4 per cent of the employees' base pay for the past year. Additionally, the company contributed $317,060.15 to the employees' retirement trust fund, also without expense to employees, making a total contribution to the two trusts of $1,826,957.72. "The employees' benefit program was adopted in 1946 in recognition of the employ ees valued contributions to the c o m p a n y's growth and progress," Ford said. PETS FLEE CAGES Washington -01PU- Caroline Kennedy's two pet hamsters, Debby and Billy, escaped from their cages Saturday and were still at large today. 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