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PAGE 2 A HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Friday. Feb. 12. I960, The Speech That Made Abe Lincoln President By PHILIP VAN DOKEN STERN Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. No one paid any attention to the tall, badly dressed man on the ferry thai was taking railroad pas sensors from Jersey City to New York. He had tome by train from the Middle West with only one small satchel as bausane. Alter the boat docked, he walked a few blocks east. Ho had been in New York before and knew his way. He turned in at the Astor House, which laced City Hall Park When he signed the register on the pane dated February 25, I860, h? wrote: "Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois." HE THEN WENT to the nearby office of "The Independent" to call on Henry Bowcn. It was late Sat urday afternoon, but the hard working editor was still in his of fice. Lincoln introduced himself and, saying that he was tired from the lung train journey, asked il he could lie down on the olfice lounge while Bowen explained the arrangements for the speech scheduled for Monday night. "There's been a change in plan," Bwen said. "The meeting won't be in Brooklyn. We think you can li!! the Great Hall in the new Cooper Union Building here in Manhattan." Bowcn may have had some mis givings about the gawky - looking Westerner, but he tried to sound encouraging. "Greeley has given you a good write-up," he said, handing his visitor a copy of the "New York Tribune." Lincoln, obviously Impressed, read the notice and then said he would have to revise his speech to make it fit the changed stir inindings. When he left, Bowen in vited him to Brooklyn the next day to hear Bcecher preach. HENItY WARH HEECHER'S Plymouth Church was then one of the most celebrated in the coun try. Its pastor had a remarkable sense of showmanship. Only a few wicks before, he had held a mock lavc auction at which a 9-ycar-old Negro girl was sold from the pul pit. The congregation bought her freedom, enthusiastically donating jewels and wedding rings as well as money. Lincoln went to the church with Eowcn. After the sermon was over, Bowen invited him to dinner, but ! I ... . ' irr'r"' 1 . - ..... ., - 'wrnei.' THE COOPER UNION building, shown here a':ouf 1865, had just been finished when Lin coln made his first major appearance before an eastern audience in February, I860.. Doors Open Tonit 6:45. Contin. uoui Sot. & Sun. From 12:45 "I will kill 10,000 barbarians... and they will call me C GOLIATH!" -." 1 M--V v V. I sir 'Wt. ii , STEVE REEVES '- fin tj M M ANDHE, BARBARIANS in ffllflDCfADF LOK MUCEABOT OPEN TONITE 6:45 P.M. Continuous Sot. It Sun. From 12:45 p.m. You'll get a BANG out of Mister STUHtfS... rib tin n r J h THE WILDEST. WACKIEST, WOOLIEST I A ! V i GUNGSUNGER EVER TO -' SHOOTUPATWNI i iiniii -Ten Weeks with a CIRCUS MistsrSTUBBS Feature Times: Fridoy 7:40 ond 9:50 Sat. 1:30 .3:40 - 5:50 8:00 - 10:10 ciffA Of Evidence Begins Today BOSTON (AP) Presentation of evidence begins today in the runnier trial of Dutch radio ship operator VVillem Van Rie, 3t, ac cusecl of killing a pretty divorcee ship passenger. The first witness was due to be called on this third day of the trial after opening statements to nn all-male jury by the district attorney's staff. Efforts to spcea the trial were made Thursday night when both the prosecution and defense met with Superior Court Judge Frank J. Murray lo go over maps, charts and plans of the Dutch vessel SK Utrecht. Judge Murray explained the private session was planned to roach an area of agreement to save trial time. Van Hie is accused of heating Miss Lynn Kauflman, 23, divorced daughter of a Chicago manufac turer, and dumping her overboard in Boston harbor as the Utrecht steamed from Boston to New York. The state contends Van Rie killed the girl in a violent elima. to an illicit affair in which the lair allegedly was involved dur ing me vessel s 44-day voyage from the Orient. Van Hie denies both the slaying and the love-making. miss isaunman s oly was lound washed ashore on the rocks ol bleak Spectacle Island on Sept I!), the day after the state con tends she was tossed overboard The 12-man jury and the two alternate jurors were taken out into the harbor in a private boat Thursday while the prose cution pointed out skyline land marks, warships docked at the naval shipyard and the various is lands and buoys which dot the harbor. HOTEL CHANCES HANDS NEW YORK (UPH - The St. Regis Hotel, perhaps the most luxurious in New York, was pur chased by the Zeckendorf Hotels Corp. and Col. Serge Obclensky. it was announced Thursday. The price paid to the estate of the late Vincent Astor was report ed to be more than 14 million dollars. Klamath rule, Oregon Serving Southv-n Oregon and Northern California Publlahed dally except Saturday b Southern Oregon Publishing Company Main at Esplanade Pnone rilxedo 4-S1U FRANK JENKINS Editor RILL JENKINS. Managing Editor IXOYD WYNNE. City Editor Enteied aa second class mailer at the post office at Klamath Ealls. Oregon, on August ITU. 1906. under act nf Congress March 3. 179 Second-claaa pottage paid at Klamath Falls. Oregon. and at additional mailing offices. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carrier ; t Month .. S 1 SO S Montha , , , 9 no 1 Year .. tltts) Mail - In Advance 1 Month , I i si fl Months 9 g 50 I I Year SIS no Carrier and Dealer i Week days copy 9e Sundaya. copy . loc UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATED PRESS AUDI'I BUREAU OF CIRCULATION i Subscribers not receiving delivery of ! their Herald and News, olease phone i Tllxedo 4-AIU berore f PM After i T PM.. phone Maurice Miller Ctr culatloa Manager at TVxedo e-47SS 1 the Western lawyer, still worried about his speech, begged off and returned to the Astor House to work on it. Lincoln had spent several weeks in the state library in Illinois pre paring his speech. He knew how important it was, how subject to criticism it would be when news papers, North and South, printed it, as they were sure to do ii it attracted any attention. He had accepted the original in vilation - and its promised fee of $.00 because he wanted to come east to see his son Robert. The boy had expected to enter Harvard bu( had failed 15 out of 16 of the entrance examinations. He was at Phillips Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, where he was prepar :ns to take the - tests again. Lincoln planned lo go there as soon as he finished his New York assignment. He worked hard polishing his long speech, but it was difficult to concentrate, for people kept calling on him at the hotel. Some wanted him to speak in nearby towns. Oth ers were curious to see the new political figure from the West. Lin coln had to be polite to them all and that took time. FINALLY MONDAY evening came. It had been snowing, and tiie bad weather discouraged at tendance at Cooper Union. But 1,500 of the huge basement hall's 2.nno seats were taken. The "car riage crowd" was there, for they could be driven to Astor Place in comfort. Men who formed public opinion were present. Among them were Horace Greeley and George Palmer Putnam, while William Cullen Bryant and David Dudley Field were on the platform. When Lincoln appeared, the au dience studied the strange looking figure in silence. One of them said: Ifis dress . . . was . . . unbe coming for a tall, gaunt man a black frock coat, ill-setting and (no short ... a rolling collar disclos ing his lung, thin, shriveled throat." The jaiiit was not only ill- lilting; it was creased and wrin kled from having been jammed into a small satchel all the way Horn Illinois. Bryant was quickly nominated as chairman; he then introduced Lincoln, saying that he had made name for himself in the widely publicized debates with Stephen A. Douglas, the "Little Giant who was sponsoring state sovereignty as (he solution for the slavery problem Amid applause, Lincoln went to the lectern. When the audience quieted dflwn he turned to Bryant and said in a high-pitched Middle Western voice: "Mr. Cheerman." It was not the kind of accent tue audience had expected. Lin coln was beginning badly. He spoke his first few sentences in a low lone. Then, as he warmed up to his subject, the careful prepara tion and logical organization of his material lent meaning to what he said. He became surer of himself, and the audience began to listen with respectful attention. FOR HIS THEME he took Doug las' statmcnt that the founders of the nation had clearly understood the slavery problem. He then went on to show that in framing the government a majority of the 3!) men who had signed the Constitu tion were in favor of federal con trol. To them, he said, slavery was "an evil not lo be extended and was lo be tolerated only because its actual existence made such tol eration a necessity." One- after another he replied to the Soulh's arguments and in doing so denied that the new Republican Party was sectional in interest. He also said that his party had in no way been implicated in John Brown's attempt to start a slave insurrection. It was a long and closely rea soned speech, interrupted only by occasional applause when Lincoln made some good point. He con cluded with the ringing words: Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end. dare to do our duty as we understand it. This stalment brought a burst of I applause from (he sophisticated New York audience lhat had come lo inspect this wild and woolly Westerner and pass judgment on him. With those often-quoted words Abraham Lincoln was on his wav o the presidency. He was elected n November and took the oath of office a few days more than a year after he spoke at Cooper c'nion. But before 1hi;ii was over, the list Southern slate to secede South Carolina had left th Un ion, and 3') days alter Lincoln en- ercd the White House the cutis loared out at Kort Sumter. That! day of fire and thunder, April 12.1 lfl. marked the beginning of open1 hostilities in (he Civil War. I) sfe ff .! FAMED PHOTOGRAPHER Matthew Brady took this photo graph of Lincoln on February 27, I860, just before the speech at Cooper Union. Foresters Hold School LAKEVIEW A Radiological De fense Instructors School was held at Bend, February 3 and 4, for forest service personnel from Ihe Fremont and Deschutes national forests. The purpose of this school was lo train forest service personnel in the use of radiological equipment and procedure. The in. struments used in this type of work are very similar to those used in prospecting for uranium. These instruments will be used in measuring the amount of ra dioactivity in the atmosphere. Lakevicw. Silver Lake, Crescent and Bend have been selected as civil defense radiological stations. These stations will be operated and maintained by forest service personnel in cooperation with the state of Oregon Civil Defense Or ganization. In event of an atomic attack the trained personnel will assist other civil defense people in estimating the total amount of radiation in the atmosphere. Personnel from the Fremont at tending the school were Harold Herrin, Colon McLain, Stanley Wood, Oscar King, Jeanne O'Harra, Bonnie Nelson, Raymond Cox and Richard Nelson. RIGGED FREE ELECTION LONDON (UPI) The Daily Telegraph today reported the find ing of a writ from England's 12th Century King Henry. II to the monks at Winchester that read: "I order you lo hold a free election, but nevertheless I for bid you to elect anyone except Richard, my clerk, the archdea con of Poiliers." On The Record KLAMATH FALLS BIRTHS , BOYS MILLER Born to Mr. and Mrs. John K. Miller February 10 In Klam ath Valley Hospital a boy weighing 9 IDS.. 1'2 OZS. SPURGEON Born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Spurgeon February 10 in Klamath Valley Hospital a boy. weigh ing 7 lbs., 9s ozs. 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