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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
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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..
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Feature Times:
Fridoy 7:40 ond 9:50
Sat. 1:30 .3:40 - 5:50
8:00 - 10:10
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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.
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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.
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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.
GIRLS
VALDEZ Born to Mr. and Mrs.
Jose Valdez February 11 in Klamath
Valley Hospital a girl, weighing 6 lbs.,
j-a ozs.
10 SUMMARY
Boys: 66 Girls: 36
Mother Of Nine Becomes Citizen
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Annie
Flanagan, 37, came here from
Londonderry, Norlh Ireland, in
1044 witn her husband, Harry,
but was too busy raising nine citi
zens lo become one herself until
Wednesday.
Then with her husband, whom
sue met while he was a Marine
during World War 11, and their
nine children present, she took the
citizenship oath from Judge John
W. Lord of U S. Dist. Court.
"1 wanted to take a course in
citizenship a long time ago, b'
there always seemed to be a bahy
arnund the house," Mrs. Flanagan
said.
The famed coals of Newcastle,
England, were burned as late as
the 12th Century only by poor peo
ple who couldn't afford wood.
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