Vinnie Ream : printed for private distribution only; and to preserve a few souvenirs of artist life from 1865 to 1878 . tage, andsaved the nation in the late great struggle, has ever been placed by the side of Washington. To-day the people, in all the land, who love liberty and their country, proclaim Washington andLincoln the Father and Saviour of the American Union. [Applause.] Mr. Cullom proceeded in eloquent terms to review the career of Abraham Lincoln and saidthat other ages have done great deeds which have made their names immortal, but none havedone so much in the interests of humanity
Vinnie Ream : printed for private distribution only; and to preserve a few souvenirs of artist life from 1865 to 1878 . tage, andsaved the nation in the late great struggle, has ever been placed by the side of Washington. To-day the people, in all the land, who love liberty and their country, proclaim Washington andLincoln the Father and Saviour of the American Union. [Applause.] Mr. Cullom proceeded in eloquent terms to review the career of Abraham Lincoln and saidthat other ages have done great deeds which have made their names immortal, but none havedone so much in the interests of humanity as our martyred President. Other men for their greatdeeds have had monuments and statues erected to their memory. Statues and monuments havedisappeared before the corroding hand of time, and revolutions of the people, but their names,the record and story of their deeds, still live and have their influence upon the affairs of men. Soit will be in the case before us. This Beautiful Marble Tribute of a Nations Lovein the long lapse of time will give way or perhaps be destroyed, yet the statesman, patriot and sage 20. ICiBgt UitiMtf fflpam, St., 1BC9iffluiiplpa from Ufp. whose grand work in the cause of freedom is impressed upon the world wherever humanity isfound, will live through all the ages, and as the world grows better and wiser will be more andmore beloved. This statue would, he trusted, long remain untarnished and unbroken. It washis prayer that future Presidents, Congressmen and Judges centuries hence may gaze upon it inthe nations Capitol, pure and perfect as it stands to-day. May God grant that this Union of ours,secured in the outset by fire and sword, maintained during the late great struggle at such a fearfulsacrifice of life and treasure, baptized in the best blood of the land, may be no less durable andpermanent than this marble statue erected to the memory of its greatest friend. It was said of amother in ancient days that she pointed to Alexander and said to her
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