. Golden jubilee of the Republican Party; the celebration in Philadelphia, June 17, 18 and 19, 1906. ennsylvania. We havean old gentleman with us, I ought to have said venerable, I sup-pose, who has been in the whole business from the start. He wasthere at the beginning and he is here now. If he has looked overthe fences it has only been experimentally. (Applause and laugh-ter.) We all like him. We all admire his capabilities, and we allhope that he will be here at the next Jubilee. He will now pre-sent to you a paper upon Abraham Lincoln. I have the pleasureof introducing to you Colonel Alexa
. Golden jubilee of the Republican Party; the celebration in Philadelphia, June 17, 18 and 19, 1906. ennsylvania. We havean old gentleman with us, I ought to have said venerable, I sup-pose, who has been in the whole business from the start. He wasthere at the beginning and he is here now. If he has looked overthe fences it has only been experimentally. (Applause and laugh-ter.) We all like him. We all admire his capabilities, and we allhope that he will be here at the next Jubilee. He will now pre-sent to you a paper upon Abraham Lincoln. I have the pleasureof introducing to you Colonel Alexander K. McClure. ADDRESS BY COLONEL ALEXANDER K. MCCLURE. Mr. Chairman and Ladies and Gentlemen: I have no paper on Abraham Lincoln, nor have I any pre-pared address. I was advised that a number of other gentlemenwere to deliver addresses here this afternoon, most of which wouldprecede mine and I was left in the rear to fill in where theothers had omitted. I well remember, (it seems to me as ifit were but yesterday,) when I saw in this forum the great I GOLDEN JUBILEE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. 35. fouiidalion laid upon which was reared the great structure of theemancipation of four milhons of slaves, and here was pre-sented the Republican candidate for the Presidency, a man who was then called, and who mayever yet be properly called, ThePath Finder. There were peculiarconditions in those days; very pecu-liar and unique conditions existedat that time. The party in powerthat had practically ruled the Gov-ernment for over half a century, wasdrifting steadily farther and fartherunder its ablest leaders of the Southtowards the absolute dominion ofslavery. At the time the Conventionmet in this hall fifty years ago, themovement was not to abolish slavery, ALEX. K. MC CLURE _ -^ PROTHONOTARY SUPREME COURT but it was the rcsult of a spontan-eous uprising of the people of thecountry in protest against the deliberate policy of the Demo-cratic party of that day to make slavery national, and
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