. The "makings" of the Lincoln Association of Jersey City; a souvenir of the dinner at the Carteret Club commemorating the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln . opular lectures in theTabernacle. Grace Greenwood, Dr. Chapin, Edwin W. Whipple, BayardTaylor, Dr. J. G. Holland and GeorgeW. Curtis were among the lecturers, andI fancy they must have said some thingsthat were not pleasant reading for thecopperheads, for the Standard cut themdead. One lecture in the course, however,was by Charles D. Deshler, once aneditor on the Standard, and later MilitaryAgent from
. The "makings" of the Lincoln Association of Jersey City; a souvenir of the dinner at the Carteret Club commemorating the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln . opular lectures in theTabernacle. Grace Greenwood, Dr. Chapin, Edwin W. Whipple, BayardTaylor, Dr. J. G. Holland and GeorgeW. Curtis were among the lecturers, andI fancy they must have said some thingsthat were not pleasant reading for thecopperheads, for the Standard cut themdead. One lecture in the course, however,was by Charles D. Deshler, once aneditor on the Standard, and later MilitaryAgent from New Jersey. He was givena fulsome column of praise in his oldpaper. Leonard J. Gordon was the organ-ist at many of these lectures. As a new-comer in Jersey City I did not know, until too late, how deep was hisreverence for Lincoln, nor why his pocket copy of Lincoln letters andspeeches was the book from which we must read aloud as we restedawhile on our tramps together through Curries Woods. Election day, 1864, came on November 8th. The Standardthat day editorially proclaimed what evidently it would have us believewas the reverse of what was happening then, in this rather remarkable. Leonard J. Gordon in 1862. utterance: If General McClellan is elected, speech will be free,opinion will be free, the press will be free. Men will no longer besubjected to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment for political opinions;An 1864 and the doors of the political jails, bastiles and dungeons will be thrownElysium wide open. His election will bring an end to drafts, conscriptions,mutual slaughters, debts and taxation. But that happy moment has notarrived, even yet. Instead, came the dark brown taste of the morningafter. In an obscure column—remote from the spread head and theglowing news of victorious Democracy (in Hudson County)—is the matter-of-fact announcement that Abra-ham Lincoln is without doubt electedPresident of the United States. TheStandard and its clientele in Jersey Cityundoubt
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