. 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 . e do forget. So I have chosen forthe title of the story The Makings of theLincoln Association, in which I want topresent as vivid a picture as possible ofthe conditions under which the Lincolnideal was nurtured in Jersey City. Just where to start the story is verydifficult to say. Jersey City was charteredFebruary 22, 1838; her first mayor, andher first citizen for a long, long lifetime,was born in Connect
. 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 . e do forget. So I have chosen forthe title of the story The Makings of theLincoln Association, in which I want topresent as vivid a picture as possible ofthe conditions under which the Lincolnideal was nurtured in Jersey City. Just where to start the story is verydifficult to say. Jersey City was charteredFebruary 22, 1838; her first mayor, andher first citizen for a long, long lifetime,was born in Connecticut, and was eminentin the work of the American ColonizationSociety. Dudley S. Gregorys acquaintance with the principles thatAbraham Lincoln was going to die for, was more than theoretical thatfar back. The politics of the time were already effervescing with theoratory of the Anti-Slavery Societies. Henry D. Holt had started hisJersey City Advertiser and Bergen Republican in I 838, and was printingstories now and then about the iniquitous commerce in the blacks, and foryears his voice and pen were active in the cause which came to a climaxa little more than a score of years later. 5. Hon. Dutlle\ S. Gregorj It will be pertinent to refer to the decidedly forward program ofthe forty-six members of the Particular Baptist Church of Jersey Cityand Harsimus, who withdrew from that select institution in 1842, tofound a new Baptist Church with this covenant: A slave-holder,or one who traffics in human flesh, is not a fit member for a GospelChurch; it w-ould be sinful for one to sit down and commune with there was a little company of Congregationalists who worshippedat the southeast corner of Grove Street and Railroad Avenue, on part ofwhat is J. W. Greenes present building site, most all of them so faras we can give locality to family names, originating in New England,who were exponents of the ideas of Wm. Lloyd Garrison. So it maybe readily seen that The Foundation Company w
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