Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club of the City of New York
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Excerpt from Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club of the City of New York: Celebrated at Delmonico´s the Ninety-First Anniversary of the Birthday of Abraham Lincoln Monday, February 12th, 1900 Gentlemen: and I suppose I should say ladies, for it is the peculiarity of the Republican Club that it never celebrates this annual festival without having ladies present, in the gallery. We feel that whatever we profess and whatever we believe is an inspiration which comes from them and that their hearts beat in unison with the sentiments which we will express here to-night. The Republican Club claims to be the pioneer in the celebration of the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln. The significance of the event and its relations to the times, and the character and achievement of this wonderful man have been illustrated here during the fourteen years of these discussions better than anywhere else. No civic, military, or naval hero deserves or can maintain an annual commemoration unless his works and his principles are of continuing vitality. The man of the hour has his mission and performs his task. The everyday problems which are continually arising to be solved could not be successfully met without him. It is his fate to have for his reward only the applause of his contemporaries. We celebrate in our country the birthdays of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, General Jackson, General Grant, and Abraham Lincoln. It is a singular and significant fact that the living principles and ideas of all these statesmen are the living principles and ideas of the Republican Party of to-day. It is a still more significant fact that while the Democratic party celebrates the natal day of Thomas Jefferson and General Jackson, they have wandered so far from their teachings that if the spirits of either or both could be materialized and attend a Democratic banquet on either of their anniversaries the room would be cleared. [Laughter.] It is an interesting question as we close one century and enter upon another to speculate as to who will survive of the nineteenth as the representative of what has been done during these hundred years. Though we are only one century in advance of the eighteenth yet of all the worthies who fill the mind and eye of the generations of that period only two are universally and commonly recognized of all men - George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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