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The Daily record and the Dresden daily : 12.02.1909
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r*‘t i <'/¥? J '■ „* l^f>’|K«N<<^ / I <OMiJ«V<>h. »■> «Mf &» Office: SimtStr.5,1. DresdenA. Telephone 1755. and THE DRESDEN DAILY. Office: DresdenA. Telephone: 1755. Thb Kirst Daily Paper in English published in Germany. A« 916. T DRESDEN. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1909. | 10 PFENNIGS. The Daily Record is hand in Dresden. ant may he ordered^ any Past Office Jhroughoa, the German Empire, it is published daily, excepting Mondays : legal holidays in Dresden. and days, following Monthly Subscription gates: For Dresden, imark I.--for the rest of Germany and Aastria. mark I JO,' For other countries, marks 2,50. THE FATHER OF THE UNION. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, or place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in Course of extinction; or its advocates will push it for ward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new—North as well as South. These words, uttered bp Lincoln before the Re publican convention which nominated him on June 16, 1858, constituted a daring prophecy, but the author of them had not long to wait for his justifica tion. Even at this late day there are some people’ who credit Abraham Lincoln with undue sentimen talism towards the slavery question. Nothing, could be farther from the truth. The Great Emancipa tor, more than any contemporary statesman, insisted throughout the six years’ anti-slavery agitation that, transcending the technical point of constitutional authority, or the problem of public policy, the deeper question of human right and wrong lay at the bot tom of the slavery controversy. While Lincoln did not stand alone in his fight against .the slavery ad vocates, few who rallied round him realised so clear ly as their leader that the question was one ‘ of national life and death to the Union. He turned his eyes to the illumined future, to those days when the spread of equality must embrace men of every colour and creed, and he saw that a State which then tolerated the vile anachronism of slavery must inevitably wither away beneath the contempt of the civilised world. His large heart may have urged him to take up the cudgels on behalf of the oppressed, but his powerful brain showed him the necessity of pressing on the struggle with might and main if his beloved country were to eventually assume her rightful position amongst the nations. A sketch of Lincoln’s career is a review of splen did manhood, of indomitable determination, of a warrior’s high courage, curiously intermingled wi,th the gentleness of a woman, the inexhaustible pa tience of a saint. In moments of greatest stress he was never too occupied to spare a kindly thought for others, and a shining example of human tender ness is furnished by a personal letter he wrote to a Boston woman whose five sons had met their death fighting for the Union. This letter we are able to reproduce in facsimile through the courtesy of the American Consulate-General in Dresden ZUSU + «K OKaj (Lu£j, fa**, LUmo. / ?KlUU*nn*. J fb** S&Fler** •*> ^ of <*♦** ‘•h dnjsdt- <*• 'CaC&eCt*, M ^ £** O/tny Wr»t df *— 1 - n i h< f* ■"»' +T J. h_- . AnJC J C<Hwha*. AA.fr+'Sl* frdoX A, m p^J. -t£t. i T~~ Tux i-i ■ ■ J oftpLio a...^ / f~+~' His life was one long fight against adversity, commencing in poverty and privation, and ending amid the clamour of political strife. To h’im jt was given to lead his people through the countless perils of mighty revolution, and this he did so nobly and so ably that he justly earned his title as “The Father of the Union.” Full justice to the career of this great man could not be done within the limits of a weighty volume, though it has frequent ly been attempted. The story of his boyhood and youth teems with minor incidents illustrating his tenacity'of purpose, his shrewd knowledge of men, hit lofty courage. Like so many of his great country* ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Born in Hardin County, Kentucky, on February 12, 1809. .Died at Washington on April 15, 1865. Portrait, r^rotjuccd by courtesy ot the American Gonsulat%-GenerM in Dffesden. men before and after him he did not disdain manual labour, but worked with a will at the task set be fore him, whether it was the splitting of rails to fence his' father’s plbt, or the serving of customers in his unfortunate little grocery store. Earning his bread by day, he burnt the nocturnal candle perfecting himself in mental education, and perhaps one of the most remarkable characteristics of the man was his powerful oratory. He had the true orator’s gift, the power of making his listeners feel with him every emotion which surged through his mind-; and yet he was no verbal acrobat,—his greatest speeches were those in which the trisyl- labics may-be counted on the fingers of one hand. Shot down by an assassin in his prime, Ljilncoln did not live to see with his own eyes the glorious future which opened out before that Union he strove so successfully to save. But his. memory is kept more surely than in marble; it has an honoured place in the hearts of each of his countrymen, it inspires the everyday life of America’s youth, and it is constantly exercising a powerful effect in mould ing the national ideals of the American Unlion. TEN YEARS AGO. THE DISCORDANT NOTE. (From our own correspondent.) London, February 11. The strangely ill-timed attempt on the part of the editor of the Berliner Tageblatt to rake up the ashes of a decade-old Anglo-German incident has created little interest here, especially since his statements are categorically denied from an authorita tive source. It is true that in the late autumn of 1899 Prince (then Count) Bulow, who was in Lon don at the time, called upon Mr. Chamberlain quite informally and said that he could not leave Eng land without paying a visit to the statesman who wielded so great an influence over public opinion in the United Kingdom. He urged on Mr. Cham berlain the advisability of working for the improve ment of relations between England and Germany, and then departed, leaving the English statesman quite fascinated by his cordial attitude. Prince Bil low’s visit led to the delivery by Mr. Chamberlain, without previous consultation- with his colleagues in the Cabinet, of his famous speech at Leicester, on November 30, 1899, in which he strongly ad vocated a rapprochement with Germany. His ut terances, it will be recollected, created a great sen sation in Germany and in the world’s press. Mr. Chamberlain subsequently remarked that “Count Bil low completely threw me over in the Reichstag*” It might have been hoped that this incident, ten’ years old and trivial in itself, would have been allowed to rest in oblivion. Herr Wolff, the Tage blatt’s editor, doubtless had his reasons for reviv* ing it, but they are inconceivable to the rest of the world. THE ROYAL VISIT. DEPARTURE TODAY. The great Court ball took place at the Royal palace in Berlin on Wednesday evening. The brilliant assemblage included: the Prussian Princes and Prin cesses aitd other Princely personages staying in the capital, Prince Billow, State Secretary Freiherr vori Schon, Count Wolff-Metternich, the German Am bassador in London, and the other members of -the Diplomatic Body in Berlin With theiy wives, and a number of Generals, Admirals, and Ministers. Oh the entry of the Court King Edward led the Em* press, and the Emperor Queen Alexandra. Supper was served for their Majesties and their Royal and most distinguished guests in the “Marine Saal” at 11 o’clock. After an interval, dancing was continued until past midnight. The Imperial Chancellor, Prince Bulow, had a conversation on Wednesday with Sir Charles Har- dinge, the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Prince Bulow has been presented by King Ed ward with bronze busts of himself and Queen Alexandra. King Edward and Queen Alexandra visited the Royal stables yesterday morning with the Emperor and Empress. The King, attended by his suite and the German officers of his staff, then proceeded to the barracks of the regiment of Dragoon Guards “Konigin von Grossbritannien und Irland,” to take luncheon with the officers at their mess. The departure of King Edward and Queen Alexandra is arranged to take place today from the Lehrter Bahnhof, at about 5 p.m. THE POSTPONED POTSDAM VISIT (From our own correspondent) Berlin, February 11. The bitter cold this morning was the chief fac tor which decided the postponement of the Royal visit to the mausoleum erected at Potsdam to the memory of the Empress Frederick. By some means or other the Berlin populace had evidently got wind of this change in the programme at an early hour, as the great square around the Royal palace was practically deserted at ten o’clock. Otherwise it is certain that thousands of expectant sightseers 1 would have congregated to greet King Edward, Queen Alexandra, and their Imperial host. The Potsdam mausoleum could, no doubt, have easily been adequately heated for King Edward’s visit, but it may be taken for granted that the Emperor did not desire that his Royal guests’ visit to the Im perial residential city should merely consist of a rush there and back en automobile. The Potsdam inhabitants are looking forward with keen pleasur- aole anticipation to the coming of the King, 1 and have decorated the city lavishly in his honour. Even had the visit taken place today, as originally (ar ranged, the piercing cold would certainly not have prevented the Potsdamers from turning out in their crowds to see the Royal visitors, though it might have tended to dampen • popular enthusiasm. I learn that at the Court ball last night the Em press was wearing her famous pearls. King Ed ward appeared in the uniform of the valiant Bliicher Hussars, of which he is honorary colonel.* An ex ceptional feature of the occasion was the dancing before the Throne of a minuet, In which one hun dred couples took part, including all the Royal Prin cesses. CORDIAL LANGUAGE FROM ENGLAND. London, February 11. The Westminster Gazette writes, on the all-en grossing topic of the Royal visit to Berlin: “To no one will the meeting of King Edward and’the (Continued on page 2.)
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