New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1915, Page 3

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T. £ BROWN WAS BELIEVER IN SLAVERY Personal Memorics of Abraham Lie- coln Toid by Baptist Pastor. An interesting address on “Personal | nmemories associated with the death of Abraham Lincoln” was given yester- day morning by Rev. Dr. T. Edwin 2rown at the first Baptist church, Dr, Brown was born in Washington and his environment made him a svmpathizer of the South and the in- stitution of slavery. In one of his college essays he undertook to prove the right of slavery from the Bible. The mother of some chidren with whom he Jften played as a boy was hung as a conspirator for = Lincoln R . DR. T. EDWIN BROWN. murder. The story of his experiences with President Lincoln and of the change in his attitude toward him was, therefore, listened to with much interest by Dr. Brown's audience yes- terday morning. The address follows. Almost a century after Washington died, his present successor in the presidential office wrote concerning that event: Woodrow W n on Lincoln. “He was calm the day through as in a time of battle; knowing what betided but not fearing it; steady, roble, a warrior figure to the last; and he died as those who loved him might have wished to see him die. The country knew him when he was dead, knew the majesty the nobility, the unsullied greatness of the man who was gone, and knew not whether He could not serve them any more But they saw his light shine already upon the future as upon the past un(} were glad.” The circumstancef attending Abra: kam Lincoln’s death were in striking contrast to those of Washington. But death for the one, as for the other, was the great revealer. And the words quoted apply cqually to both: “The country knew them when they were dead:;: knew the majesty, the nobility, the unsullied greatness of the men who had gone.” Fifty years ago tomorrow the body of Abraham Lincoln was started on its long slow jcurney from the White House in ‘Washington to the tomb in Spring- field, 11l. Recalling the happenings of those most momentous and mournful days fifty years ago, with a sense of personal grief, whose poignancy the passing years have softened but not lessened, it has seemed to me that I might be serving well the younger people whom the ministry might touch if I should try in a very simple way to set you back amid the events and emotions of that tragic time. I talk with you now as if we were sit- ting together in your home. Dr. Brown's Youth. The city in which Lincoln died was the city in which I had my birth and my upbringing to early manhood. Where Ford’s theater stood In 1864, stood, a few ars before, the meeting house of the First Baptist church, the Christian body of which my great- uncle was the faithful pastor for over forty-two years. In that sanctuar my father and mother worshipped, and to its choir gallery where they gang, I was taken as a _little child. In the baptistry of that church I made my confession of faith in Christ. Under the roof that later covered that holy ground and those palimsests of sacred memories, Lincoln was shot. Opposite the church stood. and till stands, a three-story brick house, occupied in my boyhood by a famil whose two sons were my intimates. I was often in that home. In the gmall room at the end of the first floor hall Lincoln died. Among the delights of my boyhood were frequent STOMACH UPSET.? Get At the Real Cause—Take Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets That's what thousands of stomach suf- ferers are doing now. 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They had as neighbors, a mile away, a family named Stewart, a widow and two children. With these children I often played. The mother was hung as a conspirator for Lincoln’s murder, The son, John H., escaped to Europe, W brought back and tried for con- spiracy but not convicted. Relatives Slave Owners, We are in many ways creatures of our environment. This is especially true of the opinions we form in our ¢heldhood and youth, My environ- ment was entirely southern. Washing- ton was then a southern city, My schoolmates and collegemates were southern. I saw slavery in the mild- est and most patriarchal form in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Some of my relatives and many of my friends were slave owner I was taught to believe that slavery for the black mun was of divine appointment. One of my college essays undertook to prove the right of slavery, from the Bible. I say this to show you that if I had been a voter in the fall of 1860, I should not have voted for Mr. Lincoln. But 1 revolted at the thought of disunion, of secession, of states dis- severed, discordant, belligerent.” ‘When in Feburary, 1862, the Con- federate government was organized, blue rosettes, worn by its adherents and sympathizers appeared in large numbers on the city streets. L speedily fastened a red, white and Liue rosette on the lapel of my own coat, First Sight of Lincoln. first sight of Mr. inauguration My on his Lincoln was The walks were lined with spectators from the White House to the capitol. The day was bright and But suspicion and fear made human atmosphere electric. The roofs of the buildings on cither slde of the avenue held armed sentinels. Nnbody knew what might happen. I was one of the throng, wearing proudly my tri-color, and for.more than on hour, while waiting for the procession 1 talked with an “I Know it all” air to a Lincoln elector from Ohio on the grave issues of the day There he was, the new president, sur- reunded by a troop of caval riding close to his carriage, thc rugged ir- regular features, homely face, the lank figure, the long arm waiving, an otu of style silk hat, tne railsplitter, the western demagogue. How T hated the sight of him. What a con- trast he was to the silver haired ccurtly statesman, the ex-president, ~ho rode by his side. His coming seemed prophetic of national disaster. I had many after opportunities of seeing Lincoln, on the street, at an occasional reception, and during the spring and summer when I stood on the south portico of the White house amid the beauty and fragrance of the bower of honeysuckle bloom, listening to the music of the marine band and watching the president through an cpen window, In March, 1862, by reason of an ac- cident to the sanctuary, whither we had removed from the old church on Tenth street, our congregation held an afternoon service in the New York avenue Presbyterian church, located rear the White House. 1 often at- tended morning service there and be- came a fellow worshipper with the president. I recall now the ecager devoutne: of his dcmeanor in the sanctuary. His pastor, Dr. Gurle tells how Mr. Lincoln on the mid- week service night would often enter the pastor’s room and through a part- iy open door enjoy, unobserved, the devotions which he declared greatly refreshed him. day. side- balmy. the Became Bropklyn Pastor. In November, 1862, I became a pas- tor ip Brooklyn, N. Y. I was in a new environment., My after breakfast news diet was the New York Tribune. My friends and parishioners were mostly republican, some radicals. They knew my southern upbringing and were generous. They never talked politics to me. They left me to work cut my problems for myself, God bless their patient, kindly hearts. I became of voting age just before leaving home, but two Novembers passed and I did not vote. The rain came down in torrents on the election day of November, 186¢. Polling hooths were few and voters many. For one hour and a half 1 stood in the line eagerly waiting my chance. On either side of me was a deacon, a sort of guard of honor. For they realized how full of moment the oc- casion was to me, for that morning T shook off the influences of an old cnvironment and accepted influences of a new one ballot for Abraham Lincoln for presi- dent of the United States. The act was the full and honest confession of ; my Jjudgment and my vears of candid thought my profoundest admiration for the sagacity, courage and political prin- ciples of Lincoln, the statesman, and my warm affection for the simplicity. the nobleness, the tenderness and decp yeilgiousness of Lincoln the man. (le was my Abraham Lincoln now, Good Friday, April 14, 1865, was a day of quiet, grateful happiness throughout the loyal United State: John Hay tells us in his Life of Lin- coln, that even among the most de- vout the great tidings of the preced- ing week, exerted their joyous in- fitence and changed this period of traditional mourning, into an oc sion of general and profound thanks- gliving, Peace so long rought andg prayed for with prayers uttered and unutterable, was at last near at hand its dawn Vvisible on the redder ing hills. The sermons all weer full of gladness, the misereres {urned themselves to Te¢ Deums, T'he country from morning till even- ing was filled with a solemn joy. On the fourth of March the country had listened to that remarkable public document, the second inaugural 1t wits as it one of the old prophets had spoken weh absence of all sense of personal (riumph, such clear vision of the errors and sins of both sides in heart. Two naa secured { the great contest, and of the just debt the entire na- tone of per- will to all, the black race by Such Mmelodious and good aue tion. fect kindness whether enemies or political oppon- ents. Good Friday Events, “It was the sort of a speech,” com- mented the New York Times, after Lincoln’s death, “as a Christian states- man would gladly have his last—ear- nest, humane, truly religious, filled with forgiveness and good will.” On April Z Petersburg was evacu- ated. On April 3 Richmond surren- dered. On April 4 the president visited Richmond. On April 9 at Ap- pomattox Lee surrendered to Grant. You who were unborn then cannot imagine the glad exultation with which men went about their tasks or their worship on that - Good Fri- day in April, 1865. For as the «limax of the series of culminating events, on that 14th of April Robert Anderson raised over the ruins Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, the identical flag which had been lowered and saluted by him on April 14, 1861, in surrender to the Con- federate In Washington, wrote John Hay, the day was one not so much of exul- tation as of deep peace and thankful- ness. It was the fifth day after the surrender of l.ee; the first efferves- cence of the intoxicating success had passed away. The president had, with that ever present sense of respohsibil- ity which distinguished him, given his thoughts instantly to the momentous question of the restoration of the uvnion, and of harmony between the lately warring sections. #He had in defiance of precedent and even of his own habit, delivered to the people on the evening of the 11th from the window of the White House his well considered views on the measures de- manded by the times. His whole heart was now enlisted ‘in the work of “binding up the nation's wounds. and doing all which might achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace.” Shooting of Lincoln. Saturday morning my New York Times was late in arriving, not until almost half past nine did T find it on the door sill Midws up the stairs the head-line the first column on the first page caught my eye. “‘An Awful Event, the President Shot Last Night Ford's Theater. No Possible hope. T uttered a loud cry, then it seemed us if my heart stopped veating. I clutched ,the hand-rail, T sat down on the stairs, where my wire soon found me sobbing. ““Oh, what is the matter,” she said. I could not speak. I could*only hand Ler the paper. She read a moment and then was sobbing at my side. There were millions of us that morn- ing—a whole nation of us—in tears. It was as when there “was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a hcouse where there was not one dead.” 1 went into the street, only to learn that the great soul that had borne for four dreadful years, the burden of his people’s agony, ana who- - had cqually suffered with the south as well as by them—was at Test. At iwenty-two minutes past seven he died, leaving a look of unspeakable peace on his worn features. Work in the study was imposible that day. The preparations for an Faster sermon were laid aside. 1In the evening a text came: “God Is Our Refu-e and Strength. A very present help in trouble.” Next morning it rained but the storm, for once, did not thin the congregation. 1 went to the pulpit with my text and little clse and to a weeping people seated within walls hung with the sombre draperies that symbolized our woe. I gave with broken uttcrance the in- spiv d assurance of the divine help. The Shock to the People. I could not yet utter as my own and my people’s faith the human arswer to the assurance of the text: “Therefore will not we fear though the earth be removed.” For we were not yet standing in that place of con- fidence. We were shocked, be- ntmbed, afraid. The fall from the height of the Good Friday's gladness to the depth of that Easter’'s gloom had paralyzed us. Monday noon I went to the Fulton street prayer meeting, then and for many years a source of spiritual uplift for the whole country. If you could have heard the prayers, cries from the depths with now and then a gleam of faith. And the ad- dresses, with now and then a flash of vengeful anger, only to be rebuked by some following speaker ,as wholly contrary to the very divine charity of the beloved leader we had lost. On Wednesday, the 19th, reverent hands bore the body from the White House'to the funeral car which con- veyed it to the rotunda of the capitol, where it lay in state until Friday, when it began the long journey. In every church throughout the northern slates there were church services that On Monday, the 24th the pro- cession reached New York. With m) friend, Dr. Strong. the father of your beloved form pastor, 1 stood amid the vast throng that filled the southern area of the City Hall park. The rain fell heavi As the casket W borne up the s s a thousand voices from the German Sangerbunds chanted a funeral hymn, amid falling tears, copious as the rain drops. The Funcral I'rocession, on Tuesday a proc on, milltary and civie, filling the street from curb to curb with its alignment, and four hours in passing, marched amid the multitudes that thronged the side- walks and every ajlable window, watching with misty eves the funcral and escorted the dead hero to the train that was to carry him west- ward. Springfield, Illinois, was reached on the third of May, On the fourth in the Oak Ridgc cemetery the Lody of the martyred president was committed to the soil of the state which had so loved and honored him. The friends of Raphael chose the wonderful canvas of the transfigura- tion us the chief ornament of his funeral, So the weightest and most cloquent words uttered Lincoln’s al were his own, his incomparable ind Inmugural. We cannot hear (oo often the sentence, “With malice toward none; witi charity for all; with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work in; to bind up the nation's to care for him who shall have born the bat- Closing we are wounds; of | e and for his widow and his orphan —to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” Impressions of Death, This is not theeplace to speak of those elements in Lincoln’s character which have given him a place in the honor and affection of Americans which only Washington equals, but whieh even he does not surpass. 1 have sought this morning simply to relieve my own surcharged feeling by recalling for myself and for you some of the impressions made upon one young American heart by the dread- ful happenings of thosc sad pril a 3 ago! Oh, the shame of it: the horrid waste of it; as viewed in the light of God’'s providential rule, the yet un- solved mystery of it. Oh, the unui- terable pi nd pathos of it all, For who of us living then, and feeling joy that ‘the cruel w. over, did not feel a wrench of soul at the thougat that our wise, sympathetic mag- nanimous Lincoln could not enter himself into the promised land up to whose borders he had led us, and that he had not been spared to save us from the cruel shame of our reconstruc- own policy of mercy. crown his great (Jife as the wound healer and recon- ciler, as he was the liberator and the savior of his country, Grant said of him: “With disappointments from failure part of those to whom he had en- trusted commands, and from treach- ery on tne part of those who had gained his confidence only betr: it, T never heard him utter a com- plaint, nor cast a censure for bad conduct or bad faith.” Waldo all his on the to talph after Kme to A fow days the \Iph - Waldo grew according mind mastered the { day. If ever A man was fairly test- ed, he was. There was no lack ot resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridi- cule. . Then what an occasion was the whirlwind of the war! Here was no place for holiday magistrate, nor fair weather sailor. The new pilot was hurried to the helm in a tornado. In four years—four years of battle da his endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried and never found wanting. There, by his courage, his justice, his even temper, his fertile counsel, Tis humanity, he stood a heroic figure in the center of a heroic epoch He is the true history of the American peo- ple in his time; the true representa- tive of this continent, the father of his country, the pulse of twenty mil- lions trobbing in ‘ais heart, the thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. assg rson wrote: the need. problem of the Commemoration Ode. In the commemoration ode at Har- vard, Lowell sang of him: ““How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind, indeed, Who loved h to lead; whose meek joyed to be, Not lured by any cheat of birth, But. by his clear grained human worth, And brave old wisdow of sincerity. They knew that outward grace dust; They could not choose, In that sure-footed ing skill And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust., His was no lonely mountain peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air, o'er our cloudy bars, A sea mark now, now lost in vafor blin Broad prairie lined— Fruitful and kind— Yet also nigh to heaven, and loved of loftiest stars, Here was a type of the true elder race And one of Plutarch’s men talked with us face to face, T praise him not: it were too late And some unnative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the present gives and cannot + wait, Safe in himself as if in a fate. So always firmly he; He knew to bide his time, And can ais fame abide, Still patient in his simple lime { Till the wi Great captains drums Disturh our judgment for But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and standing like | a tower— »ur children shall hehold his fame, The kindly, earnest, brave, foresceing man \gacious, patient, dreading, dreading praise not blame— birth of our new American.” Or as Tennyson sang at the burial of Wellington: § “Hush, the Dead March wails in the | people’s cars, | wd moves and there are sobs and tears black earth disappears. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, He is gone who seemed so great Gone, but nothing can bereave Of the force he made his own Being here, and believe him Something far advanced in state, And that he wears a truer crown That any wreath that man can weave him."” charge, but never loved One flock the people is but trust mind’s unfalter- rather, genial, level- friendly for all human faith sub- vears decide, with their guns and the hour, New soil—the first | The dark ¢ The yawns, the mortal him we Helen the Mr, and Mrs. Her ford, city, i Dix, young rt N Stanley daughter of Hart- 4‘ this Dix of formerly of street, veported 1o he on the r Veton oy haspital, e an operation Tor appendicitis and then developed pneu- | For o time lite of, but now that she she will be able fricnds In 0 week or so, at rancis ently underwent maonii, her was de- spaired is re covering to see her tive blunders and, by carrying out his | | Tusday Special Afri Palm Beach Cle $1.25 yard . 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