a*? ' 1 -M ^&B&0~ /• (lass Ftff) Book (~i 76 **F*H Bom in Kentucky, February 12 1809 Elected to Illinois Legislature 1834 Admitted to Illinois Bar 18: ^ Member of Congress ^ S y Joint Debates with Douglass 185° President of United States I860 Emancipation Proclamation, September 13 1862 Re-elected President J**™ Assassinated April 15 18e DICKINSON BROTHERS ENGRAVERS PRINTERS GRAND RAPIDS "I In the occasion ( orresponding to this four years ciously direi ted to an im- pending civil w.u Ml dreaded it; .ill sought t" it. While the inaugural address was delivered from this place, devoted altogethei t'> - i \ i n v I n without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking t< • destroy it without war." ANNUAL BANQUET INCOLN REPUBLICAN CLUB YOUNG MEN'S REPUBLICAN CLUB GRAND RAPIDS. FRIDAY EVENING!, FEBRUARY 27 /m IN COMMEMORATION OF LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY. AUDITORIUM <3 R A Psl D RARIDS, IVI I CH IC3 A N . 1 hort speech known as the "Gettysburg Address," is the noblest of Lincoln's public utter- It was delivered 1 19, 1 563, while the civil war was in progress. Yet it is utterly free from any spirit of animosity t" foes; it v tlic devotion of a nation to those who had died in il 1 in this briel mty and pathos which cause it tu rival any ol thi more ornate orations delivered on sim- ..IIS." J^OURSCORE and seven years ago our ADDRESS at the *IF fathers brought forth upon this conti- Dcdication Of nent a new nation, conceived in liberty, Gettysburg Cemetery. an j dedicated to the proposition that all men November lit, 1863. are created free and equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field I a ted war: but one would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. " Gettysburg as a ^ na l resting-place for those who here AddRSS. gave their lives that that nation might live. (Continued.) It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devo- tion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion ; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the -people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, .is God gives us t.. sue the right, let us strive cm tn tinish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care i"i him whoshallhave borne the battle, and t.n his widow and orphans; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. - ' OFFICERS Lincoln Republican Club. BANQUET COMMITTEES ROBERT D. GRAHAM, Claud R. Buchanan, E. R. Bloomek, Harkv L. Ckeswell, Milton V-elzy, Otis N. Watson, Arthur J. Free, Clay H Hoi.i.ister, President 1st Vice President 2nd Vice President 3d Vice President 4th Vice President 5th Vice President Secretary Treasurer a; OFFICERS Young Men's Republican Club. ROY C. LYLE, R. M. Ferguson, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Walter -H. Brooks, President Vice President Secretary Treasurer John Patton, Daniel McCoy, A. H. Vandenberg, M. H. Carmody. John W. Blodgett, Charles S. Burch, S. W. Barker, H. D. C. VanAsmus. Rufus S. French, Ed. M. Barnard, Otis N. Watson, Charles M. Owen. Roy S. Barnhart, Clay H. Hollister, Walter H. Brooks, Wm. Alden Smith, Eugene D. Conger, Thomas M. Koon, Alfred Wolcott, Justus S. Stearns, E. J. Adams. JQUET Alvah W. Brown, Wm. H. Boyns, Benj. C. Porter, Charles B. Kelsey, I. F. Lamoreaux, Wm. J. Landman. * Frank J. Cook, E. B. Bell, George E. Luther, Allen K. Moore, W. J. Hurley, Glenn P. Thayer, Elvin Swarthout, Ganson Taggart, John C. Brown, Harvey L. Brown, Alex. Leishman, Harry C. Stewart, James A. Coye, I. W. Woodworth, I. J. Lemon, CD EC=Of Franklin D. Eddy, Frank I. Blake, J. W. Toan, Lester J. Rindge, A. S. Musselman, Ed. O'Donnell, Eugene W. Jones, Frank N. Worley, Louis Prager. John L. Boer, Earl R. Stewart, Samuel DeLong. tvi USIC Jacob Steketee, Albert Carroll, S. J. Hufford. Harry L. Creswell, H. H. Tinkham, Frank L. Bean. Sam Braudy, John I. Koperski, Stanley Jackowski. Robert T. Logie, John A. Verkerke, LeRoy Palmer. 'OF^TATIOPM Oscar E. Kilstrom, S. M. Lemon, James Schriver. Harry D. Jewell, Chairman, Assisted by membership of both Clubs. " Both read the same Bible, and pray in the same i Sod; ami each invokes 1 1 ii aid against iht- other.' WE ARE COMING FATHFR ABRA'AM. 1. We are coming. Fa - ther Abra'am, three hun-dred thousand more, From 2. If you look a - cross the hilltops that meet the north-em sky, Long 3. If you look all up our val leys, Wr.ere the grow.ing harvests shine, Tou may 4. You have called us aud we're commg, by Kichmoud's bkjod-y tide, To . -^ *r_E >-l_, __ -I + + • -!-»< /- Mis-sis-sip-pi's winding stream and from New England'3 sho-e; We leave our plows and moving lines of ris - ing dust your vis-ion may des-cry; And now the wind, and see our sturd-y far -mer boys last forming in - to line; Aud chil • dren trom then lay us down for freedom's sake, our brothers bones beside; Or from foul trea-son's workshops our wives and children dear, With hearts to full for ut - ter-anco, with in • stan t, tears the clou-dy veil a - side. And floats a -loft our spangled flag in mother's knees are pull -ing at the weeds, And learn-ing how to reap and sow, a- savage group,to wrench the murderous blade.Aod in the face cf for-eign kes it* /_U_ * — /-J-/ — * — > 1 — but a si - lent tear ; We dare not look be • hind us, but stead-fast • ly be- glo - ry aud In pride; And bayonets in the sunlight gleam, and bands brave music gainst their country's needs; And a farewell group stands weep-ing at eve - ry cot-tage fragments to pa rade ; Six hundred thousand loy -al men and true have gone be- - A. ._ , — / — > > *-!-> i — I •*- • fore. pour, We are coming, Fa - ther Abra'am, three hun-dred thousand more, door, • fore, Chorus. Tbnors. we are coming, Our Un - ion to re - store, We are -v^r f-^af- vh r- J-r4 - — ^-f- V '• / com-ing, Fa -ther Abra'am, with three hun-dred thousand We /TV are ieE»3=i=f= t=i - t -0 • - Jl II com-ing, Fa - ther Abra'am, with three Lun - deed thous-and more. N k- ^ - - - - ^ * -*-* — r -i- o3 s H»ROGRAM BY FURNITURE CITY O Ft G H ESTFt A. March, ''Drummer Boy of '7(1' Selection, "The Burgomaster" Waltz, "Jolly Fellows" Gavotte, "Dawn of Love March, "Bill Bailey" Overture, "Crown Diamonds" Selection, "King Dodo" Caprice, " Blue Violets" . "Reene" March, "Old and New Ellh. Luders. Volhtedt. Brooks. Cannon. Rollinson. Luders. Eilenberg. Strauss. Foreman. Progr am da 11 to ©rber, ROY c. lyle (Pres. Young Mens Republican Club.) 3rtO0Cati0Tt, Rev. MATTHEW KOLYN BANQUET. Untitling Statue of Cincoln, "America" by Audience. 3ntrobucttoti of (Eoastm aster, Hon. Robert d. graham (Pres. Lincoln Republican Club.) (Zoastmastcr, ARTHUR C. DENISON. Hon. Frederick g. landis, "Ctjc Republican party. Mr. HAROLD jarvis, " Sons of the Hear ©lb ^lag. Hon. LUTHER LAFLIN MILLS, "Abraham Stncolu. Hon. JOHN L. GRIFFITHS, "dbc Keal 2l\lsIjiligtoil. Mr. jarvis, " Sworb of Sunker Ejill. ]. HAMPTON moore, "Organisation.' (Pres. National League of Republican Clubs.) Mr. jarvis, Selecteb " 1 1 we shall suppose that American slavery is one .. which in the providence of God must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, lie now wills to re- move, and thai 1 l< gives t" both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom ill we discern therein any d( parture from those divine attributes which the be- God l lim?" m cnu. ©Hoes ©yster (Eocktail fait Waicvs pickles deleru •Ibickctt pie £sca Hopco potatoes £abbage f aIa^ <£olb 8am aitb Deal Assorted ^ruit Coffee ^rieb (lakes Olrachers oZbcoi (Cigars / ¥ Av< **** ~»F\ It f ^S» ^ '" ^•§g|fe§£ -'• LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 012 026 412 6 g& yu ass b^^ u yzyithJ .W :^j«,sj>9*