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 (1919) (14769624605)

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Title: 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

Year: 1919 (1910s)

Authors: Richardson, William H., 1864-1937

Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln Association of Jersey City

Publisher: (Jersey City) : Jersey City Printing Co.

Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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for a few days. A psychological change didappear in the copperhead papers, and the Standard re-acted like therest. Its column rules were upset on the inside pages so as to stripethose two pages and divide the columns with black lines about one-eighth of an inch broad. That is, all those two pages were in mourning,except a space about 1 0 inches deep at the top of the first two columnson page 3; they displayed a circus advertisement, with cuts of prancinghorses and fuzzily dressed lady performers, and it made the mourninglook like a joke. Mayor Cleveland got himself much disliked by thecircus people for refusing a license to the show; he told them that thepeople of Jersey City were going to frame their conduct with somesolemnity at such a time, and they really didnt need a circus to help out. Then the Standard printed personals, in which the subscribersdeclared they had never said they were glad the President was shot,as had been charged by other wicked people, who were particularly 29

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called upon to desist from spreading such a slander. On April 25tli,it reprinted a scathing article from the Times of April 22nd, entitledWho were the Accessories? Major Pangborn had written the originaleditorial, and had named by name who some of them were, andby very broad suggestion, who some others were. With a peculiarlyholy hurt, the Standard reprinted the Majors article under a new head,Alas, for the Rarity of Christian Charity! To him it ascribed thissinful lack of this greatest virtue. Here are a few specimens of its diction: For months past, as all men know, there have been in the loyalnorth scores of crafty men, reckless demagogues, whose almost soleemployment has been the personal, base, unscrupulous abuse and de-nunciation of President Lincoln. * * * They have paused at nolie however monstrous, have stuck at no lie however base, have scrupledat using no means however vile, to malign, traduce, and make him hated.Here in Jersey City as elsewhere these men have denounced Abr

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