The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 51, July 1947 - April, 1948 Page: 204
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Fort Worth Record carried a large picture of Lincoln and a
copy of the Gettysburg Address on its front page on Lincoln's
centennial birthday and the next day carried a full report on
the dedication exercises in Kentucky. The Dallas News, the
Houston Chronicle, the San Antonio Express, and numerous
other papers carried stories of the celebrations in Kentucky and
in other places. In almost every case the stories were on the
front page and were given large headlines.,"
A few of the papers recognized the Lincoln centennial by
publishing editorials on the murdered president. The San An-
tonio Express declared:
Today marks the centennial anniversary of the birth of Abraham
Lincoln, the first Republican to occupy the Presidential office, and
universally conceded to be one of the greatest of American statesmen
in all the essentials of greatness.
After explaining that it was in no way surprising that Lincoln
should have been hated by the South while the war was in
progress, the editorial continues:
It is no less surprising that he should be loved by the South when
the passions of war had subsided and the people had learned to
appreciate the great qualities of heart and mind for which he was
distinguished and when it was fully understood that his death at the
time it occurred was the greatest misfortune that could have befallen
the South.1
The Houston Post, in the editorial already mentioned, was
equally generous: '
North and South the people unite in revering his memory and
according him all the honors which are justly due the great. What-
ever may have been the differences which divided the country during
the years of his ascendency, all men stand ready to concede that in
a great crisis he was loyal to his convictions of duty, that he bore
his great responsibilities with infinite patience and that in all things
he was free from sectional hatred and personal malice.'s
16Fort Worth Record, February is, 19o09, February 13, agog; Dallas News, Febru-
ary is, 19o09, February ig, 1909; Houston Chronicle, February 1i, 19o09, February
13, 19o09; Galveston News, February 12, 19o09, February i3, 1909og; San Antonio
Express, February 19, 19gog, February 13, 19o09; Houston Post, February 12, 1909,
February 13, 19o9.
17San Antonio Express, February 12, 19o9.
"sHouston Post, February 12, 19o9.20o4
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