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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 27.

114 the hour of his great work done, President
Lricour has fallen. Not, indeed, in the flush of
triumph, for no thought of triumph was in that
honest and humble heart, nor in the intoxication
el
applause, for the fruits of victory were not yet
gathered in his band, was the Chief of the American
people, the foremost man in the great Christian
revolution of our age, struck down. But his task
was, nevertheless, accomplished, and the battle of
his life was won. So he passes away from the heat
and the toil that still have to be endured, full of
the honour that belongs to one who has nobly done
his part, and carrying in his lest thoughts the sense
of deep steadfast thankfulness that he now could
see the assured coining of that end for which he
had so long striven in faith and hope. Who shall
pity or lament such a death, while the tears of a
nation fall upon his corpse, and the world softly
speaks bow true and good he was ? Who will not
bow the head submissive to the inscrutable decree
which mocks our plans and fancies, but even in
our sorrow makes us feel that it is wiser, juster,
kinder, than our vain wishes might have been?
For in all time to come, not among Americans
only, but among all who think of manhood as
wore than rank, and set worth above display, the
name of ABRAHAM LiNcouc will be held in re-
Terence. Rising from among the poorest of the
people, winning his slow way upwards by sheer
hard work, preserving in every successive stagea
&erecter unspotted and a name untainted, securing
a wider respect as be became better known, never
pretending to more than he was, nor being less
than he professed himself, he was at length for
very singleness of heart and uprightness of con-
duct, because all felt that they could trust him
utterly, and would desire to be guided by his
irmness, courage, and sense, planed in the chair
of President at the turning point of his nation's
history. A life so true, rewarded by a dignity so
. .

majestic, was defence enough against the petty
shafts of malice which party spirit, violent enough
to light • civil war, aimed against him. The
lowly callings he had first pursued became his
titles to greater respect among `those whose
respect was worth having ; the little ex-
ternal rusticities only showed more brightly,
as the rough matrix the golden ore, the true
dignity of his nature. Never was any one,
set in such high place, and surrounded with
so many motives of furious detraction, so little
impeached of aught blameworthy. The bitterest
enemy could find no more to lay to his charge than
that his language was sometimes too homely for a
supersensitive taste, or that he conveyed in a jesting
phrase what they deemedmoresuited for a statelier
style. But against these specks, what thorough
nobility have we not to set ? A purity of thought,
word, and deed never challenged, • disinterested-
ness never suspected, an honesty of purpose never
impugned, a gentleness and tenderness that never
made a private enemy or alienated a friend—these
are indeed qualities which may well make • nation
mourn. But he bad intellect as well as goodness.

Cautiously conservative, fearing to pass the limits
of established systems, seeking the needful amend-
ments rather from growth than alteration, he
proved himself in the crisis the very man best
suited for his post. He held back the ardent
while he gave confidence to the timid, his
reluctance to innovate did not prevent him from
recognising and accepting the changes in
the situation which the progress of events
'brought to pass, and the firmness with
which he refused to proceed faster than they war-
ranted was equalled by the tenacity with which
be refused to retire from the position he had at
last thought it right to take up. So four years of
trial convinced his countrymen that there was none
among them who could better fill his place. And
there can be no doubt that in his known respect
for established rights, as well as in his known
justice, impartiality, and benevolence,i South as
well as North bad begun to look upon him as their
surest friend, and se the safe arbiter in whom they
could both trust to exact no more and to claim no
less than might suffice to make their reconciliation
perpetual.
But be bar fallen, and by a Southern hand. We
cannot as yet tell the motive that urged the
treacherous blow, but the fact that two had con-
spired to murder, the one the PRESIDENT, the other
the SECRETARY of &Jai, shows that at least then
is not insanity to be reckoned as a possible ex-
planation. But we will not, without overwhelm-
ing proof, let the horrible conspiracy, or the
phrases of its actors, lead us to lay it to the charge
of abettors in the South. We will not doubt that
from what lately was the Southern Government
and people there will come at once earnest dis-
avowals of any knowledge of the medit►ted crime,
and that if the murderer of Mr. SEWARD has
reached the territory their power yet holds, he
will be seized and surrendered as one guilty of a
*rime against humanity itself. On no other terms