The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-19 00:00:00

EMERSON ON PRESIDENT LINCOLN.

The following address was delivered by Ralph
Waldo Emerson, in Ooscord. Mannachuvetts, an oocation of
the funeral services in hoover of Mr. Lined' :
W• meet adder the gloom of • calemtty whisk darkens
down over the minds of good men in all chiliad seinety,
ea the fearful tidings travel over mei, over land, from country
to country, like the shadow d en =calculated eclipse ewer
the planet. Old as history is and manifold as are its tragedies
I doubt if any death has caused as =cab pile to mankind
at this has counsel, or will oasis, on its announoemeat and
this not so mash because =lime are, by modern da
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brought no closely together, as beau of the mysterious
hopes and fears which, in the present day, are
ecalectod with the name and Institutions of America.
In this country, on Saturday, every one was Mau*
dumb, and saw, at first, only deep below deep, as he
meditated on the ghastly blow. And, pedalos, at
this hour, when the oUn' which meta= the dust of the
President ate forward an its long march through mousing
States, on its way to his home is Illisois, we might well be
sliest, and suffer the awful voices of the time to amber
to as. Yea, bat that first despair was brief the ma was
not so to be mourned. He was the mate e sad herbal
of men ; and hie work had not ; acclamatiess
of pre= for the task he had amoniplished burst out late a
song of triumph, which even Use for his death cannel •
keep down. lb, President stood Wave as • mon
of the people. He was thoroughly American, bad
never erased the sea, had never boon spoiled by Eng-
lish insalarity, or Preach bobbies ; • qui= native, abori-
ginal nu, as ea worn frees the ath ; no aping of fordo-
see. so frivolous amompliehmeato, Lennockiait bon,
working on • fans, • Sabotage, • captain in the
Illaahawk war, • country lawyer, I representative in the
rain legislature of Illinois—on each modest foundations
I• the Mad structure of hie fame was laid. How .lowly, sod
yet by happily prepared step, he cans to his plane. All
of ill remember—it is only • Maar el live or six his surprise a= disappointment of the reentry at his fiat
nembation at Chicago. Mr. Seward, then in the calininstion
of his good fame, was the favourite ri the Misters bass.
And wit= the new and comparative! y =known name of
Urea was annum= (notwitbaimbei the report of the
animations of that wieution) we bud the malt =ldly
and sadly. It seemed too rah, on a purely local repute-
Yon, to build so grove • tut, is en= serious times ;
'ad men naturally talked ei the °haus in polities es is-
sabalable. But It turned out a= to be chases. The pro-
bead good opinion blab the people ol ILinois and of the
West bad conceived cd him, and which they bad impaled
to their collage= that they also might biddy thaseebm
to their constilueote at ham, was not sash, though they
Moot begin to =ow the richwes of his worth. A plan
Ms of the people, an antraordinary forts= burled
Lord Bacon says, "Manifest virtues procure reputation ;
omit saes, fortune." He offered no shining qualities at
the fhb encounter; did not caul by superiority. He hal
a face and manner which disarmed easpicioa, which implied
ereadenos, which confirmed goodwill. He was • man with-
out vices. Be had • strong am= al duty which it w= very
easy for him so obey. Then ha had whet farmers called •
long head ; was expellest in working out the sum for him-
self, in arguing his area sad eausineing ana fairly and firmly.
Thee it tam= out that he was • great worker, bad pro-
digious faculty of patinas= worked early •A good
worker is so rare ; everybody has some di obi* quality. In
a bet of young men that start together, and proems in
many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails op Irbil;
one by bad health, one by commit or by love at piano" or
liy lethargy, or by an hasty temper has some dim
=saying fault that throws him out of the career.
But this man was pound to the core, aboorfal,
persistent, all right for labour, and liked main
so well. Then he bad • vast good nature, which made
him tolerant and amiable so all; fair-minded, leasing
to as claim of the =blinker, affable, and net see-
'ibis to the atiliotios which the inanmerable visits pal to
him, when President, would have brought to anyone oleo
And how this good =tam beau= a noble humanly in
many • tania case whisk' the events of the war braced. to
him everyone will remember, and with what ineneadsg
Madera= he dealt when • whole ram was throws on hie
eampamio?. The poor negro said al him, on an impend=
common, Mama Lab= sic biery whim" Theo his bead
good humour, amain gaily into bottler talk, in bile* Ins
delighted ad is which M =celled. was • rich gift to this
wise man. It ambled him to keep his secr to meet every
hied of man and every rank in y, tot,ke off the edge
of the severest decisions, to maskhis own pin pose and
mound his companies, and to coati with true matioet the
temper of every company he addrammid. Aud. more than all.
it it to • man of severe Labmr in anxious and =hunting
crises, the manual restorative, good as sleep, and is the par
testioc of the overdriven brain against rancour and insanity.
Hie occupying the chair of state wen • triumph of the good
lease of =aided and of the public coafideam. This middle-
clam country has got • middle-clam President at last. Yes, •
in manners, sympathies, bat not In powers, for his powers I
were superior. His mind mastered the problem of thee
and, as the problem grew, so did his oompeausion of it. •
Barely was man so fitted to the event. In the ebbe WI
haze and jealousies, in the Babb of counsels and putiells
this man wrought incessantly with all hie might and all his
honesty, labouring to had what the people wanted, and bow
to obtain that. It comsat be said then is any exaggeration
•of hie worth. If over • roan was fairly test= be wee. •
There was no lack of reshapes. nor of 'leader, nor
d ridicule. The times have allowed no State se-
crete ; the nation has been in such • ferment, Boob multi-
tudes had to be trusted, that no secret could be kept.
Every door was ajar, and we know all that betel. Then
what an occasion wee the whirlwind of the war l Here was
place for DO holiday =mamas, no feit•weathar sailor ;
the new pilot was hurried to the helm in a tornado. In
four yeare—the four pare of battle-daye—his =durance,
his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were may
tried and never found =bias. Thera, by his courage, his
ja his oven temper, hie fertile cionnoal, his Lousily,
ha 'toed an heroic figure in the comae c/ an heroic epooo,
He is the true history of the Americas people in hie time.
Step by step he walked before them; slow with their slow.
noes, quickening his march by theirs ; the true repro-
=native of this continent; an entliely public man ;
father of his country, the pubs el twenty cal-
la= throbbing in his beast, the thought of their
nibs =doubt= by, hie beg= Adam Smith remarks
that this are which in Houhrakos's portrata of British
kings sod worthies is engraved under there who have =f-
lab at the block adds • certain lofty charm to the pie.
tare. And who does not ems, even in this tragedy so rout,
how feat the terror sad rub al the mamas= are already
burning into glory around the victim! Far happier thin
fate than to have lived to be wished away ; to have
watched the decay of hie own faculties ; to have aeon
wham, bee be—the proverbial ingratitude of Datum ;
to have moo mom men preferred. Had be not lived long
• enough to keep the greatest promise that ever men mode
to hie fellow-tufa—the practical UAW= of slavery! He
had men Tennessee, Missouri, and Maryland emancipate
their alarm. Be had seen Savannah, Chabot= and
Richmond surroodered ; had seen the main army of
the rebellion lay down Ile acme. Ho had =squared the
public opinion of Canada, England, and Frau. On:y
Washington an compare with him in forams. And what
if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web, that he
had reached the term ; that this heroic deliverer could no
longer serve us ; that the rebellion had touched its natural
asolusion, and what remained to be done required new and
uncommitted haada-4 new spirit boat out of the ashes of
amines • and thWHeavea, wishing to show the world •
completed benefactor, shall make him serve his country
even more by death than by hie life. Nations, like kiop,
are not good b 7 facility and oomplaliance. The bodeas
of kings comma in Joan= and drength." " Easy good
nature has been tha dawn= fable of the republic,
and it was neomea7 that its esteem should outrage it, and
drive us to unwonted firmness, to secure the navatioa of
this country is the Next am.

Tat Italia CS t.,_!Oin CIEROT I
°wean Scnows.—The Bleep of Ward will preach at the
Chapel Borg, W hithall, es Bunday seeming seat, for the
Orphan &hods. Mw thee one hundred and Any
227resi are now educated, losbitaised, asd clothed is them,
but fifty more amid be easommodated at once, it the yearly
income were aufficiestly Wasseed to meet the expense
whisk would be insured by such as militias. It is len.
portaet that this fact abash be widely knows, as it is be-
lieved that thin iustatution radii be supported with greater
liberality if the rissibers of the Church ci Lashed were
aware of the large number el Tay urgent OMNI that are
azaluded from west of meths.
Twit GAaz or FAIXABiwn ifi'DintWorr.—Our
readers will be glad to lean that ibis girl, whose we was
,so prominently Wore the public some weeks ago, in coo-
nexien with the Simpson Oratorio" was yesterday re.
stored to her mother, under whose eels care she wfil baser
forth be. Obrunistaseas bad occurred to satisfy the Popish
party that to Maim her kegs in their mMody would in.
vein them is troubles of a nature which they did set is the
first instant,* asticsipate.—Adeertisty.
TB= SCICIDI !MAE ETON.—Yasteaday morning
Mr. F. Chunky, ass of the scrooges for Burks, held as io.
quest at the Moos ef Weiss ?avers. is the Bleogh-red. sear
Eves, spas the body el Kr. George Bribernegh,mant,rl,
who eoutraltaid suicide early as Weilassday by
sheeting himself with a pistol, at tiptoe-perk,
jury retained a verdict that the deceased destry'this
while el seemisd mind.
Common rer YBI Causer.—On Wednesday
masts, last the Lobster coo al the mail steamers
Waves. Holyhead and Let= no bid ofi.thantllty
Dahlia Company's steamer eine to the Kiebbask
light ably. Both vowels were at the ties et tie wallies
making for Dublin Bay, bet tie Leisetsr, being the Amidst
best, by some tsetse Tea dews is the wake el the Ilium,
while was rimed cl the liskastar. and maid sway the
awes treater, tie sun at the wheel wig lases& by
saishiss held al Vass Meshed to the hew el the Liman.
tray a spare tiller wee st bead, and }leg shipped,
lall sonde Kingstown to you. imoori tie &AAP
in the bell.