Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-12-14

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hered to the right, and to those measures
demanded for the public good, regardless
OF personal consequences. None other
than great minded, patriotic, honest man
would have issued an order, unpopular If
any could be, for five hundred THOUSAND
conscripts, and that just on the eve of
| Presidential Campaign in which he knew
that his name would come before the peo-
pie for their votes. No man can Law his
finger on one public act of his tiat looks
like seeking popularity; and yet, though
first elected by merely constitutional ma
jority, he has been reelected by popu-
lar majority such as no other man ever
received who had an organized party and
candidate against him
But the highest evidence OF his great
ness comes not from the fact that he has
wisely directed the interests confided to
hlm, that he has sought the good of
the nation without gard to popular favor,
not even that he has gained as friends
and supporters, thousands who were in the
beginning his political enemies, nor vet
even that in position where so many
have yielded to the corruptions around
them he has maintained a correct, even a
christian life but in this we may see
high nobility,-that the responsibilities
immoralitics and temptations which have
corrupted and demoralized so many men,
have la1 him, tO Christ AID boro lot ~, n
repeat an incident | find in a late number
of the New York Evangelist, as related
in the Mass. Sunday School Teacher
/! Convention a gentleman known to the
narrator, on visiting the President on
business was requested by friend to ask
him 1chether he lOred Jesus When the
question was asked, the President buried
his face in his handkerchief, turned away
said: "When | left home to take this
chair Of state, requested my countrymen
to pray for mel was not then christian
When my son died the scyerest trial of
my life, | was not then q christian But
when went to Gettysburg and looked
on the graves of our dead heroes fallen in
defence of their country, | then and there
cOnsecrated myself to Christ. I do lore
/ Jesus. Were | called upon to Writ on
his tombstone the neblest utterance of his
life, one that should ever tell to the passer-
by the true nobility and real greatness of
that heart would inscribe this sentence
"JheR I rent TO Gettysburg and L Coked
upon the grareS Of oar dead heroes fallen
IN defence Of their count,Y I then and
there consecrated myself to Christ -
What tender touching appreciating trib-
ute is that to the fallen What beauti~
/ ful, sublime acknowledgment Of the value
of the sacrifice they made, when the sight
Of their last resting place could lead that
great struggling spirit to cast itself
upon the merits of that sacrifice made for
man when Jesus gave his life to save sin
ners. 1t is a higher testimonial to the
value of the service they rendered to their
country, than all that pile Of sculptured
marble that lifts it's head above their graves
| to pcrpctuate their fame.
We thank God to-day for this christian
patriot,-that He defended and protected
him when foes sought his life,-we thank
| Him for the wisdom He has given to guide
an erring man under such pressure Of
responsibilities thank Him that He
has so far brought this great people to one
mind, that our honored President is re-
tanned in the Office for another term, by a
more emphatic expression of choice than
any man has received for the Office during
half Il century retained, we humbly hope
to finish the work he has so noblv begun
The deliverances which God hath
wrought for us during the year, are many
and great This year has been justly re-
earded by wise men as the time of tria'
for our country-a trial that should de-
eide whether any Government not toe
strong for the liberties of its people, car
be strong enough to maintain its own ex
istence in great emergencies. , The recur
renee of popular election involving the
verdict of the whole nation upon the poll
CIV of the Go.ernment and its administra-
tors, was the point at which the creates
danger was apprehended. quote The
remarks made before the late election By
DR.. Leiber, a German exiied from his
country for his patriotism-a wise, nblC
historian, new professor in Columbia Col
Iecc, New York. He says;
If we elect Lincoln it will be one OF
: the most remarkable facts Of all history
, | speak adyis edlY. y people having beer
engaged for four years in n great civi
war Is in addition to all difficu ties, cal et
upon to ele5t ruler Of many millions
| in the very midst of this civil war; Will
: thousands of bold and warm friends of tn
T rebelIious enemy in the very bosom of tn
electing people, and with perfectly fre
polls Such thing was never Known
: Such a thing has not even happened in
common war. How did Pitt treat friend
! of .he French rebellion How did Ma
/ poleon Ill treat the people when he call
= ed upon them to vote for his Presldenc
for ten years or for the 'Empirey \
: discussion wa. allowed; no oppositio
. ticket could be openly polled. | repea
n as historian, that if we eject, and cleo
: largely. the man who labels our caus