American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-01-27
THE NEXT PREsIDENCY.

We have for many months foreseen that
no other man who would be at. oil likely to
be centred upon by all the friends of the
Union for the next Presidency, would be
SO safe for the country, so acceptable to the
nation, and so peculiarly adapted to the
great emergency, through which he has
thus far triumphantly conducted us, as
Abraham Lincoln, and hence he ought to
be continued in Office until the gigantic
treason which at one time noarly over
whelmed the country is completely crush
ed and extirpated. No one can justly de-
ny that Mr. Lincoln possesses singular
combination of prudence, with boldness,
great steadiness of mind with great power
of adoption to circumstances peculiar to
himself, anc Just that character which
could alone save the republic in the terri
BILE dangers which on all sides beset it,
1t may be also said thathis peculiar frank
ness and transparency of character, his re-
markable faculty, never equaled in any
other President fromthe first, of inspiring
every one with sense that he is thor
oughly honest and trustworthy man, has
been the only one thing that has prevent
ed faction from obtaining fatal ascenda-
ry in the very crisis of the war. With a
common consent the People were willing
to trust Mr. Lincoln with an amount of
power they would have hardly coniided to
any other man. The bitter TRADES of DEM
agogues against him grasping usurper, a
selfish tyrant, a subverter of free govern
ment, was felt to be not simply false, but
utterly absurd. 1t may be that this abso-
Lutte confidence, such as no other man could
have inspired, was that which secured, as
nothing else could have done, freedom of
executive action, of independence of fac
tous opposition, that alone saved the coun-
try.
All these characteristics and facts prove
that the present incumbent of the Execu-
tive Chair of the United States, is the one
singled out by Providence to continue to
occupy it for another term, and until the
rebellion shall be put down, peace restor-
ed, and the integrity of the Union secur-
ed beyond all future attempts at violence.
And it was doubtless from considerations
like the foregoing that impelled the Union
members of the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives Of Pennsylvania to unite in
singing, as every such member of either
branch has done, an address to the Presi-
dent, endorsing his administration of the
Government and sympathizing in the pol
icy which he has adopted and thus far so
successfully and sgnally maintained thro'-
out the trying ordeal which has environed
him since the first day of his official term
They declare that the issue of the late
elections was a full endorsement of this
policy that the result re-inspired to valor
of our brave armies and that his cores
pondents are only responding to the wish
es of those whom they represent, in pub
licly announcing to him their unshallen
pretereece for his recollection to the Presi-
dency.
This address will unquestionably exert
strong influence all over the loyal I'm
ion; and although the singers may not be
the very first to solicit Mr. Lincoln to ac-
cept of a nomination for reelection. yet
their, appeal, coming with unanimity and
eanestness from so important an official
body of the people, must prove Of COM
manding weight and consideration in ac-
complishing the object paramount to all
others, just now, in political point of
view Germanto,ca Telegraph.