Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-10-21
PORTRAIT OF LINCOLN.

Senator John Sherman Of Ohio made one
Of his magnetic speeches in Sandusky last
week, to vast audience that inclined to ev.
cry word Of his oratory. In the midst Of
his powerful augmentation, 10 threw oil a
personal sketch of Abraham Lincoln, which
will be recognized everywhere as life Ike:
~ know Old Abe, AID tell you there is
not at this hour mere patriotic, or a truer
man living than that man Abraham Lincoln.
Some say he is an imbecie but he not only
held his own IN his debates with Douglas,
whose power is admitted, and whom I con.
sideIed the ablcst intellect in the United
States Senate, but got a little the better Of
him. lie has been deliberate and slow, but
when he puts his foot down, it is with the
determination and certainty with which our
generals take their steps, and like them, when
he takes city, he never gives il up. This
firm old man is noble aud kind hearted, he
is child of The people. Go to him with o
story Of woe, and he will weep like child.
This man, so condemned, works more hours
than any other President that ever occupied
the chair. His soliritude for the public wei.
fare is never. ceasing. differed from him nj
first myself, but at last folt and believed he
was right, and shall vote for this brave, true
patriotic, kind hearted man. All his faults
sndsmistakes you have seen. All his virtues
you never can know. His patience in labo,
is wonderful. lie works far harder than any
man in Erie county At the head of tins
great nation, look at it : he has all the bilis
10 sign passed by Congress. No one can he
a. tai 10, ,fii,o x,,,tbp,,t l,ta ,l
no on. can be punished without the judg
ment receives his signature, and no one par.
doncd without his hand. This man, always
right, always just, we propose now to reelec
to the Presidency. To swap off such mar
as this, my countrymen, for Mcclellan, idle
incompetent, and unwilling, would, in my
opinion, be devilish poor trade"
"NIGGERs WONT FIGnT."-Thc followin,
is tho testimony Of an eye witness to the VA
lor of the eolorcd troops, at the taking o
Fort Harrison, near Richmond, a few days
since:
While for the black troops, and what they
did, let the lips Of detraction and lies be for
ever palsied before the sublime record of hun
dreds of them charging in line, while thci1
life's blood was streaming from bullet wound.
received as they hurled themselves upon tn,
foe. OF scores Of others, who halted impa
tiontly only to get their wounds bandaged
and then flying to their places IN the rank.
again, as if impelled by an irresistible i'm
pulse of heroism and utter indifference o
wourds or death. One poor black coming
out OF the charge with seven wounds in his
body--a frightful bayonet stab in the side
an arm shattered, his skull fractured, hi.
flesh torn, scarcely able to crawl back tt
the rear-was seen Juggling his muskct and
accoutrcments along, and was asked why he
did not drop his sun2 by gar, wouldn',
take fifty dollars for dat musket, massa,
and on he went, holding on to Uncle SAM
property with fidelity, it is no disparage
s,ent to assert, never Witnessed among white
troops. Crown all this with the two hundred
and fifty cold but sable corpses which lay
strewn beneath the rebel earthworks, and
upon the parapets they had assaulted and
carried, and then, ye bastard Copperheads
who have sent out these poor creatures te
substitute you in the army, lie them dowr
with falsehood and ingratitudc, blacker thar
their skins, snceringly assert that these mer
Twill not fight" i: you CAM
Tho looks Of fright and despair of the fly
ing rebels as these black fellows pressed OF
over the parspets, is said to have been a
once terrible and ludicrous. 1t is explained
by the idea they entertain that the colorct
troops massacre every one indiscriminatcly
suggested, no doubt, by their own re
preaching consciences as they recall For
Pillow and other similar butchcrics Of tbcil
men,