Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1864-08-19

~ fBE 1E4 HARRIET - trti%h ftoHhe
= Lftts did The convention that Nominated Ab-
raham Lincoln fer President know what they
were dong. Little did tbe honesA ia1heEly, pa
triOtic man. who stood in his simplicity on the
platform atSpringEeid asking the prayers Of
his townsmen and receiving their pledges 70 re-
member hiEn, foresee bow awfullf he was TO
need thoss prayeEs, the prayers Of aIlthis patton
and the prayers of all the working, suffering,
commcn people throughout the world. Gods
hand was upon bihf Edth q vieible pfcteenoR
saving 6rzs frosp the danger Of assassination at
Baltimore and bringing him safely to our nation
al capitol Then the world have seen and won
deEed Of the greatest sign and marFelpf our day
70 WI, "a plain working tnsh OF the psopie with
no reepltqEe inytsuetion OF education than
any working man may obtain for himself called
on 10 eoHduet the passage cf z ereet people
through a crisis involving the desfinies Of the
whole world. The eyes of princes, mobiles, ar
istocrats of dukes, earls scholars statesmen var
riors all turned on the plain baekypedsmap,
with his simple sense, his imperturbahle sim
pIicity his determined selfrelianee his iInprac-
ticabie and ineorrHptable honesty, as he sat
amid the war of conflicting ele ments with
unpretending steadiness, striving to guide
| the National ship through a channel at
whose perils the worlds oldest statesmen stood
aehast The brilliant courts of Europe leveled
their opera glasses at the phenomenon, Far
ladies' saw that he had homely hands and dis
dained white gloves. DapPer diPlomatists were
shocked at his systemn Of etlyuette, but old
statesmen, who knew the terfors ofthat passage
were wiser than court ladies and dandy diplo-
matists, and watched him with fearful eurios-
/ ity, simply asking, WI that aWkard back
woodsmsn really get that ship through II he
does, it win be time for us to look about us.
Lincoln is a strong mar, bat his strength is
ola peculiar kind issls not aggressive 50 much
| as passive, and among passive things 1t Is ike
the strength not SO much of a stone buttress as
fawIre cable. 1t is strength swaying to every IN
fiuence, yielding on this side and on thatto pop
uIsr needles yet tenaciously and iRhexibly bound
to carry its great end: and probably by no other
| kind Of strength could our national ship have
been drawn safely thus FAR during gsthe iossinRs
and tempests which beset her way.
j Surrouudedby all sorts Of conflicting claims.
by traitors BY half hearted, timid men, BY bOr-
der State men aHd free State neD, by radical
| abolitioaists and conservatives, ne has listened
i to all weighed thswords. of all waited, observ-
/ ed. Welded, now here and now there but in the
1 main kept inhexible honest purpose, aud drawn
the national ship through. za
j In time Of our trBuble Abraham IincolD has
had his turn of being the best abused man of
our nation. Like Moses leading his Isreal through
| the wilderness. he has seen the day when every
man seemed ready to stone him. and yet, with
/ simple. WHY steddy pefseftfduCc. he mas 1el0
on, coneious of honest intentions and looking to
God for help All the nations havefeIt in the
increasing solemnity Of his Proclamations and
papers, how deep an education was being
/ wrought IN his mind by this simple faith in God
the Ruler of the nations, and this humble will
ingness to learn the awful lessons Of His provi-
| dence. No man IN this agony has suffered more
and deeper, albeit with a dry weary, patient
pain, that seem TO some like insensibility.-
L. \. /. I - -
Il have the eimpFessioB that shan't last long
after 1t is over After the dreadful repnlse al
fredericksburg he is reported to have said, IF
there is man ont of he'll that suffers more than
i do, pity him. In those dark days his heavy
leyes and worn and weary air told how rsYerses
wore upon him, and yet there was never
falling fund of patience at the bottom, that some
times rose to the surface in some drol, quaint
saying or story that forced a laugh even from
himself M sa.fe
There have been tunes with many, of impet-
ous impatience, when our national ship seemed
to lie waterlogged, and we have called aloud for
deliver of another fashions brilliant Cen
eral dashing, fearless statesman, a man who
could dare and do who would stake all
on die, and win or lose by brilliant coup de
Bein. 1t may comfort our minds that, since
He who ruleth in the armies of nations set no
such man at work perhaps he saw IN the man
. AA~-4co-
titudes therefor.
Slow and careful in combining to resolutions,
willing to talk with every person who had any
thing TO show on any side Of a disputed SUBJ
iect, long in weighing and pondering, attached
to constitutional limits and time -honered land
marks, Lincoln certainly was the safest leader a
nation could have at the time when the habeGs
leorpus must be suspended, and all the eonstitu-
tional and minor rights of citizens be thrown
> Unto the hands Of their military leader.
Z Among the many accusations Which in hours
9 ofill luck have been thrown out upon Lincoln
3 it Is remarkable that he has never been called
: self-seekiDg or selfish. When we were troub.
+ He'd and sat in darkness, and looked doubtfully
{ towards the Presidential chair, it was nevel
that we doubted the good viii of our pilot only
} the clearness of his eye sight. But Almighty
God has granted to him that clearness of vision
which he gives to the true-hearted, and enabled
him to set his honest foot in that promised land
7 of freedom which is to be the patrimony of al
{ | men, black and white and from henceforth na-
tions shall rise up to call him ed.-BostoJ
, | TTdtchnadn and Reflector.