Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-03-11
The Inauguration of President
Lincoln.
WAsnINaToN, March 4.

the President elect.
AT a subsequent period the President
and Vice. president, ,togetdof with the Jus.
ticcs of the Supreme Court, members and
ex-membcrs of Congress, foreign minis.
tors and other persons Of distinction as
sembled 10 ibe Senate Chamber.
There the Vice President elect took the
oath Of office, preceding it by an address.
Chief Justice Chase administered the
Office on tho eastern portico, when the
President delivered his inaugural address.
here was very large attcndancc,aDd
the scene was one of marked interest.
THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS. A
fttlo,U (ountrynisn - .a. ...~ .r# ..
At thi. second appearing to take the
ox,h Of the Presidential Office there is less
occasion for an extended address than
there was at the first. Then statement
somewhat in detail Of a course to be pur.
sued seemed very fitting and proper
Now, at the expiration of four years, du-
ring which public declarations have been
constantly called forth on every point and
phase Of the great contest which still alb.
serbs the attention and eDgrosses the ener-
ges of the nation, little that is new could
be presented. .,..
The progress Of our arms, upon which
all else chiefly depends, is as we'll Known
to tho public as to myself, and it ISL trust,
reasonably satisfactory and encouraging
TO all. With high hope for the future, no
) prediction in regard to it is veptured.
On the occasion corresponding TO this,
four years ago, all thoughts were anxious
ly directed 10 an impending civil war
All dreaded it; all sought to avoid it.
t While the Inaugural Address was deiv-
cred from this place devoted altogether to
saving the Union without war, insurgert
agents we're in the city seeking to disolv0
u the Union and divide the effects, by nego.
tiation.
IT Both parties deprecated wir, but one o.
y them would make war Father than let the
e nation survive and the other would accep
It war rather than let it perish, and wal
IL came,
" One eighth Of the whole population
Is werc eolored slaves, not distributed gene
~ rally over the Union, but localized in th
OF Southern part of it. These slaves cons,i
: tutcd peculiar ard powerful interest
'g All knew that This nterst was somehow
ut the cause of the war. TO strengthen
ie perp, tuate, and extend this interest wa
: the object for which the insurgents woul
10 reud the Union by war, while the govern
ne ment claimed no tight to do more shan t
~ retrict the territorial enargeme ut Of it..
ms Neither party expected for the war th
Its magnitude or the duration which i. has al
no ready attained. Neither anticipated tha
or the cause Of the conflict might esase eve
or before the conflict itself shou,d cease
D. Each looked for an easier triumph and
~ result less fund damen,al and astounding.
% Both read tho ssms Bible aud pray to til
IN same God and each invokes HIS aid again
lis lie other. 1t may seem strange that an
n, men should dare ask just Gods ASST;
iancs in wriagiDg their bread from tt
b. sweet of other meu's faces but let u, JUDI
n not, that we be not Judged The praye
Fiy Oh both should not be answered.. That I
10 neither has been answered fully. I'll
In almighty has Iii. own purposes Woe III
OF to the world because os egcnses for it mu
or Geed. be that offences Como but woe to tb
er- n, an by whom the offence comc.h. Ii '
a shall suppose that American slavery
all one of the offences, Which in tie Providen
lily Of 6 cd must needs come, hut which b hav
sf continued threagh His appointed tim
i'd Ie now Wills no remove, and that
ter gives to both North and South this ter
de- ble war as the woe due 10 these by whe
md the offence camo, shall VIC discern there
ent any departure from thoss DiyiDG attri
be utes which the believers in living G
md always ascribe 10 him! Fondly do 4
his hope, ,leryently do We pray that this mig''
ose scourage Of war may speedily pass aw'
nal Yet if God wills that it continue until
and the wealth piled by the bonman's t
is hundred and fifty years OF unrcqui'ed |
'hh shall bo paid by another drawn with
uo- sword as was said three thousand ye
eals ago, SO still it must be said that the jud
,ent ments of the Lord are true and righte,
atcs altogether. .l .Er.. .s., DO .
ebel With malice toward none, with char
for all, with 6rmness in the right, as G
gives US TO see the right, let US strive
'"H 10 finish The work We are in, to bind
was tho nations wound, 10 care for him y
~ shall have borne the battle and for
'ieu widow and his orphans, 10 do all yh