Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-04-19
Wednesday Morning, April 10.



To day the honest grief of the nation for
the death OF our late President, which
nearly all our citizens in q more or less
uemOnsIrative way have been eVinclng
ever since last Saturday morning, will Gull
inmate in a more open and formal express
sion. The whole land will be clad in
lnourning-the bells will toll sadly-the
minute guns will peal forth their re.
quiems-rhe choirs in every church will
chant their mourntul cadences-the voice
Oftremu'ous PrsyerWill go up from thou
sand pulpits. seconded by the hearts of tens
of thousands of worshipers below. To
men and angels great scene will be pre-
sented. Like fragrance of sweet incense
the homage of great people, grief strick.
en- and bowed down, will ascend to heaven
Praising Gcd for the gift of so great and good
an example among men al Abraham Lincoln,
and asking comfort and guidance now that
he has been so suddenly and painfully TAX
en- away from US, when our hearts beat
warm and close towards him because he
bad go nearly led ne through the wilder
Dess of war ir:O the promised land that
lies jus' 'eyoDd.
Toese truly are Dies Iy&-deys of wrath
days of unprecedented national affection.
Who shall picture the present culmirstiou
of our four years of unparalleled war?
Who shall put in words the spectacle OF a
people plunged at once from the widest
joy into the deepest SORROW? 1t seems al
most as if the tabled apples Of the Dead
Sea had turned to ashes on our lips. Lees
than 6 week ago VIC rejoiced to believe
that the war cloud had almost rolled away,
and we saw the Iong hidden suns blessed
and bright rays OF peace about to burst
upon US. Now our sky is overcast sgain.
not by the clouds of war-bur by one of |
those black spots that came upon the sun |
when he who would have established his |
people vas wickedly and inhumanly slain |
by certain Of them. Notwithstanding our
victories by land and sea, aud the wide |
spread symptoms Of acquiescence in the
National authority, the darkness that per-
vadss the public mind ia scarce.
y affected by the prospect, for the
resson that our escutcheoa has been |
by the crime Of assassination. |
TIE American name has been Gishonored |
in the sight OF mankind We. stand |
aghas; at vision of the Dark Ages over
Spreading Us. We are appalled, to know
that the order Of Italian Carbonari has been
established among US with its Stilettos
and its BOrgiss. We tremble to think that
perchance our Anglo Saxon government
has lost lite SAVIOUR and is henceforth good
for nothing but to be cast out and trodden
some red handed Orsini may not next week
strike home q dagger to the heart of him
who has iust heen sworn in 40 President
The day OF republican simplicity may have
passed away from around the persons Of
our Chief Magistrates. The military cor
don is perhaps their only ehie!d hereafter.
Itis these things, actual and apprehend-
ed, that over spread the land with gloom
to-day. In the progress OF the war, midst
all its ups and downs, we "tten had cause
to weep
But ne'er were called to blush before"
Even the rebellion did not lose as our
pride in our common American name,
North and South. But to feel now that the
seeds of anarchy are being planted to crop
out every few years in the murder of q
President and Cabinet is the dreadful
thought that Expresses the public heart to-
day. We thank Heaven however, for the
redeeming features of our situation. The
nation bears up sobly in its sorrow. The
new President goes on quietly with the
duties of the position go ruthlessly made
vacant. The people rally round him at
once. Public confidence in the finances is
not sensibly shaken. There ia no coup d
etat spirit anywhere. Wecan all feel that
we still stand on firm ground. We can see
remaining the familiar land marks. Let us
then not be discouraged, but hope for the
best from this dreadful visitation upon us
as a nation. Let us hope that we shall
soon see that Abraham Lincoln in the
greatness and fullness of his glory passed
away, having led his people, like William
of Orange, "clear through the range of those
faculties SO remarkably adapted for the
work assigned to him."
THE frighttul calamity that has befallen
the nation invests with profound interest
the following extract from letter publish
ed in the London Times, from its Richmond