Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-03-10
THE PRESIDENTS INAUGURAL.

FeG0IC C0UTlETyDle1 AT this seco nd ap-
pearing to take the oath OF the Presidential
office, there is less occasion for an extended
address than there was at 6rst. Then, state
ment, somewhat in detail of a course to be
pursued, seemed fitting and proper.
Now, at the expiration Of fonr years, dur
ing which public declarations have been con-
stantiy called forth on every point and phase
Of the great contest which still absorbs the
attention and engrosses the energies of the
Nation, little that is new could be pre-
sented.
The progress OF our arms, upon which all
else chiefly depends, is as we'll known to the
public as to myself, and it is, | trust, reasona-
bly, satisfactory and encouraging to all. With
high hopes for the future, no prediction in re-
gard to it is ventured. On the occasion cor.
responding to this four years ago all thoughts
were anxiously directed TO an impending civil
war /; all dreaded it; all sought 20 avoid it,
While the inaugural address was being deliver
ed from this place, devoted altogether to saving
the Union without war, insurgents were in the
city seeking to destroy it-witbout war seek
ing to dissolve the Union and divide the effects
by negotiations. Both parties deprecated
war, but one of them would make war rather
than let the nation survive, and the other
would accept war rather than let il perish, and
the war came.
One-eighth of the whole population were
eoored slaves, not distributed generally over
the Union, but localized in the Southern parr
Of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar
and powerful interest. All knew that this in
terest was somehow the cause of the war 70
strengthen, perpetuate and extend this inter-
est was the object for which the insurgents
would rend the Union by war, while the Gov
erDment claimed no right to do more ttan re-
strict the territorial enlargement of it,
Neither party expected for the war the mag
nitude or the duration which it has already
attained.
Neither anticipated that the cause OF the
conflict might cease, even before the conflict
itself might cease. Each looked for an easier
triumph, and result less fundamental and
Both read the same Bible and
Pray to the same God, and each invokes His |
aid against the other.
1t may seem strange that any men should ven |
ture 10 ask just Gods assistance in wringing |
their bread from the sweat of other mems |
faces, but let US judge not lest we be Judged |
The prayers of both should not be answered |
That of neither has been answered fully.
The Almighty has His own purposes Woe
lntO the world because of its offanses, for il
must needs be that offenses come but woe
lntc the man by whom the oHense cometh.-
If we shall suppose that American slavery Is
Dne of these offanses which, in the Providence
1f God, must needs come, out which, having
through His appointed time, He
low wills to remove, and that lie gives TO
10th North and South this terrible war as
Omes, shall we discern that there is any de-
,arture from those divine attributes which the
believers in living God always ascribed TO
lin? FOndy do we hope, feryently do we
ray that this mighty scourge of war may
peedliy pass away yet, if God wills that il
ontinue until all the wealth piled by the
ondmans two hundred aud fifty years of un- ,
equitted toll shall be sunk, and until every
rop OF blood drawn by the lash shall be paid .
y another drawn with the sword, as was said }
'reG thousand years ago, so still it must be 9
nd that the judgments of the Lord are true =
nd righteous, although with malice toward /;
one, with charity for all, with hrmness in the =
ght, as God gives to see the right, let US !
rive to fuish the work. We are to bind up !;
e nation's wounds aud care for him who :,
all have born the battle, and for his widow Z
ID for his orphans, to do all which may
hfeve and cherish a just and lasting peace +
nong ourselves, and with all nations