The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1865-03-10
IincnIn's INAUGURAL.

The following IS President LIScoLS's
second Inaugural Message, delivered il
Washington on the 4th inst:
Fellow CoUSTRYMES.-At the second
appearing TO take the oath OF the prsslden-
tal office. there is less occasion for an ex
tended address than there WAS st the first.
Then statement somewhat in Detail Of \
course to be pursued, seemed very fitting
and proper, no.~st the expiration Of four
years, during which public declarations
ave been constantly called forth on every
point aud phase Of the grea, contest which
still absorbs the attention, and engrosses
the energies Of the nation, listls that Is
pew could be presented.
The progress of our arms, upon which
all else chiefly depends, is as we'll known
10 the public as to myself, and il Is, trust
reasonably satisfactory ard encouraging to
| all. With high hope for the future, no
prediction in regard to il is ven,ured
! On the occasion corresponding TO this
four years ago, all thoughts were anxious
ly directed to an impending civil war,
All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it.
Whils the inaugural address was deliver
ing from the place devoted altogether TO
saving the Union without war, irsurgens
agents were IN the city seeking 20 destroy
it without war-seekibg TO dissolve the
Union and divide the effects BY nego,ia
ton. Both parties depi ecated war. but
one Of them would make war raiher than
let the nalion survive, and the other would
accept rather than lie: it perish. So the
war came One.eis shlh Of the whole pop
ulaton were colored slaves, rot diatribu~
ted in general over the Union, but local
zed in the southern part OF it. These
slaves constituted peculiar and power
:ul interest. All knew that this interest
Was somehow the. cause Of the war. 10
strengthen, perpetuate and ex.lnc, this 10
terest was the object for which the insur-
gents would rend the Union by war, while
| he government claimed no right to do
more than to reslraiE the territorial eu-
largement Of it. Neither party expected
!or the wa- the magnitude or the duration
which 1t has already attained. Neither
anticipated that the causs Of the conllct
might cease, or even before the conflict
itself should cease. Each looked for an
easier triumph, and rasuls less tunda-
mental aud astonishing. Both read the
same Bible and pray to the same God,
and each inyokes his aid against tie other.
1t may seem strange that any men should
| dare 10 ask lust Gods assistance III
aringiAg their bread from The sweat OF
other men 8 fac es; but let ia Judge no.
that we be no. judged" The prayers OF
| both should not be nswercd-'hat OF
neither has been answered fully. The
Almighty has Ills own purpose.
" Woe unto the world because of often
ees, for i: must needs he that offences
come, bus woe unto tina! man by whom
offence cometh."
II we shall suppose that American sIs>
very is one of these offences, which, IN the
| providence Of God, must needs come, bat
which, having continued through his ap
pointed time, he low viii TO remove, and
that he gives TO both north and south this
terrible war Of the woe due TO those by
whom the offence came.
Shall we discern that there is any de-
parture from those divine attributes
Which the believers in a living God always
asc1ibe to him ? Fondly do we hope, aud
ferventIy do We pray, that ibis mighty
scourge Of war will soon pass away. Yet.
! if God wills that it continue until all the
wealth piled by the bopdman's two hun
dred and Fifty years of unrequi,ted toll oe
sunk. and untiI every drop OF blood drawn
with the lash shall be paid by another
Drawn with the sword, as was said three
thousand years ago, SO still it must be
said that the judgments of the land are
true and religious, altogether, with malice
toward none, viii charity for all, with
frmness in the right, as God gives US
light to see the right.
LIE, US striye on to finish the work we
are in, to bind up the nations wounds,
and care for him who shall have borne
the battle and for his widow and bis or
phaus-to DO al! which may achieve a
just and lasting peace among ourselves
and with all nations.