Litchfield enquirer., 1865-03-09
General News.

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 TIE INAUGURATION OF PRssIDENr LINCOLN President Lincoln was inaugursted fol another term of four years, st l2o'cloek noon on Saturday last, at Washington. Overhead the weather was clear and beautiful, but or account of recent rains, the streets were filled with mud. Despitet the fact the crowd was ex eeedinsly large, and thousands proceeded tc the Capitol to witness the inauguration core. nouies. The procession moved about eleven o'clock. President Lincoln had been at the Capitol all day, and consequently did not 90. company the procession to the scene of the ceremonies. The oath to protect and main. tain the Constitu ion ofthe United States was administered to Mir. Lincoln, by Chief Justice Chase, in the presence of thousands. The In. augural Address was then read, after which s national salute was fired. Everything passed of.in the most quiet and orderly manner.
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 FsLIow CouxrHyMEs: At this seeond ap. pearing'to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than, there was at the frst.. Then 6 statement somewhat in detail of Q course to be pursued, seemed very sitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still sbsorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. a,. .'..
 The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself. and it is. I trust, rsasona- With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. '
 On the occasion corresponding to this four to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ;- all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place devoted altogether to saving.the Union withou. war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war-seeking to dissolve the Union and divide the effects by negotia. ton. Both parties deprecated war. but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rathe, than let it perish, and the war came. '7'i
 One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern parl of it. These slaves constituted peculiar and powerful! interest. All knew that this interest was somehow. the cause of the war. .Te strengthen, perPetuate and extend this inter est, was the object for which the finsurgenti would rend the Union even by war, while the Goyernmentr claimed no right to do more thar to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. q
 Neither party expected fer the war the mag nitude or the duration which it has alrendy at tained. Neither anticipated that the cause oi the conflict might cease with, or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and { result less funda- mental and astounding WI iiR s'ia 1d 70 9b:s :. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God and each inyokes His aid against he other. 1t may seem strange that any men should dare to.ask . just Gods assistance in Tringing their bread from the sweat of other mems faces, but let us judge not. that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not ,e answered. That of neither has been am lwered fnliY. The Almighty has his owR pnr- ,oses. Woe unto the world because of sofsn. ;es, for it must needs be that offences come !, ,ut woe to that man by' whom the offence oheth. If We shall suppose that American lavsfY is one of these offences, which in the of God must needs come, but which
 aying continued through His appointed time, 10 now wills to remove, and that He gives to oth North and South this terrible war as the roc due to those by.whom the offence came, hall NC .discsfn therein any departure from hose divine attribttes which the believers in 1 living God always sscribe to Him Fondly Q NC hope, ferventiyy' do We pray, that this ,iplity sconrkei of wsr may soon pass away.
 yet. if God wills that it continue until all the | leaitt piled by the bondmanis two hundred
 nd islty yeats Of unreqaited toll shall be sunk, td until every drop of blood drawn with tho
 ,sh shah be paid with another drawn with 55el lsword. ssi vas said three thousand years ro.I so. sfill t must be said s The judgments
 the Lord arc true and righteous altogether! ]
 With malice toward none, with charity for l.i witll 6rmness in the right, as God ]giyea ps sse fi,e right, let us strive on tol hnish the AT "A srs in, to bind up tho nations wounds, ,eare fof l,in, who shall have borne the battle ,d fer his widow and his orphans, and to do i which may achieve and cherish . just and otine peac5 sno1g outselyess and with ,all ls..&sI sEyS s VOL Y!oGd S9fs ] akfNIsttsl ., lttyASe fl e4af ase fssg. Tasa5ss ff sstassf Sc