Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-04-21

ls almost calculated TO shake our faith
IN God and His Providenee. Revelation
forbids US 70 commit bis end with bin.
self, and comes 20 his protection against |
the charge of having persisted in. and |
in eonseqaehce Of, bis wickedness. when
she sayA, There is Just man that per
isheth in his righteousness, and there is /
a wicked man that prolongeth his life in
his wickedness." Most emphatically 10 |
Us, then, the voice il this hour Re, - Be !
stiH, and know that 1 am God In this |
mysterious dispensAtion of His haEd, in |
thus removing, While at the zenith of his |
fame, his homo, aud bis. usefulness, the !
man who seemed, of all men, the man OF |
the hour, the man to do this very work,
raised up for this purpose, proTidentially
elected TO bis position, and moving On
in the execution Of his labor, as ifguid
ed by some. invisible power most PLAZA
ly are we taught that men are instra-
ments in the hands Of God, 10 work His
win, that he needeth not any man, that
He pulIeth down one, aud bnildeth up
another, and none can let OF hinder
him. Says the heavenly wisdom, g BY
me kings rule and prinees decree jus
iice. Now il is the besetting SIN OF
nations to glorify their fayorite and snc-
eessful leaders, to exalt their names TO
the skies and boast their prowess aud
wisdom. And in no nation has this
disposition, both in its positive and neg
alive forms, been mors apparent than in
the American people. Forgetting this
great truth, that God himself is. repre-
scented in and through every form aud
system of Government, that governors
are the personal representatives OF His
viii, and should be the administrators
of His justice, we have, as 8 people, been
accustomed TO look no farther than the
man of our choice, aud the policy that
be might represent We have seen
nothing but the frail and dying form Of
a fellow-creature, and have rendered up
| to 1t the glory that shoald have been
| given to the Lord of Hosts. Moreover
we have made speedy success the critic
rion of q Just and pure administration.
Nay, We have forgotten utterly the
| guiding hand that is shaping events,
against which no finite wisdom can avail,
and all the representation we have of
the hand of God in our order AID pros
pect has been traduced, and reviled with
the most malignant and partizan spirit,
forgetful Of Him who hath said Thou
shalt not speak evil OF the ruler Of thy peo-
pile; am the Lord, aud that il is but
required by him of stewards that man
be found faithful And herein think
can family trace the consummate and
appropriate wisdom and justice Of God
in this terrible calamity, striking at
and furnishing our offences in these re-
spects, so that they should not fail to
come home 10 us in all their enormity
Looking back, we can see how we trust
ed in the fidelity and honesty of our late
President--how safe We were feeling in
bis hands, and, as each cannon doomed
10 us the notes of new victories, the voice
of almost every heart has been, This Is
due TO the SoisdOBs and skill and patriot.
ism of Abraham Lincoln How little
God was in our thoughts is proved in the
terror that stopped the beat of every
heart, aud the black cloud of doubt and
distrust that Immediately slew hope IN
every breast, and enveloped the future in
the dark pail of ruin, when the lightning
brought 70 the nation the news of lie
loss Where true and genuine faith IN
an All-Disposing Providence has its
abode, there would be sorrow, bus not
as those without hope Bot from how
many hearts did hope for the instant de-
partl Still things continue as they were.
The machineryrof the nation is moving
on az before, and It will move, for ths
Lord i,eigneth Again, We have allowed
liberty to run into lawlessnessy we have
allowed ourselves and our press TO con-
found the man with the political prinei-
pies and policy he might represent; and
instead of showing, in a charitable and
courteous spirit, our ideas of the ueces
8 sary consequences and results of line
of policy opposed to that which is our
own view of how affairs should be man.
aged, we have allowed our press and
public speakers to vituperate, abuse, and
Willy our public men; endesvor TO strip
them of that honor and regard which
they, by virtue of their Office, must hold
in the feelings and opinions Of the mass
of the people governed, in order to be
effective rulers. We have therefore per-
mitted our rulers to become hedged in
with terrors, and surrounded with in.
huences, that, unless the incumbent of
the office be especially influenced by
. /
low and hell-born considerations, will
effectually prevent him from impair
tally administering justice and punish
ing wickedness and vice. do not
think the man lives in our midst to-day
that believes that the largehearted, wise
statesman and faithful ruler who has
been stricken thus suddenly from his
place, had one characteristic Of a
tyrGHt, one aspiration after anconstitu-
t9oHaL pos0er and glory, and yet how
often have those opposed to him in poll
i teal policy attached the word 'styrans'
to bis namei and III seems almost in
righteous retFibution to the people for
permitting, and to them for doing, this
dangerous and wicked thing. That
Sic sempeT tyrdnnis" should be the re-
minder of Gods wrath in his death,
who, parer and more single hearted and
transformations than any other, since
the beloved Washington, should have
least deserved the name That we
should be taught, In the blood of our
I noblest, our purest and our best, that
God means something when he says
Thou shalt not speak eviL of the ruler
| Of thy people" -
Yes, beloved, and the nation may as
well regard the Divine Law at once, and
come before God, seeking to know his
will, and do it. 1t ia written Blessed
only is the nation whose God is the
Lord, and whose hope the Lord is" In
the wave Of blood lhas has rolled, crest
ed with FIRE and hate, over our once
united and prosperous country, in the
two hundred and City thousand graves
that mark the places where the bones
of your bold repose;" IN the graves
where misguided bravery and zeal
sleep their last sleep; in wounded and
mangled men, and desoIated homes; in
weeping widows and fatherless children;
aud now, in the event that has draped in
Grape your whole land, / tell you most
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