The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-06-30

than hell Itself, get thee hence to bo chained
forever more to the arch fioud in the region
OF black despair" which tho poe: thus dc.
scrbes:
.., >, wide was the place,
And deep ns wide, and ruinous as doep.
Beneath saw lake of burning fire,
with tempest tossed perpotually, and still
Inc waves oftiery darkness gains. the rocks
W dark damnation broke, and music made
Or melancholy sort; and over head.
And oil around, wind warrod with wind.
[storm howlcd
To storm, and lightning forked lightning
[crossed,
! And thunder answered thunder, muttcripg
sound of sullen wrath
| Whatever may have been our honest diff.
florence OF opinion in regard to the Admin.
istration OF the late President. be who TO-.
day rrJoicos over bis nartyrdom ia a b,sc
traitor, and should receive traitors doom.
While Abraham Lincoln was at tho head of
1 tho Government, he was a servant of the
people, and IL was competent for the peo.
| plc to cay what tho genius OF democratic
institutions and the spirit of the age do
mandod OF the nation, touching the great
problem of the hour. Slavery. having ruled
| the nation for seventy years, finding itself
| outnumbored alta popular election, dropped
the ballot-box and seized tho cartridge box.
IN the vain hope Of regaining her lost pres
t'gs. The issue thus presented by the ad
Vocates OF tho internal institution. was ac-
cepted by the nation, and North and South
c'osed in death grapple for tho perpetua.
ton or extinction Of Slavery. This being
80, it was not only legitimate but absolutely
imperative upon tho advanced minds of tho
age, who saw tho end f,om tho Beginning
to SEQ to it that the golden opportunity to
strike for Justice, Liberty, Humanity and
Gods Higher Law, was not surrendered bv
base compromise, that we might obtain a
dishonorabIe peace. TO This end we criti.
czed freely, but in no captious spirit, what.
ever seemed to US mistaken policy in the
Administration. Having faith in tho lube
rent power OF democratic institutions. we
mad no sympathy with tho coward cry tha,
just criticism"end ndangered tho Government"
Believing in our inlnost being that Ahrn.
ham Lincoln was both loyal and honest. We
know be could ford to DO told of his short.
comings; it is only the base and cowardIv
that dread the light lest it expose their own
corruption. A man possessed of tho hon.
est integrity aud puto. minded patriotism of
the late PIesident, never shrinks from hon.
est criticism. Hence, whilo tho policy of
the Administration was to protect rebels
while 1t crushed out the spirit of liberty. as
it came yelling up in the loyal heart of the
trembling slave; 30 long as Union soldiers.
BY the consent of the Government, fed and
prospered their foes, while they starved and
naitrcated their truost friends; while Ere.
mont, Phelps and Hunter were degraded
from their commands because they loved
Liberty more than Slavery. and Mcclellan
ism was suffered 10 overrun tho army and
we'll nigh ruin the nation so long. saw. as
this was the policy of tho Administration,
the duty of every nan who loved Justice
more than country, and Humanity more
than. constitutions and compacts, was as
clear as the MONDAY sun in a cloudless sky.
No matter though every pulpit in tho land
cried "infdel.'" and every base politician
strove to brand him as a traitor, his mission
was to uphold the banner of righteousness
20 call the people back from tho traditions
of men to the commandments of tho living
God
But, after all, our real danger Law. NOT 50
much in lack OF honest purpose on the pntt or
the President as the ingrained prejudice, The
deep and dumnlng baseness OF the people nj
large. Educated Tor seventy years in the school
ol oppression, both priest and politician had Of
last come 70 believe that the negro had no rights
the white man was bound to respect! So. max
ing tool OF the Supieme Court, they found in its
Chief Justice, a mouhpece to announce The IN ct
10 the world. To-day The memory of Judoe
Ianey is execraled, aud we justly refuse bim
place with the heroes OF the past, to lhe end thai
his memory may be perpetuated; yet i, must he
confessed that he but reflected the average NOR
ality aud craftsmanship oil the American peonle
II was this deep degradation of The popular SEMI.
ment that dictated The policy Of the first Two
the liie.blood oi go many OF the iairest and
bravest OF our sons, and well nigh made treuson
successful and jeff. Davis hero instead nj ncnI
prit. 1t was this spirit Of the bollomless mir Ihat
inuugura Ted border-ruflianism in Kansas. thai
assaulted Cherries Sumner in The Senate Chamber.
that built The gallows OF John Brown at Charles.
ton, that made the atrocities oi Libby Prison md
Andersonvle possible. Think it not strn nge
therefore, that a man educated in n counipv
where this hendish spirit Of caste not only mo-
nopClized the highest places in state but sot in The
synagogue us well should mistake the Vor PonuI
for the por Lei. When We reflect upon The
weakness oi human nature; how liable we nil
are 10 err, and at the same time remember Tint
fbr1ham Lincoln was OF the people and with the
people, that he sought TO do their will rather than
his own; the wonder is not that he failed 10 see
the true relation OF the Cow rnment to the ReboiI
ion, and the plain teachings of Providence in re-.
lation thereto, but that he blundered so little nnd
on The whole, did his work so nobly and so well.
In this whole struggle between Slavery md
Freedom, we see how true it is that il is not in
man who walke'h to direct his steps. At length lem III
our sins have found us out. and Gods judgments
are upon US. In all the generations tha have
passed, The sighs and groans of the slave have as
cended on high, and ,he recording angel ha ath
written them, to be brought against a guilty peo.
pie in this day OF judgment. The tears and lam
entations OF the poor sdve mother, bereft of her
children, which we refused TO hear, hath God
heard, and treasured up against the time when
fire and sword should devour the land that forgot
mercy and refused justice to the poorest and hum.
blest OF its inhabitants. Verify, all the blood of
down.trodden Africa, from the sufIerngs of ,he
first cargo of slaves landed in Virginia in I62O.
to the blood OF the heroic Massa chnsetts 54lh
Regiment, that led the assault on Fort Wagner,