Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-05-17

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ted peace, as completely as brand is
quenched when thrown into the sea- Men
forgot that they had been glad. The
banners and decorations of victory were
left to mingle with exhibitions of mourn
ing. and one could not tell whether the
vast pagoantry said, Victory is swallowed
up in Death" or death is Saoaltowed up
IN victory."
No voluntary sign of sorrow was half
SO striking as the unconscious silence Of
that ever-roaring city of New York A
half million people thronged the city on
Monday and Tuesday, and filled the
streets to suffocaton. Yet the presence
of the MIGHTY DEAD kept all so still and
gentle, that bird flying over would be un-
scared by noise as if it were midnight or
a Sabbath day.
A martyred President was the city's
king. His pulselcss hand stretched out
sceptrc, which awed all men to silence!-Be-
fore that Hearse enmities died, jealousies
and rivalries coiled and hid, pleasure for
got its rules, avarice its tolls, and for more
than a week, the imperial city that dis
dained always before to be subducd to any
common sentiment, now silently and hum
bly, watched and waited, in all its streets,
to offer homage and affection to him, when
dead, for whom alive it would never give
a vote
AS a private citizen, Mr.. Lincoln would
have lived respected, and died lamented
as q kind, faithful and honest man, and
slept with hundreds Of others, in few
years uhdistinguishablc. ..
He had no such gifts of power as would
have raised him, in spite of circumstances,
to eminence His was not brain that
dominated. His will was firm, but not
executive nor despotic. His mind was
broad and strong, but slow and laborious
in its methods Truths did not break
33pQn him with fash and instant reyela
ton. 1Ie saw them far of, obscurely as
nebula, and like an astronomer, he resol
we'd them only by patient observation
,hus, he suspected things to be true lone
before he was sure, and he was sure Ions
before he had made out the whole matter
with distinct accuracy. He travailec
with truth in long CESSATION, but wher
once it was his he loved it with intens,
" parental instinct. His wisdom was mora
wisdom, His power amp success sprung
from moral qualities 1t was not iutellec
u but manhood that ennobled him.
Mr.. Lincoln is, perhaps, the most emi
uent instance since the days of Washing
= ton of man made great by the inheren
wisdom of true goodness And such ma
ture can scarcely be delincated apart ant
separate from the events Of that histor,
y which called out his virtues
This is particularly true Of Mr.. Lincol
for two reasons: First, because his ex
cellence did not assume the form of
:, few bold qualities, but was the sum @
many simpler qualities maintained unde
great trial and provocation. And sec
oudly, because we are now but just be
ginning to see the moral character I
those bad men against whom he thu
acted.
e That so soon in our history the dar
. crimes which have stained the later peri
u DDS of Roman and medieval Europea
J. history should have taken possession {
: the leading Southern ,oospirators, coul
scarcely be imagined by those who hav
= been accustomed to study the effects {
u slavery upon the masters, in the light c
u servile apologists, rather than under th
% guidance of great principles of huma
nature. .a. -.
II 1t is now known that separation {
O. the South from the North was resolve
upon as a matter simply of political an
y bition, without any reference to suppose
e. grievances that the Southern leaders {
a. a means of exciting and uniting the con
II mou people of the South, while their az
it thors, among themselves. never pretepde
10 to believe in the truth of there own repr
i, sentation. s
Is There is. also, the gravest reasons
as believe that all moral restrictions we
ar yielded, aud that crimes the most inf
nous we're deliberately employed as u
a, means of promoting the bad ends of the