The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-05-13

"A ~. 41 HEiN' " SSAhA SI s4H'El
Or do you almost think, although you see,
That you DO sse' Could thought, without This object,
Form such another' This Is the very top,
II The height, or crest, or crest unto the crest,
81 81 MURDERS arms this is the hloodisst shame,
n That ever wan eyed wrath, or staring rage
N Presented to the tears o. soft remorse.7
4 NEVER has L nation passed more suddenly from
the height Of JOY and triumph to the lowest depths
OF a~ffiiction, than did the American people during
4 the l4th and 18th Of last month. The news
4 brought by the last mail of the surrender of John.
ston's army to Sherman, the fall of Mobile and
4 the virtual extinction of the rebellion, was all
Z overlooked or forgotten in view of that terrible
4 calamity which has darkened n whole continent
: with mourning and tears fell from many an eve
unused to weep. All who love Freedom, of every
Z race and nationality, will mourn fr Honest Abra-
j ham Lincoln, the Savior of the Great Republic.
I the LiberatOr of four millions of slaves. the poor
mans friend, and will esteem his death Il common
calamity TO the human race. Never WAS any
Z President of the United States mOurned for as
deeply as he has been, for no other one has been
50 purely u representative of the cause Of the OPP
4 pressed, or has shed his blood as 4 MARTYR to lib
erty- History will DO justice to that great char
] acter. 50 peculiarly American, to his pure and
unselfsh patriotism, his unaffected modesty, his
-@N NANh hOAbth SIIi DAACllN. ilS tltNdIlOn aDDEe
all party prejudice, his magnanimity and gener-
osity to his enemies, and his incorruptiblc integ-
rity. Never were these noble traits more finely
displayed than in his late inaugural, the cOnclud-
ing words OF which are " worthy of being written
IN letters of gold :" " With malice towards none.
with charity for ali, with firmness in the right.
as God gives us to see the right, let US strive on to
finish the work We are in, 10 bind up the nations
wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the
battle, and for his widow and his orphans to do
all which may achieve and cherish a Just and last
ing peace among ourselves, and with all nations"
Hardly had these noble words ceased to echo
through the Capitol, when, in the hour of victory,
as he was preparing to carry out his far-seeing
plans for the pacifcatiOn of the country, and in
the greatness of his heart to offer an amnesty to
his enemies, he was stricken down by the bullet
Of 4 c~owardly assassin.
This atrocious murder and the fiendish attack
on the Secretary of State, are both proved TO have
been IN pursuance of 4 regularly organized plot to
assasSInate the President, the Vice President and
the whole Cabinet. This diabolical plot reveals
to us in all its deformity the malignant spirit of
this rebellion. 1t is the c~rOwning act of infamv
Of that dark Power of Evil, which has sought the
Nations life, which beat down Sumner in the
Senate Chamber, which buried wounded men alive
ut Fort Pillow, and which has murdered tens of
thousands of brave men by slow torture and star
vation in the horrible pens of Andersonyille and
Salisbury, and in the Libby Prison.
In vain we search the annals of history for n
parallel TO this monstrous crime. From the muir
der of Julius Caesar until now sovereigns have re-
peatedly been assassinated for various causes. but
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nearest approach to it was the assassination of
William Prince of Orange, in 1884, by a religious
fanatic in the employ of Philip IL. Of Spain.
Yet, important as was the life of William of
Orange TO the success Of the Dutch Republic, he !
occupied no such representative position as the
great Emancipator, nor was his death an event of (
such worldwide significance. S
1t is not for us TO interpret the designs Of Prov
idence in permitting this unparalleled crime. But !
probably the Nation needed this terrible lesson to /
awaken it 10 a deeper sense of the enormity of :
treason, and to the necessity of thoroughly exter- {
~minating that system of oppression and barbarism :
which has been the source of all its troubles.
Probably Gen. Lee and others, who have :
broken the most solemn oaths, and whose hands )
are yet red with the noblest blood of the North, s
would otherwise have been ftted by their I
Copperhead admirers even in Northern cities. 8
They will hardly venture now TO offer such s
an insult to q nation in mourning. The wild =
cry for vengeance which rang out through the =
country at first has died away, and calm but 3
inexorable Justice will be meted out 70 the z
ringleaders of the rebellion, and treason viii
continue 10 be regarded. as it has been, the s
highest crime under the United States flag. 3
As for the President ne could not have died -
at a more favorable time for his own fame. 3:
Four years ago he found the government dis s.
armed, bankrupt, and swarming with traitors s
in every department. He afterwards brought {
order out of chaos, crushed the most gigantic s
the world ever saw, wiped the blot =
of slavery from the escutcheon of the Republic, :
again elected by unparalleled reclamation
to its Chief Magistraev, and left it one of the