Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-06-07
C q As G HNI M iorl Secretaries.


The following are the remarks made by
Mr. Waterman, on being called up -
Mr.. PRESIDENT -LodieS and Gentlemen:
This day will ever be memorable in the
annals of our country The nation, pen
etrated with the deepest grief, assemblies
to pay its last tribute of respect to the
memory of our deceased President. This
! is the third time | believe, in our histo-
ry, that we have been called upon to per-
form this mournful and solemn duty; but
never before have our people been bound
with sorrow so profound and universal.
Presidents Harrison and Taylor, were,
indeed both great and good men; they
had performed eminent public services,
were greatly endeared to their conntrymen,
and, upon their death the lamentations
of the people went up in an utterance full
and sincere. But the nation was then at
peace; tranquility reigncd throughout
our borders, and we were in the full tide
of national prosperity, Besides they were
permitted to die natural death, with no
unusual excitement, no extraordinary cir
'cumstances, to augment the public grief.
How different the case before us !
After four years of the most terrible
and devastating civil war which ever af-
ficted humanity after four years of in
tense agony and suspense, of unequallcd
national calamities, during which the pub
lie feeling was constantly vibrating be-
tween hope and fear, and during which
the virtue and patriotism of the people
were tried as they had never been tried
BEFORE after all this suffering and disas-
ter, when the grim visage of war was fast
fading from our sight and we were chcered
with the prospect of returning peace, our
beloved President, who had SO successfully
conducted us through the storm, in an
unexpected moment and in the full bloom
Of health, was stricken down by the hand
of violence. Never since the creation has
any event, recorded in history, so shocked
the moral sensibilties of the world.
| most cheerfully and cordially concur
in all that has baen said in the eulogy
just issued. But you will permit me to
add, that, in my humble Judgment, no
President since Washington, was SO truly
beloved by his people as was Abraham
Lincoln. 1t is true that during his adj
ministratiop, party feeling at times ran
high, and that in the heat Of spirited
political contest many bitter things were
said which probably would not have been
said in calmer moments. Yet after the
excitement had passed and the election
was over, it is noticeable that the the peo-
pie acquiesced in the result with CRATE
ful composure, which shows that ADRA-
HAM LINCOLN was really enshrincd in the
heart of the nation. This was owing not
only to his great public sc rvices, but
much also to his personal characteristics.
On the whole, perhaps, Mr.. LINCOLN was
as well fitted to carry us successfully thro'
the great storm through which VIC have
just passed, as any man in America. His
amiable character, his kind humour his
genial and cheerful disposition, his solid
good sense, and above all, his uprightness
and integrity, contributed not only to
make him successful ruler, but to com.
mend him, in an extraordinary degree, to
the love and admiration of his country
, men. And the wonder Of the world is,
that which will 60 down to history as
marvel, that man so benevolent, so kind.
ly disposed towards all his fellowmen,
could be regarded by his bitterost enemy
, with that malignant and deadly hatred
which would provoke him to raise the
: bloody hand Of the assassin.