The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-04-28
ALBANS. VT, FRIDAY, April. %, 1865.

Saru ny no creed, or party, or caste,
or color, he received everybody, talked
+ with everybody, and loved to serve
) everybody.
We loved and honored him, too, for
= his integrity He seemed incapable
: of deceit, and insusceptible of cor
ruption With almost unlimited pow
er in his hands, possessing the high
est confidence of the nation and the
enthusiastic devotion of the most re-
markable army the world ever saw,
with wealth of treasure and patron
age at his disposal without precedent,
and surrounded by temptations such
as few men have power to resist, he
lived and died man with clean hands
and name unsullied even by sus-
picion. Nothing but reasonable ma
) Lightly accuses him of anything more
culpable than errors Of Judgment and
mistakes of policy. Never, even to
save himself from blame, did he seek
to disguise or conceal the truth New
er to serve himself did be sacrifice the
interests of his country Faithful
among the faithless, true among the
false unselfish among the grasping, he
walked in his integrity. When he
spoke we believed him. Unskilled in
+ the arts Of diplomacy, unpractised in
the ingenuities of indrection and in
trigue, unlearned in the formalities
and processes of official intercourse,
: he took the plain, honest truth in his
, hands, and used it as an honest man.
He was guilty of no tricks, no double
meaning no double-doaling On all
occasions, in all places, he was "honest
Abraham Lincoln with no foolish
pride that forbade the acknowledge
ment and correction of mistakes, and
no jealousy that denied to his advisers
and helpers their need of praise. The
power which this patient honesty of
character and life exercised upon this
: nation has been one of the most re-
markable features of the history of the
: time.
The complete, earnest, immovable
1, faith with which we have trusted his
e motives, has been without proceed
I ent. Men have believed in him who
4 had lost faith in all around him; and
e when he died, after demonstrating the
T. value of this personal honesty in the
administration Of the greatest earthly
n affairs, he had become the nations
: idol.
+ Again, we loved and honored Mr..
Il Lincoln because he was Christian
0 | can never think of the toil-worn
y man, rising long before his household,
d and spending an hour with his Maker
It and his Bible, without tears. In that
c silent hour of communion, he has
/, drawn from the fountain which has
/ fed all these qualities that have so Won
/. upon our faith and love. All what
o tears, what prayers, what aspirations
r, what lamentations, what struggles
:. have been witnessed by the four wall:
d of that quiet room Aye, what fooc
4 have the angels brought him there
If There day after day, while we have
It been sleeping, has he knelt and prayed
d for us-prayed for the country, prayed
s for victory, prayed for wisdom anC
/ guidance, prayed for strength for hi
d great mission, prayed for the accom-
e plishment of his great purposes
Is There has he found consolation in tri
II al, comfort in defeat and disaster, pa
d thence in reyerses, courage for labor
/ wisdom in perplexity, and peace in the
is consciousness of Gods approval. TIT
l. man who was so humble and so broth
l. erly among men, was bowed with fila
humility before God. 1t was Will
m standing among those who had laiC
ot down their lives for us, that he gav'
ID his heart to the One who had lai'
e. down his life for him. A praying pres
er ident ? A praying statesman A pray
III ing politician? A praying comman
m der-in chief of armies and nayies
I'd Our foremost man, our highest man
es our august ruler, our noblest dignitary
tie kneeling a supplemented child befor
m his Heavenly Father? Oh, when shal
IS we see the like of this again VIII
err should we not mourn the loss of sucl
IS man as this? Why should we nc
of love him as we have loved no othe
u chief magistrate? He was consf
,n Grated man--consecrated to his cour
ne try and his God
lis OF Mr.. Lincolns intellect, / hay
It's said nothing, because there was moth
ed ing i'll his intellect that eminentl
C. distinguished him. An acute an
he etrono common sense sharDly lnulyl(