Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-11-18
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given utterance TO few months ago:
The warts virtually ended. Where are
the will Q -the-wisp statesmen and gener-
ais who led the abolition party through
the bloody, lanes Of ,yrrauy aud power,
from plumber to corruption !? ta ] -
Where is Phillips and Garrison and
Gerrit Smith?
Quiet and disguised. ~s,g> -
Where il Greedy end the New York
Tribune, once = power in the land?
Greeley is overgrown with Feeds"
and the Tribune is fourth on the list OF
papers it oaos headed.
Where is Butler, the chief coward and
renegade.
Defending himself before innumerable
courts, charged with stealing private prop
erty under cover of the flag he was sworn
to protect, aud bye.word IN the mouth
of every honest man. The second Judas
lscariot, where is he
Where is Banks?
Where is Burnside ?
Where is Fremont2
Where is Sige?
Where is Lincoln, the joking patron
saint OF nigg rism, who owes ), much TO
John Wilkes Booth, and who is well mig b
forgotten already, with hardly dozen in
the land to revere. his memory.
Where is chaser 49,
Were is Brough?
Where is that crowd of Constitution
breaking. Iaw-despising fungus?
Gone or going into oblivion, leaving a
nation in tears, a country in ruin, a once
happy people 10, oebt aud taxation, a
TT. asury .Qpce we'll filled with coin empty
and thousands of millions for US to pay.
They ME gone to prrditien and their VIC
timspre many. They are gone from their
field Of power.
Right u. again triumph aag.
A s,atesn.a an instead Of a clown is now
President and the element which two
years since said President can do 20
wrong, is row arraigning itself again st
the head OF the Nation and trying to drive
him from the Constitution behind which
he is intrenched.
We deprecate assassination, yet we feel
tethsHsks Goa, fss- ealhhg Lnc,,.n home,
wherever that home may be. The will of
God be always done on cath as it ia
done in heaven. Not all the cannon in
the world never sent an echo so fur Into
the trture as did the repor, of pistol
that fatal nigh, IN Washington theater,
where great men were play = and nations
the spectators. 1t woke up .ne people Of
America II broke the spell. II gave
the country statesman for President,
1t flashed its sic semrer tyraaais from
Maine to the golden strands OF our West.
ern boundaries. and halted the advance of
usurpation mos. etfeetaaly.
Lincoln has gone. Booth has GONE
The Nation wep., and yet for what i, did
not know
The old clouds are passing away. The
past, with its tales Of blood, its prison
celis--i's clash of arms, its arbitrary ar
rests-i.s shrieks of wounded, its gigantic
swlhd!ers-i's groans of dying freemen,
Its stnpendons frauds-its clouds OF battle
sm1ke, its era Of proligacy and ircomre
.ency--its tria,ng with Americas Ges,l-
MES has gone, and God be praised Peer
ing through the bloody vista rising grad
ually in lovable suoIimi,y, lifting itself to
meet the wish of millions, there once
more comes to the Nation, Democracy,
talismanic word Of blessed hopes and Joy.
Gus memories The people have tired of
strange doctrines. and every breeze comes
laden with & lad tidings of return to he
only true principles Of government. De-
mocracy still lives. 1t cannot die, for
with il dies the hope of the Nation, the
Republic itself And we shall live to
chronicle its full restoration to power and
to m,ng'e onr voices with those who will
reJo'ce, as surely as we have lived to see
come and 20 thu men named above and
the principles they advocated.
NE Pope>hAs again pronounced. an a.
iocu'ion which is making some stir in
Europe. This time b. warns the faithful
against the Free Masons, reminding them
that several of his predecessors have pro-
scribed and reproved that sect, the en-
trance into which they declared should
entail RECOMMENDATION, which the Pope
Ia, n