The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1865-04-01
THE PRESIDENTS INAUGURAL.

TELEow- COuNTRYMEN At this second APP
pearing to take the oath of the Presidential
Office, there il less occasion for an extended
address than there was at first. Then .
statement somewhat in detail, Of the course
to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper
Now, at the expiration of four years, during
which public denunciations have been con-
stantly called forth on every point and phase
of the great events which still absorb the
attention and engrOss the energies OF the
nation little that is new could be presented.
The progress of our armies, on which all else
depends, is as well known to the public as to
myself and is, / truSt, reasonably satisfactory
! With high hopes for the future, no prediction
in regard to it has been veDtured. On the
occasion corresponding to this four years ago,
all thoughts were then anxiously directed to
the impending civil war, and all sought to
avert it and while the inaugural address,
when being delivered from this place, was
devoted altogether to saving the Union the
insurgent agents were in this city, endeavor-
/ ing to destroy the Union and divide it by
negotiations. Both parties deprecated war,
but one of them would make it rather than
let the nation survive, and the other would
accept war rather than bet it perish-and war
colored slaves-not distributed equally over
the land, but localized in the Southern part
of it. These slaves constituted d peculiarly
powerful interest. All knew that this interest
was somehow the cause of the war. To
strengthen this institution and extend its in
Fterest was the object for which the insurgents
would rend the Union by war, while the
Government claimed no right to do more Than
restrict the Territorial enlargement of it,
Neither party expected for the war the dura-
ton or magnitude which it has already at
tanned. Neither anticipated that the cause OIL
the conflict might cease, OF in any event be
fore the conflict itself should cease-each
looking fer an easier triumph, and a result
less fundamental.
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the
same God each invokes His aid against the
other. 1t may seem strange that any man
should dare TO claim the just Gods assistance
in wringing the bread from the sweat of 9TH
er mems faces, but let us judge not that we
may not be judged. The prayers Of both |
could not be answered, and neither has been !
answered fully. The Almighty has his own
purpose. Woe to the world because of offense, /
for it must needs be that offenses come but I
woe to the man by whom offense cometh. / +
shall Suppose that American slavery is one
of the Ofenses. The providence of God must
needs come, but this having continued through /
His appointed time, He now wills more than
he gives to both North and South. He evea
war as woe due to those by whom otfense
came. Shall we discern that there is any \
departure from these divine attributes, which Ii
believers in the living God always ascrbe to II
nimf Fondly as we hope for the event, DO {
we pray that this scourge may pass away
yet If God Wills that it continue until the +,
condiments two hundred and fifty years of +,
lnrequlted toll shall be sunk, and until every
1rop of blood drawn By the lash shall be
stoMed for another drawn by the sword, as
vas said three thousand years ago. Still, it
must be said that the judgments of the Lord
ire true and righteous altogether, with NAL
ce towards none, with charity to all, with
irmness of right. AS God gives US to see
he right, let US strive and finish the work we
re in, bind up the material, and care for him
Who shall have borne the battle, and for his
widow and his orphan, and do all that we
nay be able to achieve and cherish just {
nd lasting peace among ourselves and with r
II nations. /