New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-04-19

with Abraham Lincoln 10 pacuy inc county
It's close and heal the gaping wounds opened By
four years OF desperate, bloody conflict: but il
was otherwise decreed.
There was never an hour when the strength,
the resources of the Republic were not ample
or the direct and signal overthrow of Slave
lolding Trcason but the imbccility, incapacity
md lack of purpose, so common among ON
high Military officers in the early stages of on
trugglc- disqualifcations which our Com
nander-n- Chief should have promptly over
ONE. even though il had been requisite tt
boot a General daily for two or three months
.one rendered our success at best doubtful
Hence, foreigners, who noted the effect without &
knowledge Of the cause-confidently and no
anreasonably, predicted our ultimate failure
II was a perfectly natural, though happily Ill.
rounded, deduction that a Government that
ond lose such a battle as that of Bull Run,
when it had superintendent means TO win il,
would never put down a gigantic Rebellion
But our President was like our horse Eclipse, in
he great Northern and Southern match race OF
I-2i. wherein the North was badly beaten Oh
the first heat, but won the second and third.
4, Premier Of Government like the British.
where the position requires skill and tact in de
5ate while the duties Of administration az.
divided. Mr.. Lincoln would have been far NOR
happily placed and would have done better SCI
vice than in our Presidential chair, wherct
he incumbent must mainly speak and nc
through others. Hi forte lay mainly in de
bate, or rather in the calculation of proioun'
truths, so that they lean hardly eyade the dulles
No other man ever S.
uccessfully confronted, before u prcjudiccd,
ncgro-dcspising audience the plausible iallaciet
# Senator Douglass Wanted Popular soyc-
|reignty." His familiar exposition OF that
doctrine in his Springfield speech opening The
Senatorial canvass of ls5S-"I If \. wants to
make b. slave, {. shall not interfere was
only paralced in that passage of one of his
|replcs TO his great antagonist, which reads:
NV distinguished ficnd says it is an insult TO the
lcmigrabis of Kansas and Nebraska 10 SUPPOSE that
they cannot govern themselves. We must not sur over
au argument OF ills Kind because n happes To tickle
the ear. / admit that the emigrant 10 Kansas or
Ncbra,ka is competent to govern himsof bAfI dng
his riFh 10 gorOH any oh0 PTs9A rih0H haf PtfsOh
c0RsenL
Men Of greater talent have made Republican.
speeches in this City; but Mr.. Lincoln's Cooper
Institute address OF March. lo6O, remains to
this day the most lucid cogent, convincing argu-
ment of them ALL So at the conservation OF
the Gettysburg National Cemetery (NOv 10Th,
Is63) where Edward Everett made an elaborate
and graceful Grafton, and others spoke fifty and
well, the only address which the world will re-
member was that of the President. who simply
said:
"FoursoOfe and seven years ago fathers brought
forth upon this continent new natlon conceived 1T
liberty and dedicated 10 the proposition that all men
are created equal. Now We arr engaged IN great
civil war testing whether that nation or any nation 80
conceived and 40 drdceiod can long endure We ere
met great BATH, field u that war We have come
20 dedicate portion of that fcld as hnal festins
place for those who here gave their lives that That
nation ms ~ live. IL d. altogether hitting and proper
that we should do tls Hui IN larger sense We can
not dedicate. We cannot conscciaic. We cannot hallow
this ground. Tie brave men. living nnd dead. wlt
struggled ere have cOnscCrsicd h far above power
20 add dcirBc The world viii little note nor long
remember what We lay here. but y can never forget
what they did here. III n for ~ the living rather 10 De
G.dcai I'd here TO the unfinished work Which they who
fought here have tins far nohy advanced. II is
manning before w. t'ai nom tlese holorcd drad We
take increased devotion ~ that cause fr which they
gave The last foil measure oi dcyoiion Tat We mere
highly resolve that tlc.o dead shall not have dicd Ia
vain. that this nation under God shall have ne"
h.iih oi freedom and that government OF tie people
he people. and ~ lie pfope shall not perish IRON
he earth
- have not assumed TO control events
event, have controlled me-" said Mr.. Lincoln
n answer TO Kentucky complaint that he wa
more radical in l-6i-j than he had been IN
l-6l-2. That wa, tho simple truth, naiycly
and ter.cly exprcs,cd; and IN that truth is ex-
Inhibited both the weahnc, and The strength of the
iutiercr H. wa not the man OF transcendent
genius 81 rare insight, of resistless force Of
character, who bends everything 10 his will:
|On the contrary he was one Of those
who have awaited opportunity, and thought
Hong and patiently, before yenturing on an
important step, hcarhcnng intently ioI
Ithat "yo.ce Of the people" which was
Iic him, in most eases, 4" tie voice Of God" He
|hcstated TO put down his foot, feeling The
ground carefully, deliberately; but, once down,
o was hard 70 make him take il up again. A
striking and hororcd cxcmplar Of some of the
best point in our National character, he sleeps
the sleep of the h0nored and just and there are
few graves which will be more extensively, per-
sistcntly visited or believed with the tears Of
a peoples proudcl, londcr affection. than That Of
Abraham Lincoln.
THE NORTH CAROLINA SUCCESSES.