Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-03-04
INAUGURATION Day.

nm l;ftle nneasjness in the hearts of patriots
Threats had been freely uttered that he'neVer
should occupy the Presidential chair the air
vas nregnant with rumors of assassination of the
newlv-elected Chief Magistrate, and attempts
were made to enforce them armed men were IN
Washington for the purpase OF nterruptlng the
iauquration ceremonies by force, and Southern
members of Congress kept up the agitation oy
declaring that Lincoln never would be President
of the Unitel States, but perely the nominal
Chief of disrupted Union that his presence
in Washington was an insult to the South, and
that he would soon be compelled to seek Capt.
tai upon Northern soil.
Thanks to the vigilance of the brave old hero,
Gen. Scott, disturbance avoided, and IN a
firm, clear voice President Lincoln declared that
THE UNION MUST BE PREsERvED-that he was in
favor of Peace, but the laws of the United States
must be obeyed, and t at it treason to sur
render Government property to any State.
The people OF the Northern States breathed
freezer when they knew that the imbecile old rai-
tor, Buchanan no longer had power to aid the
Seceders applauded the sentiments of the new
( IEtSldtht, lot MS WoTuS expressed the leeiHBs
of every true patriot in the land. The Southern
States replied with taunts and insults they tor
tured the peaceful expressions of the Chief Mag
istrate into a declaration of war the willy con-
sprators at Montgomery spared no pains TO still
further nfame the minds of fiery Southrons, and
they succeeded only to we'll
The eventful history of the past four years is
fresh in the memory of our readers. In charac-
ters of fire and blood is it traced, and years will
be required to heal the wounds caused by fratri-
cidal hands. Nearly every household mourns
the loss of hero who has fallen in defense of
liberty, or been tortured TO death in some pris-
on-pen in the South. The garb of mourning is
seen in every city, town and hamlet in the 10y
al States Four years of war and sorrow But
the sublime reward of all these years of suffer
ing is the restoration of the Union and the hu-
m3}iation Of traitors!
The close of the 8th day of November last
which told us of the reelection of Abraham
/ Lincoln. was the most memorable time in our
history The stern, ntexible spirit of our Pu-
ritan Fathers still animated their descendants,
md though knowing that the reelection of Lin
coin meant war, and that peace. an ingorious,
shameful peace was certain if his opponent was
! CHOSEN, tHey never WlNertu Or 1dilereu, ana LIN
coin was triumphantly reelected. 1t was sub
lime spectacle to people come forward and
offer their wealth and their sons in vindication
of our National honor. 1t showed to the civil
lied world that our form of government was the
strongest and best oil earth, and that the hero
ism of Romans and Spartans paed before the
5elf-sacriicc of American republicans.
Again the 4th of March-Inauguratio Day
is here. but it is met with far ditfcr5n feelings
from that of four years ago. Then all was
doubt and confusion now We feel in our hearts
/ the consciousness of strength and confidence of
victory. The rebellion was then growing in
/ strength, gaining adherents every day now
the monster is shorn of its strength its vitality
! exhausted, and ready to succUmb. Then slave
IT, was all-powerful, even sacred and statesmen
bowed to the black deity. Now the dark mon
arch is dethroned, the black idol shattered, and
very soon our country will be in fact what un-
til now was bat poeticai fiction, 4" The Land
of the Free - The Hercules who strangled the
monster is Abraham Lincoln his Emancipation
Proclamation alone secured for him niche in the
halls of Immortality. To-day grateful nation
rewards him by renewing his power for four
years, and rs if fate wished to make his second
/ crowning the most brilliant in our history it pre-
sontS him through glorious Sherman. n series of
victories which the most sanguine dared not hope
for one year ago Savannah. Charleston, Nil
mington, Columbia convinced by the pointed
arguments of Federal bayonets. now acknowl-
edge Lincoln as President and with God 5 assis-
tance all Dixie will soon learn that legally
elected President has the same power in South
Carolina and Georgia in Maine and Vermont
/ We rejoice that the people Of New York in
consideration Of our unprecedented victories, in
tend to have glori6cation to-day, and they in
yite all the people, from Maine to California to
do the same. Let consider it National hol-
iday il is worthy that honor. What say our
people of the town and county ?