Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-05-04

vi human rights, anu Ills Duelity W Tie
trust Of the American people"
He then spoke of the healthful influ-
ence Of this measure (emancipation)
upon the national cause, and Of the Ia
bors of Mr.. Lincoln to bring his coun-
try through her fiery trials purified and
free. After speaking Of the brighten
ing prospects of the country-of the
scattering clouds and the coming light,
he said:
/ But, alas /! our noble President
whom with trusting steps we have fol-
lowed in the path of victory till we
stood with him beholding the dawn of
peace, is suddenly stricken down in
death |! In the very hour Of his tri-
umph and while stretching out his
mighty arm to pour the oil of healing
into the wounds of his bleeding coun-
try, the hand of the assassin did it's
work, and the spirit of Abraham Lin
coin, the peoples friend, his countrys
deliverer, the martyred hero of liberty,
passed from the tolls and conflicts of
earth to the peaceful repose of heaven |!
He has fallen mar
tyr to the cause he loved and for which
he labored--t the cause of his country's
liberty. He has died in the midst of
his labors to redeem his native land
from the stain of-treason and the curse
of human bondage. His devotion to
freedom has cost him his life. Slavery,
foiled in its desperate and bloody at
tempts to destroy our free government
and to rear upon its ruins despotism
whose chief corner stone should be the
blood, the tears, the broken hearts and
the blighted hopes of millions of hu.
man beings, has attempted to avenge
its defeat by striking down the head of
the nation in the very hour of his tri.
umph, and while counseling forbear-
ance to fallen foe. By this dark, fear
full crime, slavery has filled to over.
flowing its cup of denominations, and
earned anew the death which before it
so richly deserved, And II shall die /!
The unanimous verdict of sorrowing
but indignant people is, that this moth.
err of crimes this blighting, whitening
curse shall perish in the very conflict
in which it hoped to overwhelm and
vanquish the hosts of freedom The
dagger which it aimed at the heart OF
our free government shall be red with
it's own life blood and the grave which
it dug for freedom shall be filled with
the putrefying carcass of the hideous
monster that dug it. r......
But the cause Of lib
erty, which his right hand upheld, has
not fallen with him. II cannot die for
it lives in the hearts and affections of
the people. And although it will pause
to drop tear upon the grave Of its
martyrcd hero, yet it shall move on
again to victory, scattering the dark
clouds Of war, dispelling the gloom q
bondage, shining with its pure radi
ance upon land once dark with op
pression's might, and chanting thu
songs of gladness where once wa,
heard only the dismal clanking of tn,
chains of slavery"
In speaking of the administration
he said: ...a..
at was the best illustration tha
American history affords Of the trutf
that the Republic can only rely for it,
strength and safety upon the patriot
ism, virtue and intelligence Of the pee
pie. 1t is worthy example of thu
power of the united and educated pub
lie sentiment of free and Christian
people. Mr.. Lincoln's administration
was just what the people made it, fo
the President regarded it as his dut,
to do the peoples will. He allowed n,
private ambition to thwart the wishes
of those who SO implicitly trusted him
He saw i'm the hearts of the masses o
the loyal North native impulse tina
arrays society, when left to itself, in
stinctively upon the side of freedom
Justice and truth-and he knew tina
native principle in the hearts of tn,
people developed and educated by Anne
rican growth and culture, would be
come the vitalizing power of our civil
ization, and the sheetanchor of oul
safety. This was his hope for the safe
ty and success of his country. lie pu,
his trust in the Christian hearts o.
twenty millions of American freemen
and that trust was not in vain. 1t has
saved the Republic-and while tina,
strength remains, IRE may not fear fol
the future. The beating, tbrobing,
gushing hearts of the people will not
let the Republic die but from the tur
MOL and confusion Of this fearful strife
thew will reform it, with justice for it's
foundation, ant liberty for its top-stone,
and they will throw over it the protect.
ing mantle of truth which shall Undue
it with its twn unending life. No
the Republic cannot die Tried and
torn it may bet is-but from every
trial it shall receive only strength and
purification-and it shall yet arise from
this crimson baptism free from the bur-
den that now Expresses and encuDbers
it, washed from the foul stain Of ma.
tional dishonor, and speed along path
way of liberty aud light, freighted with
the lives, the Liberties, the hopes and
the destinies of countless Millions
and all those millions free! Our noble
Ship of State, SO long tempest-tost up
on a sea of blood, shall not now fnrl its
sails nor lower that banner which has
been borne aloft in victory through
these heroic days of the Republic.
"Sa on, sail on, oh Ship u statei
Sail on, oh Union, strong and great;
Humanity, with all lis fears,
With all is hopes Of future years,
Is hanging breathiess on thy fate.
We know what master laid thy keel
What rkmau wrought thy ribs Of steel
Who made each mast, each sail each rope;
What anvils rang, what hammers beat;
In what a forge and what heat
We're shaped the anchors Of thy hore.
Fear not each sudden sound and shock
IT'S Of the wave and not the rock,
H IT'S but the Tapping of the sail, ~
And not rent made BY the gale g .H.
In spite u rock and tempest roar go
| In spte OF false lights on the shore;
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