The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1865-04-25

bold 81 us as gf a woman in Travail. We
knew bot Nha, vii b 70 ihe morrow W.
seen 20 stand upon tbe psriloas iee q souls
deep aa3 lark abyss, whose mad waters
ssifl ani aasi thar iey spray over rs, and
int it are plupgiug oar hopes our iberte,
-uuf free institutions al that We bold
dear earth for the .plrt that uaddea.
ei that 4ssassiu's brain, siii lives "a cur
land Thousands We ieaf arc glt4 that thc
deed D. done, and dared they, would tumbie
our Government into one yasi heap uf ruin
and raise upon il, IN The gloe of Devils The
BLACK banner d anarchy and ola aigAf -
What vas intended aud attempted. more
than VAS accomplished, Is sad proof Of this.
He Aaak Hearta for its pariRg taror.--
May the life and strength Of ON new presi-
dent and bis constitutional advisers be pre-
eious in Is sight
But what iall is this from the height Of
hope and JOS that We had reached one week
ago How inexprcssibly different the scene.
amid the triumph nj Tapping Of the nation 5
banner upon the captured walls Of sumpter,
aud that awful scene when amid the music
aud merrimeuy Of the hour single pistol
shot is heard The instantaneous uueonec.ous-
ness Of our President, his head dropped on
his breast, the scream ofa widowed woman,
aud the deep death slumbers Of her noble
anu honored husband!
7 How Aas the mighty mntu"
/ Many noble aud dear brave ones have
fallen fore, and We had thought our grief
50 deep as not be moved with deeper
sorrow, aud yet we mourn to-day as never
before fulfilling to the letter the words Of
the holy PrOphe at the death oI lsrael's be-
loved King. ''ln that day shall there be a
great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mouru-
ing ol Iladradrlmmoh IN the valley Of Me-
gideon. Aud the land shall mourn every
family and their wives apart. the family Of
the house Of Nathan apart and their wives
apart, tho amiiy of Levi apart and their
wives apart, the family Of Shime apart and
,heir wives apart. An the families that re-
main and their wives apart So it Is this
day.
But amid this quite universal gloom, what
voice above our wall do hear, If not the
voice Of Heaven speaking to US, in the words
oil TIE great Massilon at the Funeral Of his
beloved King contrasting the weakness Of
this monarch with the immutabiiity Of
God God alone Is great ne iioes and
rutes So when Jehovah was pleased to
command the Prophet Isaiah to make pub
lie proclamation in the ears Of the people,
wha. was il think you, he was ordered to
aunounoel The voice said cry, and he said
what shall cryl All flesh is grass and al
the roodlincss thereof is as the flower Of the
fell The grass withereth, the flower fad
eth, because the spirit Of the Lord bloweth
upon it. Surely the people is grass. The
~ 0oa htbiiNitbhf Nilt hONNie ihhGAus Uut btt
Hord ot our God shall stand f0ferer.
lustead theE Of presenting to our eyes the
mutations Of Power, the revolutions Of States
aud Empires, he exhibits most awful spec
taole--the human race withering under the
breath Of His mouth and perishing under
His reUuke, while He plants his word preg-
nant with Eternal Truth, subsistiug from
generation to generation and in undecayed
yIg0r, to conso our wretchedness and i'm
pregnate tie dying mass with the seed Of
Immortality. SO new, as Heayen has shown
how utterly unstable aud uncertain are bare
earthly hopes and props, that mundane
glory must soon fade, the hohored and the
good lie down ln one common grave with the
humble ami obscure, as we feel a drea1 pre-
cariousnsss gathers about our pathway
Oh how glad We are to welcome che subIiee
All up-loomng Trqth-there is God, and
I lie is supreme and good, that though indi-
yIduals die, principles Of truth and right
eousness live, aud will ere long triumph
1 Now is the lime for US to trust IN our
Father God, aud yield our hearts, our coun-
4 try, our all into Ills wise Omuihc hand 10
iore ami OBEY HIN. We needed to be hum
1 bled even in our Joy We needed 70 realize
anew. that there is an overriding God, CD
the Throne
/ aThat a Divinity shapes our ends
| Rough hew them as We Will
Shall We ever again forget this old aud Of
reminded lesson
But to relurn That the death of gisa.
and good men should be particularly noticed
is equally the dictate Of reason as Of Beye-
lation. The tears u lstael flowed ID torrents
atthe deceasc Of good JOSIAH and to bic mem :
ory the funeral women ehanted their solemn
dfges The death oi Washington aud other
Of cur Presidents produced q great sorrow.
Tie tidings especially Of the death Of the
Father Of his Country moved tie infant ia.
ton aud il Sept. The death Of Mn. LIN
coLS--the PreserYer Of our Couutry--Whiie
il causes cur hearts to bleed IN their ansuisa.
yet such we're the circumstances attending
. it, it chills our hops and curiles our blood.
He hos fallen mol in the ordinary movements
Of Diyine Providence but as the result of the
Spirit Of 9orbarism, for years past permeat-
ing the land, and that takes u back 10 the
dark ages for lie parallel Of crime, the spirit
evolved Of physical aud moral oppression.
that has grown up with the history and
strengthened 10 lis atrociiy with the system
of Africaa slavery, whose prime law IL that
might makes rigid. that physical force ].
mightier than moral obligation aud hoiier
than civil Or Divine Law.
We haye heard Of this spirits working IT