The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1865-06-10

les. The father was kappy in the sound o1
!, his footsteps and felt the augury of peace.
On the sane day the Lieutenant General
returned. In the intimacy Of his family
the President said that this day the wa,
/ was over. In the evening he sought relax.
!. ation, ,and you know the rest. Alas! the wal
was not over. The agents Of slavery were
!. dogging him, and that night he became IA
martyr, ls3 a.f -
The countTyirose at once in an agony Of
grief, and strong men everywhere wept.-
City, town and village were darkened by
than "soeptered pail" Every street was
draped with the ensigns Of woe. He had
become, AZ it were, the inmate of every
house, and the families Of the land We're IN
mourning. Not only in the Executive
Mansion, but in innumerable homes, was
! his vacant chair. Never before was such
universal sorrow; and already the voice ol
lamenta;ion is returning 10 Us from Europe
where candor toward him had begun even
before death. Only short time ago be
was unknown, except in his own State
| Only ashort time ago he had visited New
| York as stranger, and was shown about
| its streets by youthful companions. Five
years later, he was borne through these
streets with funeral poInp, such as the
world never before witnessed.
| At the first moment it was hard TO COM
pzehend this blow, and many cried in de-
spair. Bat the rule Of God has been 200
visible cf late to allow any doubt OF His
| constant presence. Did not our martyr re-
mind US in his last address that the judg-
altogether. And who will say that his
death was not y judgment of the Lord?-
Perhaps it was needed to lift the country
to q more pe-fec: Justice, and TO inspire Il
with sublimer faith. Perhaps twas sent
in mercy to set q sacred, irreversibie seal
upon the good he had done, and to pu:
emancipation beyond all lpossiblequestien.
Perhaps it was the sacridcial conservation
Of these primal truths, embodied in the
Declaration Of Independence, which he
had SO often vindicated, and for which be
had announced his willingness to die. He
10 gone and he has been mourued sincere
lly. It Is only private sorrow that could
wish to recall the dead. he is now remo-
we'd beyond all human vicissitudes. Life
and death are now past. He had been hap
py in life. he was not less happy in death.
In death, as in life, he WAS stin under the
guardianship Of that Divine Providen1
which took him early by the hand and LED
him from obscurity to fame and power
Only on the Sunday preceding his assassi-
nation, as he Was rePosing on 9 couch, he
read aloud twice the well known words Of
Macbeth:
Duncan IL in his grave,
After LIES ntidl fever he sleeps we'll,
Treason has done his wcr.t; nor ateel nor poi.
Malice domestic, foreign. levy. nothing
Csn touch him further
As the friends who then surrounded him
listened to his reading, they little thought
how, in few days. what was said OF the
murdered Duncan would be said of him.
Nothing can touch him further. He. ia
saved from the trials that were gathering
about him. He had fought the good light
Ncn MAIN hOl hA. 49,. T.
Of war with embattled hosts against him,
and had conquered. He had made the
name Of Republic . triumph and ajoy in
all foreign lands. Now that the strife OF
blood was ended, it remained to be seen
how he could oonfrOn those machinations,
which are only prolongation of the war,
and more dangerous because moro subtle,
Union on their lips, but still defying the
principles of the Declaration Of 1ndepen-
dence, vainly seeks to organize peace on
another oligarchy Of the skin. From all
these trials he was saved. But his iesti.
mony lives and will live forever, quicken.
ed by the undying echoes Of his tomb
Dead, be will speak with moro than living
voice. But the author of Emancipation
cannot die. His immortality on earth has
begun. His country and his age are al-
ready enshrined in his example, ~ il he
were it, great poet, gathered To his fath.
ers: ~
Back to the living he hath turned him, q
And aliof death has passed away;
The aye that thought him dead and mourned
.:seu now lives but IN his lay.
Recurring again TO the con- aarisoa Of
Liz coin with Washington, the orator
maintains that there were physiaal -esera-
blances too striking not 20 be observed. -
Tho sociabili;y, kindness and humor Of
ho fafA Ia a tSfa "a in5D a ~
sim mplic:ty, perception OF moral truth, aud
tendency to expose all moral wrong, and
his courage TO apply truth, are all present.
ed rs exemplary traits, with great cogency
and beauty OF dic;ion; and after striking
analysis OF Lincoln's whole character and
Orange, Henry Nv. Of France and ST. Lou
is OF. France, the .eulogy concludes as
follows:
Such, fellow citizens, is the life and
character Of Abraham Lincoln. You. have
discerned his simple belongings; you have
watched his easy struggles !; have grateful
~ followed his consecration TO those truths
which our fathers declared; have hailed
him as the twice elected head Of the Re-
public, through whom it was known In
foreign lands; have recognized him at a
period Of national trial as tho representa-
tive of the unfulfilled promises OF our
fathers. even as Warrington was the rep
lesentative Of national independence; and
you have beheld him struck down at the
moment Of victory, when rebel slavery
was everywhere succumbing. Reverently
we acknowledge the finger Of the Al
mighty, and pray that all our triale may
not fail !; hut that the promises Of the faith
err may be fulfilled, 90 that ali men shall
b. equal before the law. and government
shall stand only on the consent of the gov
erned. two self.evident truths which the
Declaration Of Independence has an
nOunced.
Traitorous assassination struck him
down. But do not be too vindictive in
heart toward the poor atom that held the
weapon. Reserve your rage for the re-
sponeible power, which not content with
assailing the life ofthe Republic by afro
cious rebellion, has outraged all laws hu-
man and divine, has organized barbarism
a. principle Of conduct; has taken the
lives Of unionists at home; has perpe-
trated robbery and murder on the north
ern borders has fred hotels filled with
women and children has plotted to scat
ter infection and yellow fever has starved
American citizens held as prisoners has
menaced assassination always: and now at
Ho~1 A. ~.