The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-05-03
Orisiual Mattef.
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dnce Of the funeral obse2uies ot Pres'dem LIN
coin, at Upper Sandusky, April 10, 1865 BY
J. d. Sears. Published BY request Of the Com
mittee of Arrangements.
How sad-how startling-how over
whelmng the blow, which has clothed
,he nation in mourning, and checked the
jubilant voice OF triumph SO lately swell
ing upon every tongue
The brief interval which has elapsed
since the gloomy tidiugs were borne to
US, has served only to change our impul>
sive grief into the deeper, more intensi
fed current of reverent sorrow. We be-
gin more fully to realize the extent OF the
calamity that has fallen upon us, and to
nerve ourselves to the responsibilities
and duties which the occasion demands
Truly, fellow. citizens, we have much
reason to lament, great cause for ihdi-
vidual sorrow and national humiliation,
and many lessons to learn from this great
affiiction.
The death Of the President Of the
United Sta.es--the elected ruler and re
preventative Of this great people-must,
at any and all times, be an occasion Of
deep misunderstanding the vanity Of
earthly power, and the transitory nature
of the most coveted objects of human
desire.
How much more solemn, how vastly
more affecting our present national be-
reavement. The first citizen of the Re-
public, in full possession of the health
and vigor of mature manhood, in the
peaceful enjoyment Of little well-earned
relaxation from severe labor, surrounded
by his family and friends, with no armed
guards, no protection save what the in
visible majesty Of the law affords to the
humblest citizen, unconscious of harm
and unsuspecting of danger is suddenly
stricken down by an assassip--a crime
which disgraces our common humanity
an act in which is concentrated the venom
of foiled ard conquered treason-deteaed
in its attempts upon the nations life. with
devilsh malignity it directs its expiring
energies against the life most dear, most
cherished, most valuable to the nation.
May a swift and terrible retlibution
find out the authors and abettors of a
crime, which has fitly capped the climax
of the infamy of a rebellion in the inter-
ests of barbarism, Of treason fostered by
the desire of perpetuating human servi'
tude.
This foul deed was not only national
disgrace, but deliberate insult to the
nation. An attempt to thwart the popu.
lar will, 10 interrupt the exercise Of pop
ular government, to nullify the popular
spfflage--a too successful effort to wound
the nations heart by blow at its head.
With how much truth may we appro-
pirate the impassoned language of Mark
Antony.
40 what fall was there. my countrymen,
When I and you and all of US fell down,
Whilst bloody treason hourished over u.s."
This outrage is also greatly magni6ed
by other attending circumstances.
After four years administration of the
government, during the most stormy and
trying period of our history. President
Lincoln had been reelected by vast
majority of the people. His policy had
been approved, his official conduct en-
dorsed with unanimity unknown to our
later political annals. The great body
of the people having witnessed the skill
with which he had guided the ship of
State through its many perils. were cen
fdent of his ability to direct the precious
craft in the more quiet course of national
prosperity. Already the storm was sub
siding, the angry breakers had been
stunned, and the safe harbor Of peace
spread her smooth waters in full view
At this hour Of fruition the good pilot is
stricken down, foully murdered at the
helm cut off from the rewards which
he. of all men, had most richly deserved.
1t was not necessary to his fame, or in
dispensable to the nations well-being,
that his life should have been prolonged.
yet every true patriot feels justly indig>
nant that the nation should thus be
baked of its gratitude toward its pre-
server.
1t is not the President alone that We
mourn, but the good and true man, the