Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-04-29
ERARLY aADVRRFIbFNa.

The Great OFetionI OF Bancroft, ths
Historian, In New Fork on Tuesday
last sCOmmemorRtIVe OF the NatIbny
Al Funeral ObSequIes.
I Our grief and horror att the crime which
has clothed the Continent in mourning
find no adequate expressiony in words and
and no relief in tears. The President ol
the United, States Of America has fallen by
| the hands OF an assassin. Neither the Office
with which he was invested by the appfov.
ed choice of a mighty people, nor the most
simple. hearted kindliness of nature, could
save him from the fiendish passions of re-:
lentless faneioism, The wailings of the
millions attend his remains as they are
borne in solemn procession over our great
rivers, along the seaside, beyond the moun.
taips, across the prairie, to their final
resting plhee In the valley of the Missis,
sippi. The echoes of his funeral knell VIZ
brate through the world, and the friends or
freedom of every tongue aud in every
climate are his mourn6fs. T6o few daVs
have passed away since. Abraham Lincoln
stood in the hdsh' or vigorous manhood to
permit any, attempt at an analysis of his
character or An exposition of his careee.-
We hpd it hard to believe that his large
| eyes, which in their softness and beauty
expressed nothing but beneVoleuce and
g6hTlensss, arelclosad iu.deAth I'VE almost
look for the pleasant smile that brought ont
more viVidly the earnest cast Of his features,
which were serious even to sadness. AIfew
EaarsI aguj he was village attorney en-,
gagged in the support of rising family un-
khoWnto fRwoi HcsreelY named beyond his
neighborhood;, his administration madeIhim
the most c6uspicuous man in his country,
and drew on him first the astonished gaze,
then the Faspeeti .andI Rdmiration Of the
world. Those who come after us will de-
eide hoF gmpoh of the NondeEfpl results of
his public hAfeer isStue 70 hi own rood
common sense, his shfeWedS d Eoity, rsadi.
ness of wit, quick interpretation eff the
public mind, his rare combination of fixed
ness and pliancy, his steady tendency of
purpose; how much to the American peo.
pie, who, as he walked with them side by
side, Inspired. him with their. own wisdom
and energy; and how much to the over
ruling laws of the moral world, by which
the sel6shenss of ,eyil, 10 made to defeat
itself. But after every allowance, ID will
remain that members of the Government
which preceded his administration opened
the gates to treason, and he closed them;
that when he went to Wsshington the
ground on which he'trod shook under his
feet, and he left the Republic one solid
foundation; that traitors had seized public
forts aud srseIAls, and he recover them
for the United States, to whom they be.
loHged; that the capital, which he found
the abode of !alsYes, is, DOW the home only
of the free; that the boundless public do
main which was grasped at, and, in great
measure, held for the diffusion of Slavery,
is n owH irreV6eably udeVoted to freedom;
that then men talked a jargon of balance
of power in a Republic between Slave
States and Free States, and now the fool
ish words are blown away forever by the
breath of MarylRndI' Missouri and Tennes.
see; that a terrible cloud of political heresy
rose from the abyss threatening to hide the
light of the sun, and under its darkness Q
rebellion was rising IL, indefnable propor-
tons; uoW the !. atmosphere ,-is purer than
ever before, and the insurreotion is vauish-
ing away; the country is cast into another
mold, and the gigantic system of wrong,
which has been the work of more than two
centuries, fs dashed down, we hope torev-
er. Aud as to himself personally; he was
then scoffed at by the proud as unfit for
bis station, and now, against, the usage of
later years, and in spite of numerous COM
petitors he was the unbiased and the un.
doubted choice of the American people
| for Q second term of service. Through all
the mad business Of treason. he detained q
ts1 SetSesssof & mostA hAcSble disposition;
aud the slaughter OF tnyrisds Of the best
on the battle field and the more terrible de-
struotion of our men in captivity by the
slow torture Of exposure and starvation,
had never been able TO provoke him. into
harboriug one vengeful feeling or one purl
pose of cruelty. How shall the nation
most completely show its sorrow at Mr..
Lincoln's deatb3i How stAlIit best honor
his memoty? oThefeu can be but one an
lswer.' HefWss struck down when he was
ifhfghesti6 It's SeFVice, and in strict con
formity with duty was engaged in carry
ing out principles affecting its life, its good
name, and itSf6I6tfons TO th6caus6 of free.
dom, : and TIE 'pfoHFes5 oEnaukind. Grie
must 6AaEeIth4 IGhtiracter of action, and
, breathe itself forth In tho assertion of tht
policy to which he's fell a sacrifice. The
standard which he held in his hand mus
be uplifted again, higher and more firmly
than; before, and must be carried on to trf
umph, .Eyett thing else, ,his'proclamatio
of ffhs fret day. Or Jahuary, 1868, declaring
through ghoht the phtts of the country
lin lrtbeilion thS freedom of all per
sons who have been held as slaves, mus
be affirmed and maintained. Events, III
they rolled coward, have removed ever
doubt of the legality and binding force o
,I1ha1pEodsmattoGD The county aud th
Rebel Government have each laid claim I,
the public service. of the slave, and yet bu
one of the two can have q rightful, CLAIM
to such service. That rightful claim be
longs to the United States, beCAuse ever,
one born on their soil, with the few excep
tispS Of he children ef tFagelers and tran
fsient tesfdehts, SResA4hemN0 primary allie
giAncsy sEssyTps.so born hSs been count
every slave has isFerz Be6G represented i
iOousress+ +imperfectly and wrongly 1t ma,
II but still Il has. been counted And rep
u IhesenIed., The slRHeLbDrn on our soil owe