Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1865-11-08

Ely declared at the Cooper Institute :
q Abraham Linooln's special mission be
ing accomplished IN the triumph of tn
national arms, Providence saw that hi
kind heart would not permit him to ham,
quite so many traitors as would secur
one country against future rebellions
and SO disposed Of him through the in
I.sBrument Of rebellion itself, for his Owl
historical Immortality, and to malSeplae'
for sterner and less merciful success
Isotl9 a
Here, then, We have it plain and cleal
$50 plain, so clear, that he who runs
may read, and the wayfariug man, though
a fool, shall not err therein. God slew
Abraham Lincoln to make way for His
chosen hangman and eztel 1inator, An
drew johnson. For that being smitten
on the right cheek he eyineed an exag-
gerated disposition to turn theleft cheek
| also to the smiter, for, that being robbed
Tof his cloak he seemed disposed to
profer his coat also to the robber for,
that being reEiled he reYiIed not again ;
for, that, in short, reciting daily the
Lords Prayer, he absurdly sought to
make it a rule Of politics as well as a
form of words, Abraham Lincoln. these
authentic tribuues Of the Gospel assure
us, had forfeited his right to live, had
oatlasted his usefulness in Gods divine
economy, and 50 was considerably put
out of the way, made a martyr Of, and de-
posited-his- body, as the Tribune at the
time assured us, in a coffin gotten up
on a scale-of unsurpassed magni6ceuce
and grandeur, at acost Of nearly two
thousand dollars, and undoubtedly the
most beautiful thing Of the kind ever
manufactured in the cOautry'lhis soul
in the gratitude and the scbool-books Of
his countrymen2-
THIS, then, IS the truth as to the
tragedy Of April II, 1865. To doubt it
is to doubt theainfallibility Of more and
more vociferous prophets than ever Israel
posed. IF you say that to believe it
imppgns the decorum Of the Divine
chanebry and the discretion Of the arch
angelic ministrants Of Heavens will );
that to believe it makes Wilkes Booth an
innoeentif not an admirable beiug-we
must refer you once with your skepticism
to the authentic depositarios of the Di-
vine Intentions.
There are difficulties, certainly, in the
way of the acceptance Of this cheerful
faitA.s 1t is hard to think the Maker Of
Heaven and Earth altogether such an
one as Benjamin F. Butler. It is hard
to think the Author Of the Sermon on
the Mount an accessory before the fact
to assassination as means to.vengeance.
It's hard, above all, to reconcile the ac-
tual forbeaTanee and olemeney and pa
tieuce Of Andrew johnson with his pre-
destined function as the Scourge Of God.
But all these difficulties doubtless exist
only in the perverse and wicked minds of
the unregencrate, The ways of God, to
be sure, we're once said, by possibly i'll
Israelite, to be past finding out
but these more competent Interpreters,
these iutimates of the Almighty, but for
whom His ways might have continued
unsearehable, still live, still keep their
shoulders to the Ark, still preach amongst
US, and viii yet as faithfully curse An
drew johnson fOr his iuconEenient life as
they blessed Abraham Lincoln for his
most convenient death.-K z World.