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

Individual. II the inquiry 10 made Wheih.
the. man 30 trusted and believed shall elicit
from the reasons Of the people enduring
1ustitutons OF their'ownI or shall seuus ster
political power for a'superintendiug dynas.
y, the United States must live TO solve the
problem. II q question Is raised on the
respective merits OF Timoleon or julius
Cesar, OF Washington or Napoleon, the
United States must be thereto cell to mind
that there were twelve CasaFs, most of
them the opprobium of the human Rsce,
end TO contrast with them gthe'-line of
American Presidents. The duty of the
honr 10 incomPlete, our mourning is lnsinS
cere II while We express unWavsring
tFustin the great principles that ,Guderlie
our government, we do not also give our
support 10 the man to whom the hpeople
have entrusted tsadministration. Andrew
johnson is now, BY the constitution, the
President of the United States, and he
stands before the world as the most ycon-
spicuo1s representative of the industffal
classes. Left an orphan at four years old !,
poverty and toll were his steps 70 honor
His youth was not passed in the halls of
colleges; nevertheless he has received q
thorough political educstionfin Statesman.
ship In the school of the people and bylong
experience of public life. A village func.
tionary; member successfully Of each
branch ofthe Tennessee legislature, hearing
with thrill ofjoy, the words, " the Union,
1t must be preserved;" representative in
Congress for successive years; Governor
of the great State of Tennessee, approved
asits Governor byre. election; he was at the
opening Of the Rebellion Senator from
that State in Congress. Then at the Gap
ltol, when Senators, unrebuked by the
Government, sent word by telegram to
seize forts and arsenals, he alone
from that Southern region told them what
the Government did not dare to- tell them,
that they were traitors, and deserved the
punishment of treason. tUndlBmayed by q
perpetual purpose of public enemies to.
take his life, bearing up against the still
greater trial of the persecution Of his wife
and children, In due time he went back to
his State, determined to restore 1t to the
Union, or die with the American flag for
his winding sheet And now, at the call
of the United States, he has returned to
Washington as conqueror, with Tennes!
see as free State for his trophy. It re-
mains for him to consumate the vindiea-
tion of the Union. To that Union Abra.
ham sLinooln has. fallen martyr. His
DEATH which was meant to, sever it beyond
repair, bindsi it more closely and more firm-
,ly than ever. The blow aimed at him, was
aimed not at the native of Kentucky, not at
the citizen of Illinois, but at the man who,
as President; in the executive branch of
the government, stood as the representa-
tive of every man in tho United States
The object of the crime was the life of the
whole people; aud it wounds the affections
of the whole people. From Maine to the
southwest boundary of the Pacific, it
makes US one. The country may have
neaded an impefishable grief to touch its
inmost feeling. The grave that receives
the remains Of lincoln, receives the martyr
to the Union; the monument which will
rise over his body will bear witness ID the
Union; his- enduring memory will assist
during the eountlesS sges to bind ,the states
together, and to incite to the love OF our
one undivided, indiVisibls country. Peace
to the ashes of our departed friend, the
the friend of his country and his race
Happy was his life, for he was the restorer
of the republic; he was happy in his death
for themAnneF of his end will plead for.
ever for the Union of the States and the
freedom Of man. So EErIaOs1