The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-04-29

SATURDAY, APRIL -. |,
LINCOLN AT PHILADELPHIA.
"Oocasionap' (John W. Fornsy) writes
thus 10 the Philadelphia Press from
Warrington:
On Saturday the People Of Eastern
Pennr ylvanis will seesivs the RENAME Of
our 6 ,od President, and assist in laying |
them cut in state, under the sacred shelter
Of Ind ependence Hall. A holy pause in
this his inal journey. Again the quick
memory looks back, through weeping eyes,
70 the 22d Of February, 1861, when tho
tall form now stretched in death raised oar
eountry's Gag 1t the very threshold Of tho
temple in which the early Statesman
swors an cath never BROKEN, and thous-
and times baptized in precious blood. to
defend and preserve the American Union.
There was an eloquencs in the purpose Of
this ceremony, and solemnity in the
manner Of its performance. No other
President had been present at such .
manifestation ct the door Of the casket
that holds nations jewels. The prede-
cessors of Mr.. Lincoln had oil visited In
dependence Hall, either before, during,
or after their official terms. The three
first had sat within its sacred walls. and
deliberated upon the undying manifesto
that made it immortal But of the sixteen
citizens who have held the Presidential
office, only one was called to raise the
national standard at its threshold. The
reason lie not that they did not revere and
would not protect it at whatever cost, bu,
that it had never been endangered by thu
worst of all dangers rebellious war
created to crafty revenge and ambition
and waged with q ferocity all the NOR
terrible because stimulated by the pur
pose of keeping millions Of human being
in slavery.
Now, when that flag was elevated, il
1861, it was an earnest covenant that n
successful blow should ever be aimed b
these traitors at our liberties. Wher
Lincoln placed its glories, let them fos
tomorrow and for ever. Let Gods Sab
bath sun smile on them as the tens Z
thousands Of worshippers march Wit
solemn step and slow TO gaze on the line,
ments of that face. now rigid in death
which, this very day one week ago. CLEAN
ed with benevolencs and sparkled vi.
the remembrance of well-won victory
-Four years since the Presiden, elect passe
through Philadelphia to the capital Of b
country; tomorrow his mortal tenemel
is to be borne through the same prou
city to his last home. In the monopo
of woe over . loss so measureless, v
cannot count the tears nor the signs
millions. But it was something to 81
the veterans of SO many glorious fight
the statesman Of so many winter, Il
sagss of the land, bowling before his co
fin as it lay 10 the Rotunda of the Cap
tol at Washington, on Thursday. N
one Of the great actors of other eras, pr
served in canvas and marble and mets
looking down like living mourners Q
that honored catafalque. ever filled b
space with more dignity than the de-
LINCOLN. Not Columbus, from his brax'
door: not De Soto, planting his cross
the Mississippi; not Pocahontas, shriv,
. Christian for proving herself human
not for Miles Standish, on the May6owe
not William Penn, making peace with 4
Indians; not Benjamin Franklin, in /
inspired philosophy; not the fiery Patri,
Henry, as he CALCULATED his war-cry in I
Virginia House of Delegates, nor Il
equally fiery John Adams, as he shout
it in Boston not Washington, with b
sword nor Jefferson. with his pen; o
Hamilton, with his statesmanship n
John Jay or John Marshall. the pure
jurists of our earlier or later history q
Perry, the sea king of 1919. riding
pillows Of blood through line Of blszir
ships; nor jackson, with his triple Il
umph over savage and Briton, and Il
spirit Of incipient treason not one "
more worthy of the genius of the pc,
the panter.the sculptor. and the orate
than the gentle and illustrious patriot v
Is to be taken into the embrace of Ind
pendence Hall Tomorrow afternoon.
OCCASIONAL.