, 1865-04-17
0uH GREAT ARFLIC rIOy.

The nation nouns. It's agony is great.
its grief is dumb. Never before have the
American people been SO stricken. The ball
that pierced the President has pierced the
hearts Of all Of Hst: The assassin aimed well
# be thought to I'll with nnuttfrable sorrow
I'll lovers of the Union, of Liberty, and Of
mankind. President Linco1n-whose life was
covered with glory by his falthfuaness to his
country has ascccdcd to his God Pale In
death, murdered By the hellish spirit Of Slare-
RI, which has already drunk the hca-t's blood
OF so many whom VIC !oyed, lis body lies at
1hc nations capitnl-anew sacrifice upon our
country's altAI. AL the land wceps. For
we love none as We loved him. he was so
:.rcat where men arc rarely great-in his SIM
Tlicity, lis integrity, bis purity Of patriotic
PURPOSE, Ills kindness Of heart-especially
toward the class Of offenders before whose
1na1ign[ty he falls martyr. There arc none
in the councils Of the natiou-n there once
1Ccrc. there are none now-who wonld have
suffered from ttcm SO much, yet forgiven
chem SO freely as he. Already the comnla!nt
was upon The lips Of the nation that he was
Id danger Of sacrificing Justice aud security to
Tendency, when be is struck dowf BY those
whom he vas lifting up. He Is murdered by
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eiled.
But while it was cowardly beyond any
crime that history records, and heuaish be-
Sond all that the opening gates Of hell could
reveal, thus to Strike at q, good and great
man solely because the people loved him,
vet We turn from the assassination Of the
President to the attempted murder Of Mr.
Seward, with IN adherence deepened into
blank horror!
Is It possible that an American lives. SO
possessed by the ten thousand flends that The
love Of human slavery begets: that hs can
1nder pretence OF bringt1g medical relief to
q nearly dying man, rush through the friends
and nurses who anxiously surrounded hii
couch md wIth.a dagger let out the life that
tie physicians have despaired.ofs and this,
100. Of ouc who has given nb other cluse Of
ofIeuse than that OF beng only second to Nr.
linro1n in the esteem Of his countrymen-
and especially eminent as scholar, Chris
1ian eta1esE1an, mud n1tlia!or bctvean the
wruth Of The people and the demands Of
Justice upon those very rcbcls who stain his
dcattbcd with his blood.
The spectacle is sickeninc. The humau
1,cart revolving from it vita disgust, loses
filth in humanity, and sinking back like a
child into the arms Of its parent, VIC cI5
unto the God Of the bercayed: Thou God
1cicncst! Fulfill this day to nation III tca:s,
1by holy psomise-'' BLESSED are they that
1nou,n, for they shall be cotnforted.". g. Bless
ed arc they that arc psrsccuted for righteous
ness sake, for theirs Is the Kingdom oi
ucar1n.''
On the eacred anniversary Of the day mace
holy by the cruci1xion Ut Hin who uttered
these words, we mourn another martyrdom.
No temples vail is rent in twain; the earth
doess not quake, nor are the rocks rent as
whcn the Lord Of Glcry finished, In bitter
agony, his appointed work. But our hearts
1us,inctively recognize the relatiou Of lender
and follower between our martyTed Lord and
all those who die because the wicked hate
1igltcousness.
Our President has fallen, II the prime Of
h!s energy and usefulness, another martyr to
1he demon-Slavery. His fame undimmcd
Tln shine brighter md brighter, as rebellion
disappears and the Union eurylTcs-c1eavcr
and hoiitr. us eiavcry passes into history and
Liberty fills the world.
Those who thought to end his career have
crowned hiss purr fame With Immortality
Those who thought to cruelty the spi,it or
FREEDOM Will behold It roll away the stone
from the sepulchre. md visit. with Pen,e-
costal cffusion, Its disciples. inspiring them
with faith TINT shall orerturn the world
Hitherto the name Of Washington has stood
first in War, first in peac.', first In the hearts
Of Ills countrymcn. Els Star shall not de
crease, but that ofano,her shall increase: I'M
til. richer and more heavenly tha1 the faut
of him who cmanclpatcd his country will b.
The elo1y Of him who gave emancipation u
an outcaet race and people. The first ma
anuuly and pu.riottc; the last WAS Christ
ak" and divine. Those who are nov yount
will hut live to sec tbc dawufns Of the ta1n'
and power of tie xuartyrcd Lincoln.