M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1865-05-04
George FRANCIS Train-The
Funeral of LihcoIn-Fu-
ture Policy.
From tho Washington National Rapublsan.l
THE EAST RO m

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WILLARD's HorRLJ
ANEIvRRsARV BLrrLE Of LBxIdsToS, 1855
lam the rasursctiOn aud shs lifo."
Dead silence reigned. The ser
vices had commenced. Eight hund
red men, and perhaps a dozen of tn
other sex, stood around the coR 4, n
more although perhaps, there yer
twenty thOusands applicsnts for tick,
cts. harrington lie stern AMI saaII
in manner, but Sssfect 10 his arfans
ments. One hitch, as in E irop.
the Diplomatic Corps proceeded ia,
Chief Justices. As the Chief Jus.
tiGe on the death OF Johnson an,
Foster, would have beeu Presiden'
Mr. Chase claimei for tho bench pr
ority, and think b, was right. -
What an assemblagel rner, wer,
ut least five hundred present wa) eX
pect some time to be President.
have seen many great pageants il
my day, but none impressed me like
this. Ffteen years have p1s'e sine,
| stood in the East Room 1t seem
an hundred, have lived SO fast -
Most OF the nations have lost a kina
since that day. Then Davis was pre-;
ent, and the room was full or embryo
rebel leaders. Clay was alive, aud
Wehster'
What a change between then and
now! Ten thousand in our army, now
million. Twenty men -of. war, n Nv
Elk hundred. Our debt fifty million,
now four thousand millions. Then
We were the audience Europe and
Asia the actors, now a thousanl mil
lions in the dress circle and thJ pit,
and We the actors. Europ, gave Us
six lines of teIcgraDhic news when
the Canarder arrived, nov six co..
nmns. Then State rights mean Se-
now State rights signifies
American nationality, The New
World was then defendant, now plain
tiff. The venue is changed. Europe
has patrOniz ID US, wd shall now pat.
ronize Europe. Then England g,t up
societies to liberate tho blacks in
A merica, now America will do the
same to emsncipate the whites in g
gland. Then the D.mcratic party for
cling down the nations throat the poi
uted dUctriues Of Bright and COblen
our natural enemies\, free tea To-.
low, thank God! the national debt
based on the national faith, guaran-
ees protection to the American IN
lustry The lngerspIs, Woods, Gays.
Deans, Mo Cunns, and Uhancey Burrs
made another great mistake in cele-
'rating Jetfersoh's birth day by rec
'n'mending tie Democratic pary to
tand on The basis of repudtatton
That is intamy, as State rights was
isunion, and free trade was destruc-
ion.
All nations had had the disease Of
mumps, chickens pox, inca
els, and whooping cough, yet they
eem surprised to see our slight at
ack of varilold. England paid eight
hundred millions sterling ct fifty dis
cunt to advertise Ter miserable little |
sland. We have paid NJ more, and
et are riready bette: known and
more respected.
The. East Room contained more
rains than in any assembly that ev-
r met on great occasions. am viii |
ing to measure the heads of our states
men with those Of the Europeans pre-
ent. We have more twenty four inch |
leads tEalIHall the world beside
)hase is a model head, but it took
irant to whip Lee. But there is
normous individuality in that square
cad of Johnson. The brain to con-
rive, the will to execute, is there. II
sead that Inaugural speech again.
The one great idea therin was too
reat to be dwarIed by style or taste.
here was nothing incoherent in the
Vords he kept repeating 'Ds the
'e0pIe." That was uppermost in his
houghts. Don't forget said the
rhine Minister to Inc at the Inaugur
ton Ball. that Andy Johnson stood
p alone-the only one of thirty two
lave State Senators the old dag
nd remember how like hero, he
ought for it through Tennessee. Tax
1g his life in hand, he stood at bay
gainst the traitors of his State in
ne field as well as in the forum.
We used to hear about Northern
len with Southern principles. Andy
ohnson will be Southern man with
ational principles. | think it is about
lme to have mother land of our
wn. America on the 14th of April
as twenty one years OF age! Down
nth the partisan and up with the