The weekly union record., 1865-04-22
Abraham Lincoln.

ASSASSINATION OF President Lincoln. No event
in American history has caused so profound al
Impression on the minds Of SO large number
Eof people as this brutal assassination. The
Eiuexpressible atrocity of the act Is heightened
sby the Developments DOW made that it is the
result Of plot, with widely extended ramifca
ztious, to asssssinate the President, Vice Presi
fdent, and all the members OF the Cabinet, to
3gether with Lieutenant General Grant. and
sthus to paralyze the Government at one blow
Ill is fortunate for humanity that the plot did
Z znot wholly succeed, for rivers Of blood would
have scarce sufficed TO satisfy the vengeance Of
people already outraged to the very verge Of
human endurance.
j OF President Lincoln, that great and good
man now beyond the reach either of fattery or
5detraction, we can scarce say anything that
has not been already said better than We could
have written. Perhaps no man was ever better
understood by all people than Abraham Lin
scon. There was nothing dark, dubious or
mysterious about him. His actions carried
swith them their own explanations. In proof
Eof this, compare all the remarks that have been
made of him since bis decease, and how strik-
Eipgly alike they all are We find, without
exception, among the characteristics ascribed
ITO him, first and pre- eminent above all, honesty,
sthen an urbouuded benevolence, then the incest
Sense of justice and right. All ascribe to him
sorignaity I of thought, q broad, liberal and
comprehensive intellect, the greatest prudence
gand wisdom in deiberston caution in coming
Ito conclusions, needing all suggestions, whether
zfrom friend or foe, yet, when his convictions
swere clear, firm in action. In him the moral
sand intellectual faculties were so blended and
| harmonious that nothing ran TO extremes. His
Epolicy always seemed to be dictated by the
iplainest rules of common sense. Over all these
thigh moral and intellectual characteristics of
President Lincoln his cheerful geniality of
shumor aud manner diffused perpetual sunshine
sas grateful and gaddening as ever warmed to-
fife the fruits and flowers of earth. Tried as
mo other President ever was tried-assailed
swith calumny, falsehood and invective beyond
jail former example-yet all these never dis
{ sturbed the even serenity OF bis temper. In all,
] bis speeches, proelamatons and writings, no,
Sword or sign can be found OF malice or spite'
sagaiust any human being. In nothing that bel
Fever said or wrote, we believe, can anything of
sthe kind be found. Such are the points of the
scharacter Of this good man, which are repeated
gwith striking similarity in all the eulogies and
znotlces of him we have heard or read. In our
smlGd, this Is evidence that his character is fixed
ssalready, and will not be changed in any future
history of the man, And now let us pause and
scOnsider for a moment the massive grandeur of
ssuch character Oh, what model will it be
sfor the imitation of all future generations
!. And yet this is the man struck down by the
] hand Of an assassin, instigated by the spirit of
Slavery, that source of all our woes
! When, hereafter, the moralist wishes 10
splace in highest contrast virtue, honor, integrity
/ goodness and magnanimity on the one hand
yand vice, depravity, cruelty and devilishness on
sthe other, be will cite as the climax of all
Examples the character of Abraham Lincoln
! in contrast with the assassin and slavery. which
swere the foul means of his death. Though
sdead, be still liveth and shall live forever.
I WHIPPING A MAN.-A dispatch from Gold
! Hill, says the Sacramento Bee, states that a
sman gave shouts of joy 90 the receipt of the
1 Presidents death. The police seized and con
sveyed him to the station house, and crowd
saSsembled and appointed committee, who re
sported that he should receive thirty lashes
splacarding upon his back "a traitor 10 his
Scountry," and TO hand him over TO the Provost
sGuard all of which was done 1t is added
lthat the miserable character of the man
whipped alone saved his neck
I SINGULAR case has Just come TO light in
Boston. One johnson, staff officer in the
United States service, stole $4,000 10 Gov.
sernmeDt bonds and forwarded them to his
mother at South Boston for safe keeping. A