Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-05-04
Hen. John A. Bingham 'en tne
pGurder Of President Linc0sn'

meeting Of ths,peopls Of Cadis, on the 10Th =
inst. and made the following speech: /,
| would prefer to be silent IN the presence $
Of year dead friend and mine, the iriena VI 6
oir common country and our common 7
humanity. Suddenly stricken with sorrow,
great people, covering q continent locking
out upon Europe from their Eastern and
upon Asia from their Western homes, bow
Abraham Lincoln. Of him no formal words
Of eulogy need be spoken; bisf works do
praise him. The people knew and loved'bim.
He was wise. gentle and good; just and
nerciful. He Hepossessed. 10 largest measure,
the spirit Of our Divine Master: il his enemy |
hung.red, be fed him; if he thirsted, he
gave him drink. This man, our President, !
who in all the best Of qualities Of human
nature, was second to none who eyerwore
tbs robes Of civil inagistracy, has fallen by
an assassin's hand, in yeur capital He has
died that his country might live
/ do but speak what all men knew: that
our President was murdered only because
Of his fidelity to duty He was faithful to
duty, that highest word revealed by God TO
man, from the observance Of which comes
person, the joy and beauty aud happiness
of life. 1t was the first duty of Abraham
Lincoln, as Chief Magistrate, made so.by
the election of the people, and by the ex-
press words Of their supreme law, to pre-
! serve, protect and defend the Constitution
,, of thes United States, and to ia IKE care that
: the Laws be faithfully executed. For the
,, performance Of this duty he was bound by
/, his official oath, that oath which, in his
own significant words, was registered in
|. heaven" He kept bis oath ..inviolate. he
!, performed his whole duty. Under God
|. our faithful President, good as he was great,
= did preserve. protect and defend the Con
!, stitution of the United States, the law of oul
% natiena life; without which our American
- - nationa lity can no more live than can th'
y American people live without air, HlstsT!
= will record and perpetuate the fact in all th'
% thereafter. that Abraham Lincoln saved
20 nation life by enforcing nations laws.
u Though his mortal frame has persisted
as a his fame and great and good soul are a
ae deathless as the stars. Thank God tn
iie Republic for which he died still lives. i
10 the presence of this united, victorious, bu
ao sorrew-stricken people, let all his assassin
know how impotent are their malice an
- rage, that though by their unmatched Grim
no they have wounded, deeply wounded til
~ ~ heart of this great people, they have ~
On destroyed and cannot destroy that people
ar, nationality. As well attempt TO quench Il
lth GOLDEN fires Of God s armament natit
,gE true to itself aud just to ALL cannot die Will
i al there be men upon the earth. -,
ed The best and fttest tribute which Il
ms hs people can pay to the memory OF thu
ltn fallen chief, is to read Alright, and follow
req n lesson of his life, fidelity, even unto deaf
ms to the Republic and its just and equal Il
Ins of liberty to all. This uprising OF the p.
anu ple proclaims that it was net iD vain II
siai1 :n our murdered President lived, nor in VI
VIII that he died; that it is not in vain that
one hundred thousand of the neblest and br
iths a est of the land have given up their h'
ocks @ amidst the consuming fires OF battle, Tor
tt;;y lite of the Republic.
nin 1 Surely, ifthose who die tor great cause
dIn, permitted in that nobler and better nj
.ns which they ascend. to keep watch over tf
0ave ave for whom they suffered, it must he to
but msrtyr President and defenders a new
tlon, te know, that by their death the natl!
ruag life is assured, and that inspired by Il
'hae great example, the millions whe sur'
mas them are as one, forever united to defent
anus Our patriot President, though dead j..
~ OF traitors hand, will live again, and be
80, w., ored in all the hereafter. .e.
na.ua sFor raaty sweeps onward wkers today the m
and On morrow, erouehes Judas with the silver il
Id. no While the hooling mob OF yesterday win silent
stinct return,
nat is To CLEAN up the s'aueree a'he'' n'0 i'0''
istitu- urn A. Lo.;,o nah
rty, in aye, on tomerIcw, uGe nSu''nS e. nnr M
af Ss. dents life, and with suppressed breath
h hitter M cruelty him, cruelty him, will, consume
that remorse' IN tllen. aIe ie.n Sm.t ub;ch
with homage TO ms perisnSsa utIa uIe' sr;r;t GA
eighty denied 10 nls ~ pure ~. s.---D .p