The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-04-27

honest sensibility, than is shed by those
Of his loyal fellow citizens who did not
contribute 10 his re election"
To.day's Herald says: " I'D.
"Our institutions arc, fortunately, OF
character not depending on the life Of
any individual for their maintenance or
progress. The progress of the Ameri-
can Government is onward, casting
flowers, as IL passes, upon the grave Of
each new martyr, but never hating in
the march of its divine and irresistible
mission. In Andrew johnson, hence
forward President of the United States,
we have man of similar origin with
Mr.. Lincoln, equally child of the peo-
pie, and equally in sympathy with their
interests. 1t is no longer in the power
Of changing fortune to take away from
Abraham Lincoln, as might have hap.
pened had be lived, one of the most
solid, brilliant and stainless roputa-
tions, Of which, in the worlds annals,
any record can be found. Its only peer
existing iu the memory is that of g co.
Washington" 'r
The Times says: "Public life has a
tendency to chill kindly and generous
affections, and blight the sweet charities
of life, but, as was said of Mr.. Fox, his
heart was os little hardened as if he
had lived and died in farm house.
With charity to all and malice for none,
President Lincoln made his last speech
to the world. Men will re-peruse that
solemn address with ever increasing in
terest and emotion, as if the shadow of
his own tragic fate, and near and unseen
dangers to the country, rested uncon-
sciously on it's words. 1t is such
speech to the world as a Christian
state sman would gladly have his last;
earnest, humane, truly, but not techni.
cally religious, filed with forgiveness
and good will"
Concerning the effect Of Mr.. Lin
coins death, the Times says:
"The peculiar nature of our institu-
tions makes it impossible that any ono
man should be absolutely indispe ensable
TO their preservation and successful
working. If the Emperor Napoleon had
been assassinated, all France would
have been in revolution before twenty.
four hours. President Lincoln's death
sudden and awful as it was, does not 10 .
tcrrupt, for an instant, the grand move
ment of our Republican Government"
The Journal of Commerce says "The
nation lives; the strong compact is vic
torious over rebellion, and it is for US
to sus' ain it now. Let US remember
our duties Mr.. Lincoln is dead. The
President still lives. He needs, and
must have the sustaining power Of the
people. Let US give it to him with
earnestness."
The World adds: ave wait his
course with hope, not unmingled with
solicitude, for in such terrible CON
juncture as the present, nobody can
calculate the consequences Of false
step or a wrong committal.
"His retaining the advisors of the
late President is favorable and prom.
i,ing indication, and it is greatly to be
hoped he will see it is his duty to pur.
sue the healing policy on which his de-
ceased predecessor had entered"
In an editorial on Andrew johnson
the Tribune remarks; "Hld Lincoln
lived, we are confident that no Conred.
crate flag would have been flying in
this country in thirty days time. Now
we can not read the future with any
certainty, but only trust that behind
the clouds are alb the stars of heaven.
president johnson will doubtless
soon issue some sort of manifesto set
> ting forth his views and what terms he
is prepared to offer to the rebels, ant
, what advantages are to accrue to then
from promptly laying down their arms
Meantime we entreat those who arc tho
= intimate friends of our new President
TO insist that he shall not allow his time
> and energies to be consumed by Office
seekers. This hungry clan has almost
worn out Mr.. Linceln. Let them spare
: the new President .i .3 .sara aH
While Gen. Grant was on a train
latelu n pouth T,l hooL nad liz t.,,,o.,..