The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-05-20
senator sherman on Presidents La.
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Senator Sherman delivered an eloquent
eulogy on President Lincoln in Mansfield,
on Saturday, Nay 9th. We extract two
impressive and powerful paragraphs there
from:
You ask me to pronounce his eulogy.
Fellow-citizens, his eulogy is in the history
Of our time. Poetry will perpetuate it The
songs Of our country will impress it upon
the minds of young and old b1t-more in
peris liable than all-four millions of humSn
beings will transmit to their remotest pos
terity the name of the man who gave them
liberty. may now recall few of the in
cidents of his life, but after we are all
gathered into the ch-ysrd, crowded off
into forgetfulness and oblivion by the gen
GRAFTON now pressing upon our footsteps,
his eulogy will be echoed and re-schoed by
the genius aud learning of untold genera
tions- After all the bitterness OF party
strife shall have sunk into the grave; when
the rebellion will be regarded by all
mankind as the great crime against civili-
zstion, his name will be remembered As the
instrument of Almighty God to lead q
chosen people through the storms and
perils Of expiation for great national sin.
When the links of the great chain OF
events, through which we are passing, win
no longer be obscHred by temporary pas.
sions, mankind will perceive how wonder
fully the character of Abraham Lincoln
was moulded by early trials; by peculiar
traits of head and heart; by 8 mixture Of
gentlsness and tenscity, for the great part
he was TO play in cur National Drama.
Perhaps, then, that which is nov obscure
to us-Why, when he was in view of the
chosen land Of peace, he was suddenly
taken from US by the hand Of violence
will be made plain by the course of events.
Now We can only bow in reyerential
submission TO the Divine Decres, and
| seek from the Lesson of our calamity
some light to guide US in the future
We who survive him have duties to
| perform, which his death makes more i'm
perstiye. The many atrocities evolved by
the war, and crowned by his assassination,
| speak to as trumpet tongued. We cannot,
with just regard for future national secur-
ity, close the last stages of this rebellion
without stamping it with infany. The
| dead bodies of our slaughtered heroes, tAe
walls of widows and the cry of orphans
demand that all these sacrifices shall not
! be made in vain. The burden Of debt
resting upon the labor of our people for q
| generation 10 come, demands seeuriL '
against future rebellions. The pi.eous cry
| of millions of slaves, who never lost an
opportunity to aid US in our need, de,
mand that we fulfill our promise &c
them. Now, mercy is weakness and jus.
tiee is strength. l do not now demand
vengeance over the dead body of our. mur-
dered President but / do demand that al
he has promised shall be made good; that
before amnesty is proclaimed, the rebe
flag and the rebel uniform shall be badge
of disgrace. And here is the croWnine
lesson of the war. All the malignant pas.
sions of the rebel turn upon them and rend
them. They commenced the war to enforce
the doctrine of secession, and now the
States are welded in an indestructlblC
bond They commenced it to perpetuatt
the despotism of slavery, and now theil
slaves are free, and they are disfrsnchised
| Their naughty aristocrscy sneered at thC
early life and homely manners of Abra.
ham Lincoln, and now they deplOre his
death, because he would have been mefci
| ful 70 them.
They mobbed and spit upon Andrew
johnson at Lynchburgh, and now they
must submit to such terms as he grants
them. South Carolina led off in thil
| drama of Death, and she has been visited
by destruction. The lessons taught to the
infamous Booth at the execution of John
| Brown, made him the assassin of the
President and thst crime closed the gate
of mercy to his teachers. Ali their early
victories have only prolonged the war s,
complete their ruin. 30 striking q mo nj
| festatinn of Divine Providence in tt e, sf
fairs of men must excite the serious refec
tions of mankind, and it exslts the hieI
position attained by Mr.. Lincoln that b,
always regarded himself but a. the instru
ment Of Almighty God. May his ache
rest in peace, and the spirit of his coun
ssls yet guide US through the perils of tht
future.