The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-05-20
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miles below town, is found TO extend CON
both sides Of it,
The gypsum deposits IN The vicinity
Fort Dodge are also discovered to be much
Goze extensive than has been before sup
posed.
By the McGregor Nevs we no.ice kat
horse thieves infest that county.
! A calf jumped into the river 8; Muscn-
tine few days since and swan down
stream three miles before it was over,aken.
The body Of an unknown man having
on black cashmere pants, cashmere vest,
and shirt marked NV. B., No. =" in red
tine last Saturday. The Joar,sat says it
had the appearance OF having been in the
water four OF Eve months.
| 4 grand circular wolf hunt is 20 be had
IN the Southwestern part OF 1'owe.heik
county o. Saturday, May Goth.
| "RETURNES 20 DE SoCF. ~ es,erday
afternoon Eve colored persons here
Jil siS ~ SlL 4-OItt llN w GSs, DCuIAO lOF 81
| Louis by the first boat
You see, sah,' said -Aunty, in reply 10
a question, ''Gis is no place for Southern
bawn cullud pussons. 'T;sn't spring here
till Fourth Of July. Massa I4inkun said
before he died dat dey mustn't hab slaves
any more in Missysippy, and SO we's re-
turnin' souf where de weader's warm. We
can't live here widout freenen."
| Thousands Of liberated slaves now IN
the North will soon follow the example Of
this small party.-D.4buQue Times.
The Dewitt Observer thinks the trni. crop
OF that section entirely destroyed by the
late frosts.
RALPH WALpo EMERSON UPON PREsI-
DENT LINCOLN.-The fearful tidings OF his
death travel over sea, over land. from
country to country, like the shadow OF an
uncalculated eclipse over the planet. :.
Old as history is, and manifold az are its
tragedies, doubt il any death has caused
so much pain to mankind as this has
caused, or will cause on its announcemen;;
and this, not so much because nations are
by modern arts brought 80 closely togeth
er, as because Of the mysterious hopes and
fears which, in the present day, are con-
nected with the name and institutions OF
America. But that first despair
was brief; the man was not so to be MOURN
ed. He was the most active and hopeful
OF men: and his work had not persisted:
4 bat acclamatlons of praise for the task he
had accomplished burst ou: into q song OF
triumph, which even tears for his death
cannot keep down.
The president stood before Us man Of
the people. He was thoroughly American.
had never crossed the sea, had never been
lspoilcd by English insularity, or French
i dissi patton; a quite native aboriginal nan,
as an acorn from the oak no aping OF for
eigners. no frivolous accomplishments,
ken.uckian born, working or a farm, a
war, a country lawyer, representatives IN
J the rural legislature Of Ininois,-on such
T modes: foundations the broad struct ura OF
his fame was laid. How slowly and ye.
by happily prepared steps, he came TO his
place. It turned out that he was a
grea, worker; had prodigious faculty OF
worker is 80 rare: everybody has some lis
) aiding quality. In hos. Of young men
that start together, aud promise SO many
brilliant leaders for the mex. age, each
fails on trial; one by bad health, Que by
conceit or by love of pleasure, or by .eth-
. azgy, or by hasty temper,-eac:. has
out Of the career. But this man was sound
tot the core, cheerful persistent, all right for
. labor, and liked nothing 80 well.
In four years,-four years of battle
. days,-his endurance, his fertility OF re.
sources, his magnanimity, were aorely
his courage, his justice, his even temper,
3 his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood
> an heroic figure in the center of an heroic
{ epoch. He is the true history of the Amer.
? lean people in his time. Step by step he
, walked before them; slow with their slow
ness, luickening his march by theirs, the
true representative OF this continent; an
!. entirely public man: father of his country
9 the pulse Of twenty millions thronhng in
his heart, the thought Of their minds artic-
ula.ed by his tongue.
am sure il this man had lived in pc
Rod OF less facility of printing, be would
have become NEUROLOGICAL in very few
: he Seven Wise Masters, by his fables and
proverbs. But the weight and penetration
q Of many passages ia his letters, messages
= and speeches, hidden now by the very
y closeness Of their application to tho mo
: ment, are destined hereafter to wide
Z fame. What pregnant definitiahs; wha
unerrinS common sense: what foresight
and, on great occasions. what lofty. ane
9 more than national, what humane tone!-
Q His brief speech at Gettysburg will NO
!. easily be surpassed by words on any re-
;. corded occasion. This, aud one othel
3 American speech, that Of John Brown t
t the court that tried him; and a part of koS
@ suth's speech at Birmingham, can only ~
\ compared with each other, and with n,
fourth.
,. Far happier his fate than 10 have lived t
be wished away; to have watched the de
). cay of his own faculties; to have eeeu,--
:. perhaps, even he,-the proverbial ingrati
d tude Of statesmen; to have seen mean mel
preferred. Had he not lived long enoug
to keep the greatest promise that ever maj
made to his fellow-men, the practical ab
z clifton Of slavery He had seen Missouri
Tennessee and Maryland emancipate thei
slaves. He had seen Savannah, Charles
tt ton and Richmond surrendered; had see
70 the main army Of tho rebellion lay dow
u IT, arms. ae nsd CONQUERED sne publ
Only Warrington can. compare with hir
4. in fortune.
There 10 . serene Providence which rule
the fate Of nations, which makes little as
% count of time, little Of one generation Q