The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-05-11


the lance in rest none braver ever fol.
lowed the crescent or the cross; or
fought with Napoleon, or Wellington,
or Washington. Yet the Commander
in-Chief of the Union Army and Navy
was worthy of the men-6lling for four
years the foremost and most perilous
post unfaltering. t ,--
Tried by good fortune, he saw the
soldiers of the West recover the great
valley, and bring back to the Union the
Father of Waters, and all his beautiful
children. He saw the legions Of Lee
hurled from the heights of Gettysburg.
He saw the flag of the free rise on
Lookout Mountain, and spread from
river to sea, and rest over Sumter. He
saw the Star Spangled Banner, bright
eued by the blaze of battle, bloom over
Richmond, and he saw Lee surrender.
Yet, he remained wise aud modest, Civ.
ing all the glory to God and our army
and navy.
Tried by civil affairs, which would
have taxed the powers aud tested the
virtue of Jefferson, Hamilton and
Washington, he administered them 80
wisely and we'll that after three years
no man was found to take his place.
He was reelected, and the harvest of
success came in so grandly that he
might have said; "Now, Lord, lettest
thou thy servant depart in peace, for
mine eyes have seen thy salvation"
Yet he was free from weakness or van.
ity.
Thus did he exhibit on occasion, in
due proportion and harmonious action,
those cardinal virtues; the trinity of true
greatness wisdom aud good
ness, goodness to love the right, wisdom
to know the right and courage to do
the right. Tried by these tests and the
touch .stonO of success, he was The great.
est of living men.
But why multiply words of his great
ness? We read it in the Nations eyes.
What a scene do we witness Some of
US remember when on the 18th day of
FEBRUARY, 1861, four years and two
? months before his death, the President
was here on his way to Washington and
spoke in the State House. Then this
self-made western man was untried, and
hiSfrieuds, and he himselfquestioned his
capacity to fill the responsible position
to which he was chosen. He spoke
with misgivings, put placing his reli-
ance on Providence, went forward reluc-
tantly to the Chair, aud now, after four
short years, he retnrns, borne on the
bosoms of millions of men, his way
watered with tears and strewed with
, flowers. ...
| He stood on the summit, his brow
bathed in the beams of the rising sun
of Peace, singing in his heart the angel
ic song of "Glory to God in the high
est; peace on earth good will to man"
with malice to none, with charity
for all" he had forgiven the poepel of
the South, aud might have forgotten
their leaders-coveriug with the broad
mantle of his charity their multitude of
sins. ..... .a-.
e But he is slain-sl by slavery:
! That 6end iucarnate did the deed. Beat.
en- in battle, the leaders sought to save
slavery by assassination. This madness
passages their destruction. .-.-.,
Abraham Lincoln was the personi aca-
@ ton of Mercy. Andrew johnson is
the personifcation of Justice.
i They have murdered Mercy, aud JUS
t tice rules alone-and the people, with
one voice, pray to Heaven that justice
e may be done. The mere momentum o.
% our victorious armies will crush ever
rebel In arms, and then may our eye
d behold the majesty of the law. They
n have appealed to the sword; if the,
were tried by the laws Of war. thei
d barbarous crimes against humauit,
l. would doom them to death. -Ha
l The blood of thousa uds Of murders
of prisoners cries to heaven. The shade
el of sixty.two thousand starved soldier
y, rise up in judgment against them. Th
IN body of the murdered President con
r dem ms them. Some deprecate vengeAnct
D. There is no room for vengeance her,
in Long before justice can have her pei
n feet work, the material will be exhauste
in aud the record closed.
g. Some wonder why the South kille
ne her best friend Abraham Lincoln wa
all the true friend of the people. Of th
N, South; for he was their friend as Jesr
lie is the friend of sinners-ready to ga,
r when they repent. He was not Il
an frieNd of frebelliOn, of trOaso70 of slavI
'er ry-he was their bOldest and strOnEel
an foe, aud therefore they slOW him but /