Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-05-04

It struck our noble Lincoln down
Colunlbia's hearts hold DEAR
The nations heart o erflowed with joy
To see the conflict cease,
And grim wars bursting clouds revealed
The angel form of peace.
The Union safe, the slave set free,
BY his kind heart and hand ....
Oh I! why must he, like Moses, die
In view of Canaan's land
We should not question Providence, "
Who wisely rules Ger all, r ... ...i-
And in his tender love doth mark
The tiny sparrow fall; .a
But tremble, traitors, least the wrath
Your murd' rous act hath sowp,
LeaveJustice free from Mercy's prayers,
To deal with you alone
Though tongues inspired would tell our wo,
And tears in ocean roll. h.1. Il Il
Vain would they prove to paint the grief
That wrings the nation rs soul.
We bow in silence to the storm s s...r
By which the love divine,
Doth cleanse and cause Columbia's stars
With tenfold light to shine. ... ....
Rest. Martyr, rest -E.....f..
From the scenes OF death and pain,
Tho murl'r ous hands have stilled thy heart
Thy noble deeds remain. ., ..,fH...s..
Rest, Martyr, rest
From thy weary toll and pain, gi ...t
The nation mourns the loss of thee
Thy noble deeds remain. - a,r.,...:a
After the singing Of the foregoing
piece was concluded, the exercises pro.
ceeded as follows a .A u. ...~e.g %
/. Hymn iii .s ..a.a-.
God moves in mysterious way /, -..,,
His wonders to perform
81 He plants his footsteps in the SEA, iE
And rides upon the storm. a,s s,
Q. Reading the Scriptures, and
Prayer,-By Rev. Mr.. Groat
3. Hymn @ana -0
Our God, our help In ages past,
Our hope for years to come;
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home!
4. Sermon-By Rev. Mr.. Bordwell
from Ecclesiastes, Z: IA
"In the day of prosperity he joyful, but in
the day of adversely, consider: God also hath
set the one over against the other
& &
We are permitted to make the fol.
lowing extracts from
Mr.. BoRDwELL's SERMON.
There are, perhaps, few examples
in all history in which a nation has
been SO suddenly brought down from
the mountain heights of JOY and hope
and exultation, TO the deep valley OF
humiliation and sorrow, as ours has
recently been. But two short weeks
ago, every loyal State in the Union
was ringing from centre to clrcum-
ference with shouts of joy and triumph.
Everywhere the bells pealed forth their
glad sounds and the thunder of cannon
sent the joyful tidings reverberating
over hills and plains. Bonfires and
illu,sinations turned night into day
Everywhere the Stars and Stripes
now more dear ant sacred than ever
before to the hearts OF our pecnie
were flung to the breeze, and as they
hoated in mid air, they seemed to
speak to us the words Of the angelic
chorus that fell upon the ears of the
Judean Shepherds eighteen hundred
years ago: peace on earth, good
will to men," The churches were
thronged with devout worshippers /;
words of gratitude and praise went up
to God, and consecrated walls and
lofty arches rung with loud hallelujahs
and hymns of victory. How sudden
ly was the nations joy turned into
when the glad tumult OF
our rejoicings was hushed into a
dread stiffness by the messages which
went forth from the capital flashing
over the Geographic wires to every
part of the land " President Lincoln
IS no more,-shot through the head By tie
hand of an assassin! :"
shall not attempt to describe the
feeling of utter depression and sor-
row which fell like black pail upon
the corpses Of our dead hopes and
to shroud every object around
us in the emblems Of mourning and
woel A friend, in speaking to me Of
it the night after the intelligence
reached us, described this feeling as
the /" Horrorof great darkness." Per-
haps no words in our language could
better express what we all felt oppres-
sing our hearts, and shrouding our
souls in deepest night than these.
In the first moments, while we were
bowed down and unneryed and mite
overwhelmed by this great consterna-
ton, perhaps the chief thought that
oppressed US was, that such horri.
bic deed should have been committed
in . land upon which civilization and
Christis nifty have shed their light. In
our dismay, we asked ourselves
whether indeed the whole hellisf
brood of barbarous passions that stalk
ed through the world in its dark ages
had returned to plague us ! Whethe
the fiendish passions had in fact oh
tanned q new lease of power and wer'
again to run riot for q time whitening
human hopes, bearing down good. am
establishing evil and setting up tn
reign of hell on earth |!
Another lesson which this mornfu
event is suited to teach US is, the utter
~ detestable character Of that conspi
racy which has been for four years AZ
sailing with satanic energy the ma
TONS life. Slavery, which was TO b
the cornerstone Of the Southern Cor
federacy, the institution for the pei
petuation Of which this war was ina,
gurated, was long ago pronounced b
q great and good man, 1.-THE sum
ell villanies." The words are tn
most apt and significant that coul
possibly have been chosen and "
how few there we're among US VIII