Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-03-08
The Inaugural Address.

bance to it since the days that the Apos-
tie Paul wrote TO the Collosians, Philip
plans and Thessalonians, we consider it
too sacred an instrument for our comments
at the present time.
Mr.. Lincoln's inaugural Address was
as follows:
Fellow Countrymen: At this second
appearing to take the oath of the Presi-
dental office there is less occasion for an
extended address than there was at first.
Then statement of a course to be pur-
sued seemed very fitting and proper.
Now. at the expiration Of four years,
during which public declarations have
been constantly called forth OH every
point and phase of the great contest which
still absorbs the attention and engrosses
the energies Of the nation, little that is
new could be presented.
1.-The progress of our armies, upon
which all else chiefly depends, is as well
known to the public as to myself, and it
is, trust, reasonably satisfactory and
encouraging to all. With high hope for
the future, no prediction i'll regard to it
is yentured.
son the occasion corresponding to
this, four years ago, all thoughts were
anxlousiy directed to an impending civil
war. All dreaded it all sought 10 avoid
it.
W hle the Inaugural Address was be-
ing delivered from this place, devoted
altogether to saving the Union without
seeking 10 destroy it without war; seek
ING 10 dissolve the Union and divide the
effects by negotiation Both parties dep
recs,ted the war, bat one OF ;hem would
make war rather than let the nation sur
vive, and the other would accept war
rather than let ii perish, aud the war
came.
One eighth of the whole population
were colored slaves, not distributed zen
orally over the Union, but localized in the
southern part of it. these slaves cuusti-
tuted peculiar and powerful interest.
All knew that this interest was some how
the c,.use OF the war. To strengthen,
perpettate and extend this interest was
the object for which the insurgents would
rend the Union by war, while the gov
ernment claimed no right to do more
! than restrict the territorial enlargement
Of it.
Neither party expected for the war the
magnitude or the duration which il has
already attained. Neither anticipated
that the cause OF the conflict might cease,
! OF even before ihe conflict itself should
cease. Each looked for an easier tri-
umph. and u result less fundamental and
astounding.
Both read the same bible and pray to
the same God, and each invokcs His aid
against the other. 1t may seem strange
that =ny men should dare to ask a Just
Gods assistance in wringing their bread
from the sweat OF other mems faces, but
let Us Judge not, that we may not be
Judged. The prayers of both should not
be answered. That of neither has been
answered fully. The Almighty has his
! own purposes. Woe unto the world be-
cause OF Offences. toI it must needs be
That offences come, but woe To the man
/ by whom the Otienses comeih If we
shall suppose that American slavery is
one OF these oitenscs which, in the Pr,yi-
aence OF God, must needs come, but
which having continued through His ap-
| pointed time, lie now wills to remove.
and that lie gives to both North and
fouth this terrible war as the woe due to
those by whom the offence came.
! S!.;'ll we discern there is any depart
ure iro&l those Divine attributes which
the believers in living GoI ALWAYS as
crlbe to! FondIy do we hope, fcrvently
do we pray, that this scourge of war may
speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills
that 1t continue until all the wealth piled
oy the 3ondman's two hundred and fittv
thousand years OF unrequitted toll shall
oe sunk, and until every drop of blood
drawn with the lash shall be paid by an
other drawn with the sword, as was said
,iifee thousand years ago, SO, still it must
oe s'ld, the judgements of the Lord are
true and righteous altogether.
"lth malice toward no one, with
char'ty icr all, with firmness in the right,
lei US strive on to finish the work we are
i'' 10 oihd up the nations wound, to care
ior MN who shall have borne tie battle
anu ior hls widows and orphans. to do all
WITCH may achieve and cherish a Just
anu 'asiins peace among ourselves and
with all nations.
LIE ILLUSTRATED PuRENoLOGICl jour
Nal Tor March, contains Gov Fenton of
New ork Edward Everett, the Orator;
MAJOR Davidson, the Patriot Aristotle, the