The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-06-15
KENosHA WISCONSIN, THURSDAY JUNE Is 1865.
light ambition in the hearts of young men,


right ambition in the hearts of young men
in all coming ages. .srt91l a.aag -g' "a Il,
When some one, beginning right where W,
are, rises up to excellence and eminence, W,
are more encouraged by it, than by the great
ness OF thSse WHO began where we never
We're. Here is philosophical principle
and one of great practical value God him
ST has made use Of it in the greatest trans
action in the history of the universe. Il
is much that he has announced himself to us
as merciful being, caring for his. creatures
and taking pleasure in alternating their suf.
ttrings and bestowing favors upon them
But If this were all, we could hardly throw
off the chilling conviction that after all, his
experience could be nothing like ours; aud
there must be distance and a blank be
tween him and u.s. But when the Divine
Being himself comes into this world in our
nature, and minsles with families and talks
with children ami pities hayward but peni-
tent women and weeps with mourners and
groans with mental suffering, we say at
once 'fIhere now is cue who can be touched
with the feeling of our infrmities, ), and our
hearts Immediately fly open for his sympa-
the storms of ennity and persecution, and
passed unstained through polluted world,
we lift up our hearts and take courage, and
are nerved ianeY with the belief that, by
his strength; and aid, we can do the same.
Now Washington presents to us, humanity
dignitied and ennobled, so that we almost
feel that it is not our humanity. MIR. Lin
coin toe presents to us humanity dignified
and ennobled, but also incarnated and
brought down to our own sphere When
we look at the qualities of his character, we
can feel that, excellent as they are, we may
still Claim some kindred with them; aud
hereafter when the young man looks at his
humble and laborious, but honorable and
successful life, his own heart will warm
with the belief that thsrt is path of honor
which he can tread And when too im-
patient ambition shall suggest the employ
,nent OF articles and tricks and question
able devices for the attainment of distinc
ton, the grand example of Mr. Lincoln's
lifelong honesty will be a powerful tails
IN u to check every dishonorable expedient
and to- encourage obedience to motives of
uprightness and integrity. American young
men, 10 all the generations to come, will
be truer and purer and wiser and more pat
slotic, from this new watch word of honor
and goodness-Abraham Lincoln Wash
ington and Lincoln! God has given to
America these two names Each is perfect in
Itself, but to the nation, each lacks Just
what the other furnishes. That Washing.
toms character and example were wanting
IN any thing which the nation needed, we
did not know, until Mr. Lincoln's charac-
ter and examplenboth suggested and sup
piled the deficiency And in both of these
names together our country possesses a
treasure for whose value no other country
OH earth can compete. Other nations are
welcome to glory in their Weliingtons,
their Napoleous, their Esederieks, their
Peters. their Charleses; and to set the type
of their national character by the
moss standard of their cherished
heroesa9 Be it ours to naineo with pride
against them all, our Washington and Lin
ron, and to set up the type of our national
character by the high standard of these
spotless patriots In That heaven has grant
ed to us the inestimable treasure OF those
two names, we will to day rejoice. But we
will reje!ee with trembling; for We relpein-
Der that with all Westinghouse great and
good influence over us, we wickedlyt de-
parted from the way of national upright
ness; and VINO shall assure us that, in spite
the additional weight of Mr. Line6ln's exl
ample we may not again yield to the seduc-
lions of mistaken policy, and again COM.
promise the moral integrity of the nation;
md thus again bring down upon US the
awful desolations Of war? Fasting, humil-
alton and prayer, though they seem strange
y Inconsistent with the general joy OF the
present hour, are nevertheless, strikingly
appropriate to it. God alone can save us
rom the folly of perverting the best of his
blessings to our own shame and ruin.
The death of Mr. Lincoln by no means
involves the death of the cause with which
he was SO gloriously identified. The work
If ending the rebellion goes on. Other
lands are ready to bear aloft the banner of
Union and of Freedom, and the foe is com
)elled to bow to that banner; army after
army capitulates; traitor after traitor is
'rrested.5 Justice is not fallen PROSTATE in
he streets, but sits Enthusiastically upon her
hrone in the high places of the land; and
he guilty conspirators against the life of
he nation stand trembling before her,
waiting her voice of doom. The arch in
tigatot and chief manager of the lrevot has
;ome at length within her mighty grasp,
md come too IN Suct Dt6unej. as strongly
o indicate that the great Being who con
rolls human events aas q very keen sense
# the ludierous! Other conspicuous traitors
ire still at large, and may possibly succeed
n eluding the pursuit of legal Justice upon
arth. But how much are their fugitive
nd guilty lives to be preferred rather than
speedy end of conscious fear and infamy
pon the galIows? TO decide in favor Of
ither would be like choosing between the
ate of Judas and the doom of Cain.
The proper disposal Of the traitors now in
ur hands, is work which concerns not |
uly this nation; it concerns maiikind.-
What does Justice demand? What may
mercy ask? are questions which no one
hould feel competent to answer without
direction and wisdom, from above.
While therefore we rejoice in the arrest |
f the guilty, we may well be anxious lest
ust the right retribution may not be visited
lpon them. No one denies that they de-
erve death in its most ignoniinious form.
Utter vengeance would not be injustice
But we are aware that cases often arise i'll
which merely to avoid injustice, is not all
hat christian duty demands, We recog-
lize the propriety of acting upon the prin-
,iple announced by our great martyr, with
malice towards none" But while we would
lvoid one extreme-that of malice; we
would not swing to the other-that of un-.
Inc leniency. To trea. the greatest of
q
ustice to mankind God is love, and
lis mercy is, in the bible, set forth
IS very conspicuous attribute; but to treat
crimes as if they were not crimes, is not BIS
mode of procedure. Justice, in the divine
government, does not mean lenient indul
geuce, does not mean pity for offend
ers who may have been unfortu-
nate and unsuccessful in working their plans
Of wickedness, does not mean impunity for
crime. Treason against a well ordered