The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-05-19
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Meetings for the Expression OF Feel.
Il ings ON the Assasslhat ton.
NEW York, May JO.-The Asia has arrived
at Halifax, with latest advices via Queenstown.
Addresses Of coincidence to the American
people have passed the lower House Of the Au.
strian Roichsrath unanimously. @ n
forwarded addresses to the Protestant churches
of Paris, which performed . fanera service
Napoleon has left Paris for Algeria.
A vote of censure on the Spanish Cabinet,
for the late military conflict in Madrid, was lost
by large majority. at q --9t !
bishops are to return, and the Pope will imme-
diately ill the vacant See. .s.,@ E,u@.
Brazilian mails have reached Lisbon, bringing
Rio Janeiro dates to April 8. Montevideo banks
are authorized to resume cash payments. A
large force Of Paraguayans threaten to invade
the Argentine Republic in order to attack Bra
iii and Buenos Ayres. Hostilities are expected.
29th of April, an immense public meeting con-
vened under the auspices of the Emancipation
Society, in st. James Hall, to express their
feelings of grief and horror at the assassination
of President Lincoln. and sympathy with the
people and government of the United States,
and Mrs. Lincoln, Mr.. Seward and family.
The galleries of the Hall were draped In
black, and were crowded by persons who mani
tested not merely their admiration of the charac-
ter ard capacity of the late President, and sin
cere sympathy with the people of the United
States in the loss sustained, but their approval
of the great cause Mr.. Lincoln represented
The platform contained an array of parlia-
vooA Oiff
Of the metropolis Many ladies were present,
q majority Of whom were in mourning.
Various resolutions were moved, not merely
with unanimity, but with intense feeling rarely
seen at public meetings The chair was occu-
pied by William Evans, President of the Eman-
cpation Society. ''-' -.'.-' 80 - 30
The chairman was supported by twenty in
fluential Members of the Parliament and
large array of distinguished presidents repre-.
sentiDg every section of the community. Let
tiers of sympathy were received from Sir ChaS.
Lyell, Lord Houlton and others. Il3 -1at
Mr.. Forster moved that this meeting desires
to give utterance to the feelings Of grief and
ton of Mr.. Lincoln and the numerous attack
on Mr.. Seward, and to convey to Mrs. Lincoln
and the United States Government and the
people an expression of its profound sympathy
and heartfelt coincidence. Dir. Forster said
this was the time when the tie Of blood bind.
ing Americans and Englishmen was truly
felt; A thrill Of grief and Indignation
and breadth of Europe, fully possessed the
heart of every Englishman as though some
painful calamity had befallen himself. (Cheers.)
This meeting would send by the ship which
left their shores that night its sympathy with
the widows and orphans and country who had
not lost their faith for the future He was con.
fident in the belief tina. they had SO learned
lessons of common history that they would
prove what strength free aud Christian people
have to bear up against every blow like this,
though it be such q BLOW as had rarely ever
fallen upon any commonwealth. He expressed
his conviction that President johnson would
continue President Lincoln's work OF restoring
peace to the country and insuring freedom to
all who dwell in its tGreat applause,
P. A. Taylor, member of Parliament, second
ed the resolution, and expressed great sym.
patty with the American nation which had lost
a worthy successor of Washington. Lincoln's
great task had been fulfilled. He had crushed
the rebellion Of Shareholders. Time the de-
stroyer, had not drawn one leaf from the chap
let of his glory. He had no fears that the gov
ernment Of the United States would fall into
the career Of reyengeful retribution. He asked
the audience to remember that for years por-
tons Of the press and people had heaped every
epithet OF abuse upon Lincoln, and were now
trying to do the came thing by johnson:
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the new government would be confined in the
same direction as Lincolns. and that itwould
soon effect the complete restoration of the
Union with the completes emancipation of the
negro. s oval Jsfs -f,s -..as..., rra6. a.
Lincoln died for that pridciple, but his.death
was not symbol of its death, but Of it's glori-
GUS triumph. CHEERS Mr.. Leathern M. P.
Brother-in law of Mr.. Bright censured in the
jpeariy tribute paid TO the character, and ser
vices of President Lincoln. They had seen
Amsrica pass triumphantly through gigantic
perils, and they confidently expected that she
would come out with equal fortitude, and equal
dignity from what was perhaps the lsst ana
greatest of her triamphs. NJ. stansreia ~ "a:
P. moved the next resolution. VIZ Inat this
meeting desires to expires it's entire confidence
in the determination, and power OF the people,
and Government OF the United States. 70 carry
out to the fullest extent, the policy OF PRESIDENT
Lncoln's bis Presidential era IN the embodi-
ment and establishment OF Hee instiutions
throughout the whole American hepuoIc.
b Mr.. Stansfield said they had met not ouly to
give an expression of their horror at deed so
foul that history could produce no parallel,
/ but to show sympathy for cause which begins
nv being honorable and great to her righteous
ness and which by the acts and by the life and
death of this martyred President but now be-
comes sacred In their eyes. (Cheers.1 The
South had been fighting for the avowed, and
petuating human slavery, and it attempted to
form its subsistence On q national crime. and
had but deserved the fate of those who set
themselves against the laws Of God and man.
The North fought for o common country,
which they would share, but which they would
not allow to De torn asunder Step by step the
North rose TO the height Of the great and holy
argument on which their cause was founded.
Each day, each defeat seemed but to make
their resolve frmer and higher and their pol
icy purer. 1t ar ythipg could strengthen the
States in their trial it would be the deep felt,
spontaneous and universal sympathy which
was now travelling TO them from Europe.
A resolution Of more political character
was offered and led 70 confusion, amidst
which the meeting adjourned. Q. 9relI