The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-04-21
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Saint Paul, Friday, April 81, 1855.

Saint Paul, Friday, April 81, 1866.
The National acknowledgements
h4 .yav Lincoln NO More. nj, f-.u,t
Like clap of thunder from clear sky,
burst Saturday morning upon this COM
munity the intelligence that ABRAHAM
LINCOLN had been assassinated.l Every
man stopped, staggered, and turned pale,
as though some overwhelming personal
calamity had suddenly overtaken him in
the full food tide Of his life and hope.
Language failed; and mems tongues for
sock their accustomed Office. For time
the eyes of people seemed to search anx-
iously around, as though to assure their
possessors that they were not in the midst
Of some horrid nightmare. But alas !!
with the intelligence of the assassination
OF President LINCOLN, came also that Of
the assassination Of Secretary SEWARD
soon to be confirmed by the positive an
nouncement that both Of these great men
were no more.
President LINCOLN is dead, and a nation
toeeps. His voice is forever hushed, but
the lamentations of thirty millions of sor-
rowing people, are heard. Seldom has the
grief of q people for the death of their
ruler been more sincere; never, probably,
more universal.
Whatever differences of opinions may
have obtained as to the policy pursued by
Mr.. LINCOLN; whatever errors may have
characterized his administration of the
government all must have recognized,
now in this hour of our triumph and of
the overthrow of the embattled hosts of
the rebellion, his peculiar fitness and quail
ifications for the final work of the pacif-
cation of our distracted and bleeding coun-
try.
a Having been reelected to his Office by
q most decided and general expression Of
popular will, enjoying, without doubt, the
favor and confidence of the nation at
large to an extent and in degree pos
sessed by no other living man, having in
his behalf the prodigious advantages and
commanding influences which the prestige
of success never fails to afford, possessed
Of kindly heart, magnanimous nature
and an upright purpose, and having ac-
quired an experience during four years Of
the most gigantic and terrific civil war the
world has ever seen, equal to more than
q quarter Of century of ordinary pub
lie life, having the undivided support
and the earnest sympathies of his
constitutional advisers, of Congress,
and of the Generals and army in the field,
his power as well as his opportunity for
good now, in this closing hour of our ma
tiona life-struggle, in harmonizing the
conflicting elements, in soothing contend
ing passions, in suppressing radicalism and
fanaticism both North and South, in pour
ing everywhere oil upon the troubled wa
ters Of our political existence, and in
cementing together in a more perfect
brotherhood and welding into more COM
plete and powerful nationality our s0hole
people, North and South, East and West,
could scarcely be over-estimated; and
hence the just expectations of the country
were proportionately high and confident.
o Without doubt, in all this broad land,
there lives not the man who, all things
considered, can, in the estimation and con-
fdence of the great body Of the American
people, fill to-day the place Of ABRAHAM
LINCOLN. 't."
Nevertheless, the place that knew him
knows him no more. Suddenly, in
twinkling, without warning, amid the loud
and universal acclamations of rejoicing
and triumphant people, by the stealthy
hand OF an ignoble assassin, the inevitable
summons from the Ruler of rulers comes,
and our ruler fain must obey.
And as though this did not sufficiently
fill our measure of national sorrow and
calamity, at the same hour and in the
same way, Mr.. LINooLNs chief counsellor,
WILLIAM d. SEWARD, is also taken from
us.
Assuredly the ways of Providence are
inscrutable, and past finding out.
We were vain, boastful, and self.conf-
dent people. The hand of God was laid
upon US, and we were paralyzed by civil
war. Apparently just about to succeed 10
throwing off this terrible paralysis and in
putting on new, stronger, more vigorous
and healthful national life, after passing
through the lowest valley OF national hu-
initiation and dependency, we are all of a
sudden, while rejoicing in our success and