Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-05-15

uH5 Wultet sou nhuQS, eVlQeQtly unused u
work. and although, utterly. upmoved BY
threats or by hardness. gives indications
ofseusibility to acts and words of kind.
ness. lis . man of more than ordinary
mark. he says that when he fed from
Mr.. Stewards room he knew that he had
failed, and expected to find the ball helow
full of men, 'shmnionedt by the cries o.
murder raised by the colored boy, who had
rushed into the street, which cries he him.
self had distinctly heard. But he was pre-
pared, and determined to cut his way
through them ALL and was surprised to
find himself unopposed. q...I R.
Ralph Waldo Emerson upon PresI
s-Ee dent Lincoln.
The fearful tidings of his death travel
oyer ses,; oyer land, from county TO coun-
try, like the shadow of an uncalculated
eclipse over the planet. Old as
history is, and manifold as are its TRACE.
dies, doubt il any death has caused, so
much pain TO mankind as this has caused.
or will cause, on it's announcement; and
this, not SO much because nations are by
modern arts brought SO closely together, as
because of the mysterious hopes and fears
which, ip the present day, are connected
with ths name and institutions of America.
But that FIRST despair was brief !;
the mau was not go to be nourned. He
was the most active and hopeful of mes |;
and his work hadtnot perished; but accla.
nations of praise for the task he had ac-
complished burst out into song of tri-
umph, which even tears for his death cam
not keep down.
The president stood before us man Of
tbe,people. He was thoroughly American,
had never crossed the sea, had never been
Ia0aSIaa h1, Sr6 rit
dissipation; quite native, aboriginal man,
/ as an acorn from the oak; no aping of for
eigpers, no frivolous accomplishments,
Kentucky born, working on farm, fat
bostmsn, captain in tue Blackhawk war,
| q country lawyer, representative In the
rural legislature of Illinois,-on such mo-
dest foundations theibroAd structure of his
fame was laid. How slowly, and yet by
happily prepared steps, he came to his
place.. = = +, 1t turned out that he
vas 9 great worker; had prodigious faculty
OF performance; worked easily. a good
worker is so rare; everybody has some dis.
4blipg quality. 10 q host of young men
that start together, and promiss so many
brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails
ON trial; one by bad health, one by conceit
or by love of pleasure, or by lethargy, or
by9an hssty temper,-each has some dis.
qualifying fault that throws him ont of the
career But this man was sound to the
core, cheerfal, persistent, all right for la
tor, sud liked nothing so WELL
Id four years,-four years of battle. days.
tGhis endurance, his fertility ofsresouEces,
his maguanimity, were sorely tried and
never found wanting. There, by his cour-
age, his justice, his even temper, his fertile
counsel, his humanity, he stood an heroic
figure in the centre of an heroic epoch
| He is the true history of the American peo-
Pile in his time. Step by step he walked
before them;' slow with their slowness,
QuiokeniDg bis march by theirs; the true
| representative of this continent; an entire
" public man; father of his country, the
pulse of twenty millions throbbipg in his
heart the thought of their minds articula-
ted By. his tongue.
| III am sure if this man had lived in a
period of less facility of printing, he would
have become NEUROLOGICAL iu very few
years, like Esop OF, PiIpay, or one of the
Seven Wise Masters, by his fables and
proverbs. Bot the weight aud penetration
of many passages in his letters, messages,
and speeches, hidden now by the very close.
ness of their application 10 the moment,
are destined hereafter TO q wide fame
What pregnant definitions; what unerriug
common sense; what, foresight and, on
great occasion, what lofty, aud more natu.
ral, what humane toneI His brief speech
at Gettysburg will not easily be surpassed
by words on any recorded occasion. This
and one other American speech, that of
John Brown to the court that tried him,
and q part of Kossuth's speech at Birming-
ham, caua only be compared With each otha
er, and with no fourth
Far happier his fate. than to have lived
to be wished away to have watched the
decay of his own faculties to have seen,-
perhaps, even he,-the proverbisl ingrsti-
tude of statesmen to have seen mean. men
preferred. Had he not lived long enough
to keep the greatest promise that ever man
made to his fellow w-men,-the practical abs
olition of,slsyery r He bad seen Tennes-
see, Missouri and Maryland emanoipate
theft slaves. he had seen Savannah,
Charleston and Richmond surrendered
had seen the main army of the rebellion lay
down its, arms. he bad conquered the
public opinion of Canada, England and
! France. Only Washington can compare
with him in fortune. u
There Ia q serene Providence which rules
the fate of nations, which makes little ac-
count of time, little of fJone, generation or
/ race, makes no account of disasters, con-
ouers aEike by what is called defeat, or by
what is called victory, thrusts aside enemy
and Obstruction; crushes everything inn
/ moral as inhuman, and obtains the ultimate
| triumph Of ths,b best race by1 the sacrifice oi
everything which resists the moral laws OF
the world. 1t makes it's own instruments,
Great es the man for the time, trains him in
poverty, inspires his genius, and arms hin
for his task. It has given every race his
own talent. and ordains that only that race
init n piRfnpE
of ali shall endure e.-Speeeh. at Concord.
TIE BAlLLr1MoRE AND OH1o R. R. CoMPA.
HY.-Amoug the results of returning peace
4 fs the freedom from danger and difficulty
j To nnr chief IhnrnnRhfares along the bord