Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-19
NOTES IN DIXIE.
XXI,
RALEIGH, N. c.,
Anril 17fb 1874

thursday last. Inc 3tn OhI0 cavalry
was the first troops that showed the Stars
and Stripes on the streets of this city
and to hoist the old flag from the State
House, says the Raleigh Progress. And
there it proudly waves In this morning.
cleaning sunlight, kissed by the blossom
scented air, hallowed by thousand glo.
rious memories,
Washed IN the blood Of the brave and the blooming
SnRtched from the affairs Of insolent foes;
Burning with star fires, but never consuming,
Flash its broad ribands of lily and rose.''
And yet, immortal as it is, new glory
seems to await it that shall mark even
this as one of its most splendid triumph
days. Before sunset thirty Thousand
rebels are expected to lay down their
arms and pay 1t homage. AT ten o'clock
last night a messenger arrived within our
lines bringing Gen. j JohnRon's agreement
to proposal for conference upon the
subject OF surrender ol his (JOhnson's)
forces. This news easily leaked through
the meshes of official red tape, and created
the widest enthusiasts throughout the
army. Until long after midnight the air
was made vocal with the strains of mar
tial music and the enthusiastic cheers of
the troops. Next to the fall of Rich
mond and the surrender of Lees forces,
no event has ever occasioned such re-
JOlclng IN THIS army.
y
But alas! alasI for all earthly joy and
all mere human triumphsi Almost
while the above lines were being penned,
the sad intelligence reached this brigade
that President Lincoln was, during the
night of the 18th inst, assassinated at a
theatre in Washington. And is it indeed
true that our brave, noble, heroic Presi-
dent is no more? Murdered by an aSSas-
sin!-ean it be? Murdered in the very
capital of the nation, and in the flush of
the glorious triumph of that cause of
which he has so long been the embodi-
ment and the faithful, able Champion
Abraham Lincoln, the soldiers friend
the peoples representative, the nation S
hope, stricken down in the zenith of his
fame and usefulness BY the traitorous
hand of a southern viliainl Oh! it is too
much for loyal hearts to bear or tongue
to utter 1t is wrong which calls to
heaven for vengeance, and whico
''Stirs fever in the blood Of age
And makes the infants lows strong as st ,e -
It is an injustice and an outrage which
brands a whitening curse, not only upon
the treacherOus perpetratOr, but upon
the worse than barbarous people and in
stltutlons of which he is the exponent
Virginia avenged, forsoothl The curse
OF Cain is upon her heRceforth and for
ever. And not upon her alone, but upon
all who sympathIze with and exult in
her eowardly, dastardly vengeance.
The announcement of the death of the
President created the profoundest grief
throughout this army. Never before was
1t realized how much affection the army
entertained for its honest and patriotic
commander-in-ehief. Upon the repeated
assurance that he had really fallen Vic-
tim to cowardly southern hate,
''soarred and war-worn soldiers, like girls,
Flushed through their tan,
And down the thousand wrinkles OF the battles
A thousand tear-drops ran.''
And then there was low, ominous muir
muir of vengeance. Hearts unWont to be
stirred, glowed with the red heat of pas
sion, and flashed baleful fire through eyes
that had witnessed the carnage of a score
of BATTLES for the Union. Let not
j ohnson surrender-let US have another
eampalgn-let US avenge our murdered
President, was the almost universal SEN
tlment. "Oh, for another march through
y erth and South Carolina, and through
Georgia and Alabama: One more chance
and We'H G2gihtIGte the vile rebel crew.
and scatter fire and sword and sweeping
devastation throughout the length and
breadth of the dark lurking places of
am confident that in thus giving Ian
guage to the natural impulses of my own
heart, L but express the almost universal
sentiment of this army. All, let southern
traitors beware how they provoke the ar
dor of northern blood. Though it boasts
no chIvalrous tincture and bears in its
warm current the generous flow of human
yet, when stirred by gigantic
wrongs, it glows with fiery spirit, quick,
and destructive as the oak
rending lightning.
Abraham Lincoln is not dead. The
stilletto failed to accomplish
It's purpose. 1t might hurt, but it could
not destroy him whose name and fame
are as immortal as the principles for
which he lived and died He still lives
He lives in the hearts of thousands of
soldiers who long since learned to love
him and TO call him, with unfeigned af-
lection, their Father Abraham. y He i
ives in the memories of all who admire |
honesty and firmness of purpose, and |
clear, strong and vigorous intellect He |
ives IN the hearts of all who love liberty. |
Justice and law. He lives in the bright |
EST and most glorious pages of the histo- |
~ of this nation. He lives the defender |
1f free government, and the foremost |
champion of human rights He lives |
ihe shining exponent of republican insti- |
iutions, the glorious, self-made pioneer of
l new age and destiny for mankind. He |
ives the beautiful and marvellous illus |
ration of the justice and righteousness
oR that free constitution which opens the /
way for honest, manly merit to attain |
sven from the humblest walks of life the |
oftiest stations known among men.
In Abraham Lincoln, the South has /
killed her best and truest friend. HUI
name, honest, manly, and enlightened, he |
vas the man above all others best adapt
sd to reconcile the southern people to
'he authority and power of the central
Magnanimous to fault,
ne has ever, throughout his official ca
,eer, exhibited the kindliest spirit toward
hose who were his most bitter and un-
foes. Though maligned by
southern blackguards, misrepresente by
northern doughfaces, sneered at by the
proud men-stealers and their sympathi
.ers, scoffed by the haters of human
abused by all enemies Of
rec institutions, yet he never seemed to
permit any feeling of political persecu-
ion or personal revenge to control in the
east his official conduct. None know
low to appreciate this better than the
who Of all others best under
stand how bitter and unoharitable has
been the enmity of those who have en-
1eavored to make the President the
,hief object of political hate and preiu-
lice, and the excuse for armed treason
md rebellion.
In the army, President Lincoln has
been not only honored and admired, but |
beloved DurinO thraa avaars and bnIPl