Daily national Republican., 1865-04-20


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'.iSSfvERsARr BATTLE or LEXINGTON, 1865
'-l am the resurrection and tho fife "
Dead silence reigned. The services hat
colnmenced. Eight hundred men aud per
'hhps doroh Of the other sex stood AROUND
the colIini no more, although perhaps thef.
were twenty thousand applicants for tickets
Harrington Is stern and sharp in manner but
perfect In his arrangements Ono hitch a.
in Europe, the Diplomatic corps preceded tho
Chief Justices, AS the Chief Justice on llls
eleath Of Johnson aud Foster would have
been President Mr. Chase claimed for the
bench priority, and think he was right.
What an Rssemblago! There were ut loar
i've hundred present who expect come time u
be President. Ll.ayo sOen many great
pageants in my ~, but none impressed me
liko this. Fifteen years have passed since
| stood In the Egst Room. IL seems mn hun.
|tlred' | have lived 80 fast. Most Of the na-
|tions have lostia king since that day Then
Davis wRs nreseut, and the room was full
|oi embryo rebel leaders. Clay was alive,
and WcjstJ. \
What change between then aud now,
Twenty ml ln-of-war. Now six hundred. Our
debt Atty Aillions Nov four thousand. Then
we were q Rudience-Europe and Asia the
actors. /Now n thousand millions in the
Dress Qrele and the Pit, and We the actors.
|EuroE gave US six lines Of telegruphic news
|wh1A the CunRrder arrived. Now six col.
|Etnns. Then State Rights meant secession.
Now State Rights signifies American Nation
|lnity, The New World was then defendant.
Now plRintitf The venue is changed. Eu.
|ropo then patrOniEed us, We shall now pat.
ronire Europe, Then England got up s6cie.
ties to liberate the Blacks In America. Now
America will do tho same to emancipate the
Whites in England. Then the Democrat,
|party were forcing down tho nations throat
the polluted doctrines of Bright and Cobden,
Hour natural enemics,) Free Trade. Now,
thank God, the National Debt, bu icd On thu
National Faith, guarantees Protection to
American Industry. The lngersols, Woods,
CLAY Deans, McCums, aud Chancey Burrs.
made another great mistake In celebrating
|Jeferson's JiHh-day By recommending ths
Demo"ratic parry 10 stand OM the 6aSs Of Re
|pHdiaiiOR. That Is Inlamy, as State Rights
was DisuniOn aud Free Trade was destrue.
|tion.
All nations had had the diseases Of child.
hood mumps, chicken-pOx, measles, and
whooplng cough; yet they seem surprised 10
see our slight attack Of varioloid. England
paid eight hundred millions sterling at ffty
discount to advertise her miserable little Is
land. Wo have paid no more, and yet are
|alroady better known and more respected
The Eat Room contained more binlns than
In any assembly that ever met on great ooca-
sions. am willing to measure the heads Of
aN -. Ii L Al Al
present, We have more twenty -fou inch
heads than all the world beside Chase Is a
model head but it took Grant TO whip Loo,
But there IL enormous individuality 10 that
square head OF johnson. The brskn TO CON
|triye, the will to execute, l. there. Read
that Inaugural speech again. The one great
idea therein was too great 10 be dwarfed by
style or taste. There was nothing moo
horent in the words he kept repeating" te
NE peopks.' That was uppermost in his
thoughts Don't forget, said the Prime
Minister to me at the Inauguration Ball,
that Andy johnson stood up alone-the only
|oDe Of thirty-two slave State SenatOrs-for
the old fagi and remember how, like hero,
lhe fought for II through Tennessee. Takina
lhis life in his hand, he stood at bay against
the traitors Of his State In the field US we'll ~
I'm the forum.
We used to hear about Northern men with
Southern principles. Andy johnson will be
Ia Southern man with national principles.
think 1t Is about time TO have mOther.lan
Iot our own, America, on tho 18th Of April,
was twenty.one years Of ago Down with the
partisan and up with the statesman That
East Room tableRux should have been photo.
'graphed. have visited the tombs Of the
Caesars, the Guelps, the Dourbons, tho IIaps,
'burgs, the Romanofis, and the Bonapartes.
Mount Vernon was sacred to me; so was
Bethlehom. But there was something inde,
aeribably solemn about the East Room.
sOmsthing grandsr and noblsr than ever be,
fore shrOudsd the remains Of king Or emperor
All felt sf
That tho chief mourner day III
Was the nation whose father was taken away.
Wife, children, aud noighboFs should mourn a
his knell .... N ~.
He was lover and friond Of lbs country as Well;
The stars on our banner grew suddenly dim.
LAt ~ weep in our sadness, batwesp f0r himv-