Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-04-20
Denth OF Abraham Lincoln Meet
ing in Ludlow.


LUDLow, April Is, 1865,
E9itoy Rptioad HTdM Upon the re \
ception OF the astounding news OF theI
death Of Abraham Lincoln, tits needless
to say that the community was horri
ined, The pallor Of death oyerspreadE
many faces. 1t seemed as if almost
every one had lost a dearest friend,
An impromptu meeting Of our citi-
zeus at the Town Hall organized byI
choosing Sewall Fullam, ESQ., president,
land a. F. Sherman secretary.
Appropriate remarks were made byI
the chair. when Rev. W. S. Balch read
the following resolutions
Rcsolped, That, overwhelmed by the
sudden and sad intelligence that good
land great man, Abraham Lincoln, Pres
3ident Of the United States, has fallen, in
! the midst of his triumphs, by the hand
I of cowardly assassin, we have met to
Amingle our sympathies with the loyal
people of the nation, and to renew, in
3the presence of death, our fidelity to the
principles Of liberty, justice and human
City, he has so nobly defended.
Resolved, That language is inadequate
Ito express the horror and adherence we
ateel for the plotters, abettors, executors
baud apOlogists Of treason, which was
conceived in sin shaped in iniquity, and
shas now eliminated in the most dark and
sdamnable crime known to God or man.
{ Rcsolred That in this most dastardly
sact Of assassination, we have com.
aplete illustration of the superior civil
3izatiOn of Southern chivalry" as well as
athe d" barbarism of slavery" as portrayed
sby one of New England's greatest ora
storS and most devoted statesmen.
4 Resdvcea, That the enormity of this
scrme is rendered doubly enormous, from
Athe fact that it was perpetrated against
,Sa Pre- ident whose Chiefest error, in the
AOpinion Of many loyal men, was his
atoo great leniency toward conquered
srebels and their sympathizers.
y Resolred That we pledge anew to those
ain authority, our most hearty Co opera
StiOn, and our unyielding determination
4tO assist in every way where our servi
aces or our property can avail in the eX.
#tnguishment Of trea son. and the crush
@ing out of traitors, assassins and theil
AcOnfreTes, at home and abroad, that or
Hder, law, liberty and peace may prevail
son earth.
a Resolred, That we behold in this las
sldark act, in this tragedy OF blood, The
S5natural sequence Of slavocracy and this
8horrid murder is in perfect keeping with
ssthe deadly attack ON an unarmed Sena
sEtor before the war, and the wholesale
" Nslaughter Of our heroic brethren by star
ssvatiOn in southern prisons.
II Rcsolrcd That in the midst Of thes
,darkest scenes of barbarism, we hav
#unabated confidence in the protection o
4 Almighty God, whose right arm ha
,Mthus far led us on, and as the blood o
AmartyrS was the seed OF the church, 81
aAthe blood of this good and great man
s 5miDgled with that Of hundreds Of thous
ssands of our fellow men, who have beel
q gisacriflced upon the altar Of Liberty
s4Shall nOurish the sacred institutions 0
Sour foretathers and give them perman
gent and universal triumph in our land
ii Resolced That we recommend that tn
sspulpits of the several churches be ap
Il appropriately draped in mourning, ant
#lthat our citizens wear the usual badg
lot mourning upon the left arm on al
II public occasions for thirty days. as
81 token OF a nations grief.
The chair then offered the following
Resolped, That in the diabolical, bruta
aand tragic murder of Abraham Lincoln
ss1late President of the United States, trea
ison has exhibited its most hellish venom
s&tyranny its most malignant disposition
Saand cowardice it's most revolving mean
mess.
a Rcsoired, That the perpetrators. inst
sgators and justifiers of this internal deco
lSsare justly amenable to, and shall receiv
Hthe united and unmitigated curse of thi
nation, and of every friend of huma
Eliberty upon the face of the whole eartf
suntil time shall be no more.
IS ReSolced, That in this horrid catastrC
SAphe, our country and the cause of rs
Mtional human liberty have sustained a
3irreparable loss and that too, at a tin
assSwhen the eminent ability, firmness an
;a aforbearance of our lamented Chief Mas
giStrate were most needed.
81 Reso7red, That we will make no con
s9promise with traitors, assassins, tyrant
g@or murderers; and while the assassin
agger and pistol are in their hands,
aoehooVes every lover of human liberty I
be watchtul and valiant, until the wild,
esworld shall be delivered from their III
4hallowed presence. and they be hunte
Is from the abodes of man.
81 The most feeling, as well as patriot
remarks, were made by Rev. VIM.
81 Balch, Rev. R. B. Snowden, Rev. Il
MPearson, Hon. F G. Robbins, II. W. Albe
q Esq., and others, fully sustaining Il
s. spirit Of these resolutions when. une