The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-04-20
our mnrtyred President.

WNN AEehanfNNts
On Saturday last IN memory of tho Illus
trious LrNooLS and his tragic death, on mo.
tion Of Mr.. GARFrErn, tho National House
Of Representatives adjourned, The follow.
ing eloquent ronorks % thc distinguished
Representative accompanied his motion:
This day will be memorable ma long rs
this nation viii endure, which God grant
may bp tIl tho last moment OF recorded
time when tho volume of the worlPs his
tory ehall bo sealed up aud placed before
tho Omnipotcnt Judge Tor Ills sentence. On
this day, for all tino 10 come, doubt not,
that the citizens Of this Republic will meet
together. looking into each others faccs
with solemn sadness, ~ they recoleot the
great event Of this day in lS65--an event
unparalleled in the history Of Nations, Ger
tliuly unparalleled IN our own think It
ominently proper, that this Congress
should put IN lis record to-day a resolution
IN memory of that event. Tho war with its
wonderful events has given to history
many distinguished names lie took tho
young mon Of the lind, and made them iutu
horoes, the old mon into patriots aud the
women became ninisteTing angels all over
our lmd. But chief among all, tho great
Developments Of the war, were The charac
ter and the ifo Ol that great man, whose
loss tho nation still deplorcs. lIo is aptly
described ia tho language Of ono Of EaG'
lands great poets as--
o. That diyincly gifted man.
Whose ifc In luw estate b}gan
Upon simple village green
Who breaks his births invidous bar,
Aud grhsps tho skirts Of happy chancu
And brcasts the blows Of circumstance,
AMI grappl Is with his evil STAR
WHO makes by lurre his m,rit known,
And lives to clutch the golden KEYS
To mould n mighty states dccrecs
Aud shnpe the whisper of the throne,
Aud moving up from high to higher
Becomes on fortunes cr|wning slopo
The pillar Of Il peoples hnpo -
The centnr OF II worlds desire.
Such lro and such character will go
down 10 al time as tho great and slcrod
possession OF the American people. But
there is moro than tho more character OF
any ono man in that great struggle through
which we have passed. There were two
scenes in the drama OF tho rebelion--one
was the military scene, with all itS do ,th,
with all its eullrriugs siShs and tears.
That scene was closing one year ago to
pigh, just ns the curtain was lifting on
tlIc new mud lhal al7Eccne--the restoration
of peace, liberty and order--just as the
curtain was rising to show new characters,
the evil spirit of robaIljOu and treason
could not resist its desire to strike ono
blow, and to cause tho chief ChI0oler in
tho scene then closing TO perish 10y the
hand of an assassin. 1t was not the hand
of one man that killed. President Lincoln
il was tho embodied spirit OF treason aud
slavery, concentrated into fearful hate, that
struck him down in that supreme hour of
the nations Joy. There arc times in the
history of men and nations when they seem
to stand SO closely by the veil which shuts
o It mortas from Immortality, TIM, eternity
and man from Cod that they can almost
hoar and lool the pulSations of tho heart of
God. Such a time have we paSsod through
When two hundred aud fifty thousand
patriotic spirits broke through the folds Of
that veil aud went up into tho presence Of
God, and when at list its parting folds al
United tho President to go with the dead
heroes of tho Republic, the Nation felt in
decd, that it could hear the whisper of
Goa coming down among tho chillren Of
mon. kuooling, ut that troubled hour when
Joy and sadness were so closely com
mingled tho people listened to tho voice
of their God aud mado n solemn covenant
with Him and with each othGr, that this
Nation should bo redeemed, all its glories
restored, and that OH tho ruins of slavery
and treason. tho temples of freedom and
Justice should DO built and should survive
forever, Ii remains for us, Mr. Speaker,
consecrated 10y that great event and undor
tho covenant with God, TO keep that faith
and go on in tho good work until it shall
bo completed, In following tho lead OF
that great man aud rovorently following
tho lead of God, LIT MS remember that he
has sounded forth the trumpet which shall
never call retreat lie is sitting out the
hearts of mon before His Judgment Seat.
BE swift my soul to answer Him, be jubi-
liant my feet, for God is marching OH"