The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-02-06
Was it Ever Paralelied t?

Was it Ever Paraleiied?
The year that we are DOW passing through
this eighteen hundred and sizty-fye,
stands out in grand, bold relief from all
its predecessors, a star of the first magni-
tude in times constellation.
It saw the end of the imperious slave
holders rebellion.
1t saw the end of American Slavery
It's earliest flowers covered the bier of
nation murdered hero.
! The sun and showers of its youth month
freshened the green grass over the mar
tyr's grave.
/ Its springtime witnessed the greatest
funeral pageant that ever honered the
dead or graced the living.
1t saw nation, thirty millions strong
drop scalding tears of sorrow on the tomb
of their slain chief.
! L saw procession of grief.struck
mourners, two thousand miles in length.
1t saw the great dead carried to his
home BY nation in whose funeral train
cities were pail bearers, military chieftains
the corpse watchers, high civic function.
aries guardians of his bier, great imperial
states Chief mourners, millions of uncov-
cred heads bowed IN fearful grief, as the
mighty cortege wound its solemn march
under the sunlight of day aud the torch
light of night, from the scere of active
duty, to the quiet rest of an honest man s
grave. ..
1t saw those millions of down. .trodden
race lifted to the dignities and response.
bilities of humanity.
1t saw those millions bowed down, and
their heads bent with grief, sorroWing as
children feel at a fathers grave.
It saw villages clothed in mourning.
towns draped in deaths ensignia, great
cities suspended their traffic. the busy
marts of commerce hushed with awe, while
the silence of loving death covered an
Empire-ft expressions of grief for a
martyr.
1t saw the dwellings ofthe rich covered
with costly badges of woe, and the homes
of the poor draped in the more simple
and eloqent symbols of peoples sorrow.
It heard holy ministers of Christ's
Gospel speak words of peace for the mur-
dered dead, and OF comforting coincidence
for the living.
1t heard the heart-prayers of sincere
millions for the rest of the departed, aud
that his death might not leave the Nation
IN the utter darkness of desolatiou.
1t heard nation of mourners chant
solemn dirges in accord with organ peals
and the thunder of artillery, Of the passing
body of the nations martyr.
/ If respectful, manifest sorrow for the
dead be any proof of civilization, then did
Sixty-ive witness greater and more per-
feet civilization than any other child of
Father Time
/ As the days of Sixty I've rolled into
weeks aud the weeks wheeled into mouths
the meridian of the year saw the people
of other lands meet IN sorrow for the
stricken Union, heard their grief utter
/ ance, saw their amounted rulers bow their
heads in awe of sorroHing sympathy,
and for once child of Time saw
"a aUorld an tears"
Sixty-fye saw in the mourned one the
Incarnation of freedom loving, liberty
praeticing people, the impersonatIon of
the capabilities and possibilities of insti-
tutions based on the voice Of man, echo
ing the voice of God in the recognition of
human and manly dnties,the emancipator
of race, and the guarantor of their lib
critics.
1t saw in the "deep damnation of tax.
ing of" their possibilities and capabilities
| OF the babarie system which the great
martyr had, with pen mightier than the
cenquerers sword, eondemneded to utter
destruction.
1t saw the Horld.ou conflict between
liberty and slavrey end in favor of liberty
regulated by law, of justice founded on
humanity, Of civilization based on right
Was it ever paralelIed
In the game of life we should watch for