The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-14
CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, April II.
The Senate was not in session to-day.
AuuSs Oa resamtntuvas

WASHINGTON, April II.
The Senate was not in session to-day.
AUuss OI Representatives
In the House. on motion of NJ UarHeld tbe
reading of yesteI days proceedings was Dispensed
with, and Mr. CARTE d then satd-
Otshe 10 make motion that the House do now
adjourn. lhls dav will be memorable as long as
this nation sDall enCUIe, which, God grant. may be
till that last moment Oi recorded time Yhen the Vol
umc OF the Nolld's history shall be sealed up and
paced before the Juoge Tor His sentence On rhIs
day iOI all time to come doubt not the citizens of
TINS repuDhC VIII meet together, looking into oacn
others faces with solemn sadness as they reoa
great event ofthls oaY in 1S65an event araeled
the history OF nations, certainly unparalleled IN
1 think it eminenty proper that this Congress
should put on It's record to day resolution IN me-
mory Of that event 1he war WITH ITS wondertnl
events gave to history many distinguished ma mes;
IL took the oung men Of tie land and made them
heroes; 1t made the old men patriots; and women
became the mlnsterlng angels al over the republic;
but cmet among all the great developments OF tho
war were the aracter and lie OF that great man
whose loss the nation stl dep ores. He is aptv dc.
scrt ed IN the language OF one OF Englands poets as
that
-Diviney gi ted man
Whose lie IN low estate began,
And on simple village green
Who breaks birth s invIdiOus bar
Az Az es srasgs the 1,. skirts s o. harp, chance
And graDples with his evil star,
whomakes by force his merit known,
0 Sf to SaSty SgfSS as sGdSs1 SeofeSs Ssy
And shape the whisper of the throne.
md moving up IRON high TO higher
Becomes in for unes crowning slope
m Ihe pillar pillar OF a peoples hone
Such lie and such character Will 20 Gown TO
all TINE as the great and sacred possession Of the
American people.
But there more than the character OF any one
man IN that great struggle through which we have
passed. There We're two scenes in the drama of the
Rebellion One was the military scene with all its
death, with all Its suferngs losses and tears-that
scene was cosing one year ago this night. just as
the curtain was lifting on the new aud final scene,
the restoration of peace and liberty and Orderjust
as the curtain was rising to show the new charac-
ters the ey spirit OF rebellion and treason could not
resist Its desire to strike plow 10 cause the
Chief character in the scene tnen closing perish
BY the hand OF assassnat on.
1t was not the hand OF one man that killed Presi-
dent LIncons it was the embodied spirit of treason
and slavery concentrated into fearful hate tnat
struck hlm down IN that supreme power of the
pauOn's joy.
There are times in the history of men and Of
nations when they seem to stand 80 closely by the
veil which snuts out mor,a.s from mortality, time
from eternity, and man IRON 1Od, that they can
almost hear the beatings and feel the pulsa tons of
the heart of God. such time have we passed
through when TWO hundred and fifty thousand
patriotic sDnits broke trough the folds OF that thin
when at last iIs parting folds admitted the Presd en
10 go with the dead heroes OF the repu0nc.
The nation felt indeed that 1t could hear the whis
peIs OF 1od coming down among the children OF
men. kneeIing at that troubled hour, when joy
and sadness were SO strangely eommngled the
American people listened to the of their God
and made a sole mn covenant with Him and with
each other that this nation should be redeemed with
alts glories restored, and that on The ruins Of sa
very and treason the temues OF freedom and
justice and peace should be built and should sur
Vive forever. 1t remains for us, Mr. Speaker, con-
secrated ty that great event and under covenant
with 0od to keep that faith and to 90 on IN the
good work until 1T shall be completed Following
the lead of that great man, and reverentlY follow
ing the lead OF God, let us remember that
He has sounded forth the trumpet which shall never
call retreat;
He is sitting out the hearts of men before his udg
mHnt seat
Be swift, my SOU, to ansW er him,
Bejubilaut my teet,
For God is marching on"
The motion was agreed to- and the House there.
uDOn adjourned,