The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-02-23
an SeYcmuriam,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE MARTYR
PRESIDENT.
GRAFTON BY HON. GEO. BANCROFT.
Delivered i'm the National HALL of tho
House of Representatives, at tho
City of washington, Monday,
February 12, 1850.
COP Ix HISTORY.

GOD IL HISTORY.
Senator'S, Representatives Of Americd;
That God rules in the affairs of men is as
certain as any truth of physical science.
On the great moving power which is from
the begin ming, hangs the worll of the seuses
and the world of thought and action,
Eternal wisdom marshals the great process
sion of the nations, working in patent con.
tinuity through the ages, never halted and
never abrupt, encompassing all events in
its oversight, aud ever efiecting its will,
though mortals may slumber III ola.hy or
oppose with madness. Kings are lifted up
or thrown down, nations come and so, re-
putlics flourish and W thcr, dynast les pass
away like tale that is toid hut nothing is
by chance, though men in their ignorance
of causes may think So The deeds of
time arc governed, as well as judged, by
the DEGREES of eternity. The caprice Of
feeting existences bends to the inmcvablc
omnipotence which plants it's foot on all
the centuries, and has neither change of
purpose nor repose. Sometimes, like a
mes elgcr through the thick darkness of
night, it steps along mysterious ways; but
when the hour strikes for people, or for
mankind to pass to new form of being,
unseen hands draw the bolt from the gate
of futurity; and all sutduing influence pre-
pares the minds of men for the coming
revolutions; those who plan resistance find
themselves in conflict with the will of
Providence rather than with human devices;
and all hearts and all understandings, most
of all, the opinions and influences of the
unwilling, are wonderfully attracted and
compelled to bear forward the change
which becomes more an obedience to the
law of universal nature than submission to
the arbitrament OF men. .a
GROWTH OF THE AMERICAN RErUBLIC.
In tue fullness of time a republic rose mp
in the wilderness of America. Thousands
OF years had passed away before this child
of the ages could be born. From whatever
there was of good in the systems of former
centuries she drew her nourishment; the
wrecks of the past were her warnings.
With the deepest sentiment of faith fixed
in her inmost nature she disentlralled re-
lgion from bondage to temporal powers
that her worship might bc wsrship only in
sprit and III truth. The wisdom which
had passed from India through Greece, with
what Greece had added of her own, the
jurisprudence Of Rome, the medieval mu'
inequalities, the Tcutonic method of repre-
sentation, the political experience of Epg-
land, the beniguant wisdom OF the expos.
itors of the law of nature ard of nations in
France and Holland, al shed on her their
selectest influence She washed the gold
of political wisdom from the sands where
ever ii was found she cleft it from the
rocks; she CLEANED it among ruins. Out of
all the experience of past human life, she
compiled perennial political philosophy,
the primordinal prime pals OF national ethics.
The wise men OF Europe sought the best
government in n mixture OF monarchy,
aristocracy aud demQcracyi and. Amerlca
went behind these names TO extract rom
them the vital clements OF social forms, and
blend them harmonously in the free com
monwcalth, which comes nearest 10 the
illustration of the natural equality Of all men
She entrusted the guard anshp of estab.
listed rights to law; the movements of re-
form TO the spirit of the people, and drew
her force from the happy reconciliation OF
both.
TE9RiTIRIAL EXTENT OF THE REPUBLIC
Republics had heretofore been limited
to SMALL cantons, or cities and their depend
eucicS; America, doing that Of which the
like asl not before been known on the
earth, or believed hy kings aud statesmen
to be possible, extended her reputlic
across a continent Uudet her auspices the
vine Of liberty took deep root and filled the
laud; the hills were covered with its shadow
it's boughs were like the goodly cetlars
and reached unto both oceans. The fame
of this only daughter Of freedom went out
inio all the auds of the earth; from her the
hHman race drew hope.
PROPHECIES Oh rHECoNsEQUENCEs or SLAVERY
Neither hereditary monarchy nor hered-
itary aristoeracy planted itself on our soil
Tie only hereditary condition tlat hsteued
itself upon us was servitude. Nature
works in sincerity, and is ever true to its
law. The bee hives honey, the viper dis,
tils poison the vine stores It's juices, anc
so do the poppy and the upas. la ike
manner, every thought aud every action
rh,ens its seed, each in its kind. In the
individual man, and still more in a naiion,
Just idea gives life, and progress and
glory, false conception portends disaster,
shame and death. A hundred and twenty
years ago. a West Jersey Quaker -wroic:
This trade OF importing slaves Is dark
glooniness hanging over the land. The
consequences win be grievous to posterity.
At the North the growth of slavery was
arrested by natural causesi IN the region
nearest the tropics il throve ranklly, ana
worked itself into the organism OF rising
States. Virginia stood between the two
with soil. and climate, ahd resources de
manJing free labor, and yet capable OF the
profitable employment OF the slave. she