The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-25

Democracy ON the Assassination OF
Lincoln.
1t Is only necessary to say that the
following is from the Lacrosse Demo-
crut, whose editor stands high in the
Democratic party, was engaged by the
Democracy of Indiana last year to
stump that State, and has since visited
the South with no other purpose than
to revile the Northern people before
applauding audiences of the unrecon-
structed. Doubtless what he herein
uudaciously expressed is secretly ap-
proved by many of the opposition par
tisan press. Gov. Oglesby's proclama-
tion for the observation OF the anni-
versary of the assassination of MIR. Lin
coin is made the text for this TRADE:
The darkest, saddest hour in our
entire historyu All! Oh! Ugh! Who
ever should have thunk it? or imagined
il? or had Il glimmer of a conception of
such idea? And all because the clown
ish and uncOuth tyrant, Lincoln, was
knocked Off the national chicken
roost by ]. w. Booth burning a match
under his gaunt beak!
1.-The whole land moist with tears y
BOsh From the hour of his taking off,
his obsequies, mourning, professions
were heartless stage displays, mere
clap-trap and bunCOmbe, under cover
of which Democrats were murdered,
printing Offices Quilted, rnobs rampant
and the devils in hell given a holiday to
work their diabOlical will on earth.
"FrOm town to town was carted the
cold CORPUS of the SangamOn ignOra-
mus, who deserved death on gibbet
for his foul crimes, months, years, be-
fore the moment when divine retribu-
ton and omnipotent justice launched
the blow, and summoned the destroyer
of the Republic and foe of American
liberty to stand in His dread presence.
"'Overshndowing national grief,'
deaths hand in every heart,' were
ever such moOnshine and humbug
given &c the world before? That was
two years ago, aud him of whom these
words were written has rotted almost
unthought OF, except for his crimes
against God and his country-remem-
bered only as other monsters who have
preceded him in the history OF earth.
that curses may be uttered above his
grave.
SANITY soul,' martyr President
in heavens name, sycOphantic ad-
mirer OF the sum of all human william
les, forbear! Let Abraham reSt-give
him and his record the soothing balm
of obliviou-say with Christian resig-
nation aud humiliation, 'The Lord
gave, the Lord hath taken away; bless
ed be His holy namev
"Ifit is necessary to select from the
calendar of defunct apostles of crime
some one name in whose honor our
Sucker neighbors must fast, huniliate
and pray, allow us to suggest the natal
days of Judas Iscariot, Calignia, John
Brown, or some ofthe other thousand
and one Radical saints who have been
called home for the incalculable bene-
fit OF peoples and the better security of
life and property. But Abraham-Pah!
stir not up his OdiOus recOrd-be was
too recently stencil in the nostrils of
the peOple-give him rest-let him sleep
y little while, il he can in quiet so near
Democratic Springfield, which has but
recently and glOriously repudiated
loyallsm OF the Lincoln kump pattern.
III Illinois Democrats fast and hu-
initiate on the l4th, they deserye--but
pshaw! they are no such men, They
should treat the proclamation as one OF
protane Dick Oglesby's heaviest Jokes,
and have a feast of fat tthings-turkeys.
puddings and suCh-moistened, not
with tears, but some of Kentucky's
best old rye! Selah!'