The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-04-26
Rrick POInlcrOy.

This distinguished Democrat and
man, from whom Copperhead party
North gets large share of its gospel,
has just returne ed from the South
where he has been addressing rebels.
lie was not well received by the ar
istocracy of that section and returns
home to engage in his fitting occupa.
ton of shining whatever is great and
good. The following article was
brought forth by proclamation of
Governor Oglesby Of Illinois
asking the people to observe the
anniversary of the death of President
Lincoln:
"The darkest, saddest hour, in
our entire history" All! Oh! Ugh!
Who ever should have thunk it or
imagined it? or had a glimmer of a
conception of such an idea2 And all
because the clownish and uncouth
tyrant, Lincoln. was knocked Off the
national chicken-roost by j. w.
Booth burning q match under his
gaunt beak?
"'rhe whole land moist with tears!"
Bosh! From the hour of his taking
Off obscquies, mourning, professions,
sls,. Tsie Zap and buncombe, under cover
OF which Democrats were murdered,
printing Offices gutted, mobs ram
pant, and the devils in hell held q
holiday to work their diabolical
will on earth.
From town to town was carted the
cold corpus of the Sangamon igno.
ramus, who deserved death on glib.
bet for his foul crimes, months, years
before the moment when Divine Re
tribulion and Omnipotent Justice
launched tue blow, and summoned
the destroyer of the Republic and
foe Of American liberty to stand in
Ills dread presence.
"Overshadowing national grief
poignant sense of bereavement" -
death head in every hear" were
ever such moonshinc and humhng
given to the world before? That
was two years ago, and him of whom
these words were written has rotted
almost unthought Of, except for his
crimes against God aud his country
Remembered oaly as other mon
sters who have preceded him in the
history OF earth, that curses may be
uttered above his grave!
"'Saintly soul martyr President
-in Heavens name, sycophantic
admirers of the sum of all human
vlllainies, forbcar! Let Abraham
rest--give him and his record the
soothing balm OF oblivion-say with
Christian resignation and humilia.
tion-'The Lord gave-the Lord hath
taken away-blessed be His holy
name!"
"If it is necessary TO select from
the calender of defunct apostles OF
crime some one name in whose honor
our Sucker neighbors must fast.
humiliate and pray, allow us to sug-
gcst the natal days of Judas Iscariot,
Caligula, John Brown, or some of the
other thousand and one Radical
SAINTS who have been called home for
the incalculable benefit OF peoples
and the better security of life and
property. But Abraham -pah stir
not up his odious record-he was too
recently stencil in the nostrils OF
the pcople-give him rest-let him
sleep little while, if he can in quiet
so near Democratic Springfield,
which has but recently and.gloliously
repudiated Loyalism of the Lincoln
Rump pattern.
"lf Illinois Democrats fast and
humiliate on the Fourteenth they de.
serve-but pshaw! they are no such
men. They should treat the procla.
nation as one Of protane Dick Ogles
by's heaviest jokes, and have least
of fat things-turkeys, puddings, and
such-moistened. not with tears, but
some of Kentucky's best old rye !
Selah !"