Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-04-25
The Hyena OF Democracy on the Assas-
stnattOn of Lincoln.


sination of Lincoln.
1t is only necessary TO say that the fol- !
lowing is ffOm the Lacrosse Democrat, /
whose editor stands high in the DEM |
ocratic party, was engaged by the DEM |
ocracy 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 audi
ences of the unreconstructed. Doubtless
what he herein audaciously expressed is
secretly approved by many of the oppo-
sition partizan press. Gov. Oglesby's
proclamation for the observation OF the
anniversary of the assassination of MIR.
Lincoln is made the next for this TRADE:
S"The darkest, sadest hour In our Ell tire
historyW All! oh! Ugh! Who ever
should have thunk it? or imagined it?
or had II glilnmer of conception OF such
an idea? And all because the clowhish
and uncOuth tyrant Lincoln, wa knock
ed off the national chicken-roOst by j.
w. Booth burning q match under his
gaunt beak!
"'The whole land moist with tears!,
Bosh From the hour of his taking off
the obsequies, mourning, procession were
heartless stage displays, mere clap-trap
and buncombe. under cover of which
Democrats were murdered, printing oili-
ccs gutted, mobs rampant, and the devils
in hell given holiday to work their dia-
bolical will on earth.
| "From town to town was carted the
old corpus of the Sangamon ignoramus,
who deserved death on a gibbet for his
foul crimes, months, years, before the
moment when divine retributiOn and
omnipotent justice launched the blow,
and summond the destroyer of the Re-
public and foe of American liberty to
Stand in His dread presence.
"'Overshadowing national grief,
poignant sense of bereavement, death s
hand in every heart were ever such
moonshine and humbug given to the
world before? That was two years ago,
and him of whom these words were writ
ten has rotted almost unthought of, ex-
cept for his crimes against God and his
country-remembered only as other mon-
sters who have preceded him in the his
tory of earth, that curses may be uttered
above his grave.
"'Saintly soul, martyr President, in
J heavens name, sycOphantic admirer OF
the sum of all human villainies forbear
I Let Abraham rest-give him and his
record the soothing balm of oblivion
say with Christian resignation and hu.
initiation, THE Lord gave, the Lord
hath taken away; blessed be his holy
name!'
i "If it is necessary to select from the
calender of defunct apostles of crime
9 some one name in whose honor ou1
Sucker neighbor must fast, humiiiatt
n and pray allow us to suggest the fata
: day of Judas IscariOt, Caligula, JOIN
Brown, or some of the other thousant
and one Radical saints who have beel
called home for the incalculable benefi
f of peoples and the better security of lit'
q and property. But Abraham-pah! sti
9 not up his odious record-he was to-
i recently stencil in the nostrils of tn
r people~give him rest-let him sleep
! little while, if he can, in quiet, SO nea
G Democratic Springfield, which has bu
e recently and gloriously repudiated 10y
e alism of the Lincoln rump pattern.
I "If Illinois Democrats fast and humili
q ate on the 18th, they deserve-but pshaw
: they are no such men. They shoui'
t treat the proclamation as one of protan'
$ Dick Oglesby's heaviest jokes, and hav
n feast of fat things-turkeys, puddings
e and such-moistened, not with tears, bu
2 someof Kentucky's best old rye! Gelah! !!