New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-01

Al mlunlgnL came the cry
ITO meet thy God prepare %
He woke, and caught his captains eye;
Then, strong in faith and prayer,
His spirit with bound,
Left its encumbering clay;
Ills tent, at sunrise, on the ground
A darkened ruin lay.
The pains of death are past,
Labor and conflict cease;
and LIES fierce warfare closed atlast,
His sOulis found in peace.
The memory of Abraham Lincoln
deserves every tribute of honor and re-
spect which we or posterity can pay. The
most popular chief magistrate of the nation,
he glOried in being an American citizen,
and now America glOries in claiming such
a man. Possessed of a strong sense of
right, high moral courage, and indomitable
will, he was generous as he was just, benev-
olent as he was brave, frank as he was
firm, as tender of heart as he was tenacious
ofhonor, as faithful to the people as he was
cOn6ding in them, as humble as he was
highly honored, as honest as he was oapa-
BILE, as irreproschable as he was successful.
The same true man everywhere, and
alike practical and efficient whether in the
forest or the forum; as a husbandman in the
field, soldier in camp, or a representative
in congress; in every position from a
country postofice to the presidential chair.
from the log hut to the Write house, in the
sabbath school or the cabinet, in polite,
affectionate attentions to a poor child, or
in well-merited official hauteur to a foreign
nation. His private and public life were
consistent, Such were his virtues as citi-
zen, and his ability as a chief magistrate,
that he is alike hozored and lamented as
man and president.
We hesitate not to place him beside the
father of his country, and claim for him
equal dignity, honor, and glory. Like
Washington he was celebrated for those
public virtues and Christian principles
which distinguished him from most other
great men of bis time. Like him he led the
people to freedom and to victory, and thus
accomplished the work given him to do.
Like him he was returned to the chair of
state for a second term. Like him he,was and
is beloved in his own native land, and re-
vered by the nations abroad. Washington
was the founder OF republic Lincoln the
emancipator of race. Washington re-
deemed us from tyraRts abroad, Lincoln
delivered us frOm traitors at home. Wash
ington gave us civil liberty, Lincoln pre-
served the Union. Washington, the father
Of his country Lincoln, the savior of the
nation. Washington liberated us, Jackson
defended us, but Lincoln died for us ! And
we hail in him at once the patriot, the hero,
and the martyr.
Thrice in the last 600 years has the op-
pressOr's power been signally broken-Onee
in England and twice in America. The
English barOns triumphed in 1915, our
fathers triumphei in 1881, but
HU>IANTY triumphed in 1868. King
John, King George, and King Cotton have
each in their turn been humbled. En-
gland boasts her magma charta, America
her declaration Of independence, but uni
versal freedom more proudly glOries in
her edict Of emancipation, and crowns our
martyred president her royal champion.
England's great charter gave her only a
constitutional monarchy; our glorious
declaration only gave us slave-holding
liberty, and freedom-hating aristocracy;
but Lincoln's immortal edict gave to our
nation "a new birth,n to freedom its
largest domain, and 10 the world a model
republic. And now, and for the first time.
we nail Ihe United States truly triumphant,
Independent, and FREE.
Mr. Lincoln's career from first to last
was a great success, and we can now see
how his varied earlier life prepared him
for the marvellous work of his latest years,
and which he SO well and faithfully per-
formed.
Another great "Cincinnatus of the
West" Truly and emphatically, he was
practical fdInsT in any climate, whether
in physical or moral agriculture whether
he titled the fertile fields Of his own prairie
home at the North, or broke up the fallow
grounds Of aristocracy, ignorance, and in
dolence, and soWed broadcast the seeds of
liberty, education, and free labor at the
South. A safe pilot, whether the craft were
hatboat on the "Father of Waters"
floating beneath q calm Southern sky or
that proudest vessel that plows the ocean
Of time-the American Ship of State"-in
the widest storm. A good commander,
whether as captain of single company in
an Indian campaign, or ehieftain of ma
tion's army and navy in the greatest war
the world has known. A successful
engineer, whether as boy he surveyed dark,
Western wilds or as man ne strengthened
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