The Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Ind.) 18??-1920, 1870-07-21
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CASTELAR, on LINCOLN.

'"hiti'b ~ tise ltlnaIke I1 tli> eio-
quent Republican, which We reported
n few days ago:
81 wish 10 present YOU another ex-
ample OF a decided purpose 10 accom-
pli~h gradual abolition. which wa-
forced IL conclude by Immediate abo-
lition. | refer To- the example Of
America. The
Puriians are the ratriarchs Of liberty;
they opened new world OH the earth;
they created new society. Yet.
when England tried 10 sulduo them
and they conquered, the republic tri-
umphed. and Slavery remained.
Washington could only emaDclpate
his slaves. franklin said that the
Nirginians could not invoke the name
Of God, retaining Slavery. Jay said
that all the prayers America sent up
TO Heaven for the preservation OF lib-
erty, while Slavery continued, wer.
mere blasphemies. Mason mourned
over the payment his descendants
must make for this great crime of
their fathers. Jefferson traced the
line where the black wave of Slavery
should be stayed.
Nevertheless, slavery increased con-
tinually. l beg that you will pause "A
moment 10 consider the man who
cl-ansed this terrible stain which OBJ
scured the stars of the American BAN
ner. | beg that you will pause mo-
ment, for his immortal name has here
been invoked for the perpetuation of
slavery. All. the past century has
not, the century 10 come will not have
"A figure so grand, because as evil dis
appears, so disappears heroism also.
1 have often contemplated and de-
scribed his life. Born in n cabin Of
Kentucky, of parents who could hard
~ read; born new Moses in the soli-
tude of the desert, where are forged
all great anu obstinate thoughts, mo-
like the desert, and like fbe
desert, sublime; growing up among
those primeval forests, which with
their fragrance, send cloud OF in
cense, and, with their murmurs, n
cloud OF prayers TO heaven; a boat
man at eight years in the impetuous
current of the Ohio, and at seventeen
in the vast and tranquil waters of the
Mississippi; later, a woodman, with
axe and arm feeling the immemoriaf
trees IN open way TO unexplored re-
gions for his tribe Of wondering work
ers; reading no other book than the
Bible, the book of great sorrows and
great hopes, dictated often by prophets
to the sound of fetters they dragged
through Nineveh and Babylon; a
child OF Nature, in a word, by one or
those miracles only comprehensive
among free people, he fought for the
country, and was raised by his fellow
citizens TO the Congress at Washington
and by the nation 10 the Presidency
Of the Republic; and when the evil
grew more virulent, when those States
were dissolved, when the Shareholders
uttered the war cry and the slaves
heir groans of despair-the woodcut-
.er, the boatmen, the son of the great
West, the descendant of Quakers,
humble before his conscience, greatest
# the great before history, ascends the
Capitol, the greatest moral hight Of
,ur time, and strong and serene with
lis conscience and his thought: before
lim a veteran army, hostile Europe
behind him, England favoring the
south, France encouraging reaction
n Mexico, in his hands the ri,en
he arms two millions Of men,
gathers n half million horses, sends
ais artillery I 200 miles i'm n week
rom the banks Of the Potomac to the
shores of Tennessee; fights more than
,ix hundred battles; renews before
the deeds OF Alexander, Of
Cesar; and, after having emancipated
!, ,O00. 900 slaves, that nothing might
be wanting, lie dies in the very mo-
nent OF vietory-like Christ, like
socrates. like all redcemers, at the
-oot of bis work. His work. Sublime
Over which humanity
hall eternally shed its tears, and God
ais benedictions. lGreat applause.l
But Lincoln, you will tell me, at
gradual emancipation. This
; true; | never evade the truth. But
he privileged classes shut their eyes
md opposed il, as they shut their eyes
acre aud oppose every profound and
-adical reform. And immediate abo-
ition came. When man of the
wisdom and political prudence of
Abraham Lincoln appealed TO SUI
1reme measures, IL vas because lie
was convinced that all hopr of COM
promise was gone, that rrai''nl sicrs
ire impracticable i'm reforms demand
ID by justice and humanity. Since
hen. the nited Siates. having turned
lor slaves into men, have devoted
themselves 70 converting thesc men
nto citizens.
And to-day, those beings who were
ormerly not even men, are fTeer than
he first OF the sons OF Europe. Those
nen who could not learn 10 rend. be-
ause the southern people murdered
my one who would dare 10 give them
book, have to-day innumerable
chooIs. Those men who We're Ike
,easts of burden, wretched as the rep
lies that crawled among tie cotton
nd the cane, are free men, are Ameri-
an citizens; they sit in the Congiess
md the Senate Of Washington. The
-nited States have refused 10 recog-
l;ze a. members OF the Federation,