Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-11
SAD NEWS.

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Minister to England has been a source of
great sorrow to all true patriots, but more
especially to those who fought to save the
Union in the days of its peril, and who
lost their lives in that struggle; they
died, but from their death was born a
new nation. Among those who fought
and died for this country there was one
nearer and still dearer than all others in
the hearts of those who survived that
fratricidal war, and most will think that
this one was Abraham Lincoln. But it
was not he to whom all turn their eyes
and the gratitude of their hearts in these
days when we are united and happy,
with no domestic quarrels and with no
foreign enemies. In the annals of our
country his name is found not, and as it
has been said that the greatest poems
have been unwritten, so it may be said
that the greatest heroes that war has
ever produced have never been in battle,
but have dwelt far from the smoke of the
battle field when the din of war and armed
conflict filled the land. Is it asked,
"Who is he of whom we hear so much,
yet whose very name seems unknown? :?
Tell it us, that we may teach our babes
to lisp it and know its magic power; and,
knowing it, become as great as he whose
name they so long have held in reverence
and in love-" 1t may be that the rose
would smell as sweet under any other
name, but it is not so with the name of
which we speak, for it's a name so sweet
that to utter it is to fill the mouth with
mamma. It's name whose sound is like
the music of the low, soft lutte when it
mingles with the maiden's voice as she
sings in the starlight of soft summers
eve. Can you no longer await the utter
ance of this name, o patient and gentle
reader? Long have you waited, but wait
you little longer, for the hour of your
qualification is fast approaching. You
would know the name of him who died in
youth and beauty that the flag might
float DER freedoms land? You shall,
and that at once :Hthe Tribune.
And why should so prominent place
be given this paper as we have shown
that it is entitled to? Merely because it
is the bravest of the brave, and has done
more fighting and bleeding since the war
than all the Union soldiers did during the
war, and is more outraged because of the
appointment of Mr.. Phelps than; those
who merely lost limbs in that dread
struggle, for the editor of this paper has
lost his head over the war Over this ap-
pointment the Tribune was sick sick nigh
unto the death, because this appointee,
this Phelps, this Minister to the most
royal of royal courts - had not only |
abused Mr.. Lincoln but had insulted the |
region in whic h he himself was born and |
the soldiers who had died and were dying
for the Union" Does this not prove
that the valiant soldier who penned those
lines died for his country, and that from
out the grave he he cries for ven
geance? But the phials of this dead
hero's deadliest wrath have not yet
been emptied upon the head of
this same abuser of Mr.. Lincoln and in
sulter of the soldiers who died for the
Union: owe have not said it before,
but we will now, that the appointment of
such man to any Office in the gift of the
United States is a direct insult to every
soldier who fought in the cause of the
Union." 1t must then follow that those
who are most insulted by this appoint
ment fought most for the cause of the
Union and died oftenest But Mr.. Phelps
is not satisfied to have abused Mr.. Lin
coin in 1864, nor is he content with the
insult which has been offered the dead
and dying soldiers who fought for the
cause of the Union by his appointment
as Minister to England, for now he adds
to the insult which has been offered the ,
nation through him the injury of denying
the authenticity of the speech he is re- .
ported to have made in 1864, in which he !.
IS said to have abused Mr.. Lincoln. At
he conclusion of his denial of this J
speech, he says: "My views were the
Same as those entertained by Mr. Web
'ter, and are TO be found expressed in
various addresses of mine" Can it be
believed that hell could have born such !,
wretch as this denial proves Mr.. :
Phelps to be? And with this de- :
a hnI ~ .,f j
excellent judgment and sound sense :,
is The Nation makes such a comment as y :,
his: cit is doubtful if any person "
capable of intelligent judgment believed -
or moment that he used the language =,
attributed to him about Lincoln. Even =
he newspapers which have been circu-
ating it, and who are in such deep con- :,
ern about the loyalty of everybody who =,
nds favor with the new Administration q;
now as well as anybody that it bears all A.
he marks of gross and palpable forgery" .,
10, all the newspapers which have cir a.
ulated it do not know that it h.
ears all the marks of a gross and -,
alpable forgery, and some will find it of
nd news and think they fought and -
led that rebel brigadiers and Northern =,
busers of Mr.. Lincoln might be elevated -
} positions of honor and represent the -
lost cause" To such as these the ~,
enial of Mr.. Phelps of the authenticity o.
any speech abusing either Mr. Lincoln D,
those who did save the Union will be -.
I'd news. and they will regret the denial