The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-08-19

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lin had only been out of office very
short time, and Andy Johnson in his
place, until Halstead's scheme was
carried out, and Lincoln was muir
dered. Mrs. Surratt was hung for
the part she was supposed to have
taken in the murder Of Lincoln. Could
not stronger case be made against
Halstead?
I here give the last public docu-
ment ever written by Lineoln-his in
augural address, delivered March 4,
1865, only a few weeks before his
martyrdom. Compare it with the
brutal letter of Halstead-the man
who now is leading the "Republican
editors" DIN.
"FELLow CoUNTRYMEN - At this
second appearing to take the oath of
the Presidential office, there is less oc-
casion for an extended address than
there was at first. Then a statement,
somewhat in detail, of a course to be
pursued, seemed fitting and proper.
''Now, at the expiration of four
years, during which public declara-
tions have been called forth on every
point and phase Of the great contest
which still absorbs the attention and
engrosses the energies Of the Nation,
little that is new could be presented.
1.-THE progress Of our arms, upon
which all else chiefly depends, is as
we'll known to the public as to myself,
and it is, | trust, reas onably satisfac-
tory and encouraging to all. With
high hopes for the future, no predic-
ton in regard to it is ventured. On
the occasion corresponding to this
four years ago all thoughts were anx-
iously directed to an impending civil
war; all dreaded it; all sought to
avoid it. While the inaugural address
was being delivered from this place,
devoted altogether to saving the Un-
ion without war, insurgents were in
the city seeking to destroy it-with-
out war seeking to dissolve the Union
and divide the effects by negotiation.
Both parties deprecated war, but one
of them would make war rather than
let the nation survive, and the other
would accept war rather than let it
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"One-eighth Of the whole popula.
ton were colored slaves, not distrib-
uted generally over the Union, but To-
called in the southern part Of it.
These slaves constituted a peculiar
and powerful interest. All knew that
this interest was somehow the cause
the war To strengthen, perpetuate
and extend this interest was the OBJ
iect for which the insurgents would
rend the Union by the war, while the
claimed no right to do
more than restrict the territorial en-
largement Of it. Neither party ex-
pected for the war the magnitude or
the duration which it has already at
tanned.
Neither anticipated that the cause
of the conflict might cease, even be-
fore the conflict itself might cease.
Each looked for an easier triumph,
and a result less fundamental and as
founding. Both read the same Bible
and pray to the same God, and each
invokes His aid against the other.
1T may seem strange that any men
should dare to ask a just Gods assist
ance in wringing their bread from the
sweat Of other mems faces, but let us
Judge not lest we be Judged. The
prayers Of both should not be answer
ed. That of neither has been an
swered fully.
''The Almighty has His own pur-
poses. Woe unto the world be-
cause of its offenses, for it must
needs be that offenses come; but woe
unto the man by whom the offense
cometh. If we shall suppose that
American slavery is one Of these Of
fenses which, in the Providence of
God, must needs come, but which,
having continued through His ap-
pointed time, He now wills to remove,