The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1894-09-28

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that when in 1859 john Brown,
&c. with but fourteen men stood
rapping at the sepulcher of slay.
cry and when he knocked, all
slavedom trembled from It's cen.
ter to its circumference" They
captured his men, shot and hung
them. They took the old man
himself, and put a rope around
his neck and a cap over his head
and stood by and hung him,
within a year and four months OF
that time 100000 men were sing
ing
"old John Browns body lies moulder.
ing in the tomb,
But his soul goes marching on.
Soon they were Joined by 500,
600 more, and the valleys of the
South and the hills and pine
woods of Georgia echoed and re.
echoed the song.
The world pronounced him a
culprlt; history made him a hero.
His name will be honored in all
the world when those of men
who executed him are forgotten
in iufamy and shame.
But what a curious thing it
was. 1t is bewildering how these
things come to pass. Men may
propose but the God of our faith.
ers will dispose. We tried our
best to put down the rebellion
without doing justice. We met
disaster after disaster, and rebel
lion after rebellion, but at last
when grand old Abraham Lin
coin, touched by the almighty
love of God, wrote Liberty on
our banner. from that hour we
went to conquering and the God
of Israel was with us-with us in
a cloud by day and a pillar OF
fire by night, and soon the stars
of our banner went higher and
higher and mingled with the
stars Of the skies, and to-day,
thank God, that banner touches
the clouds and sweeps the earth
! think that the greatest char
acter developed by the civiliza.
ton of the nineteenth century is
that of Abraham Lincoln. Itell
you that a government that pro.
duces a character like that is
worth something. He was moi
born to greatness. but thank God.
in this country, the door is open
to the higher things-is open to
all, but you have to work for
them.
i see in an humble cabin in his
Kentucky home, with a pure
Christian mother. no school.
books but he has in his posses.
sion New Testament. reading
it by the light of a pine knot ; ]
see him in the woods; see him
out in the wilderness; see him
then as a clerk in a country
store; 1 see hin. as a country sur
veyor; see him as a lawyer;
see him as a man, and with what
a grand future. They called
him to the presidency of the
United States; put him in the
White House, the war came and
his great heart was pierced with
anguish of soul. But he stood
up and faced the storm, the
lightning's flash and the thunder's
roll, and the earthquake shook
the mountain, but Abraham Lin
coin calmly said If God be with
us, who can stand against US p
/ / see him now as he commenced
away down at the lowest rung OF
the ladder, climbing slowly but
steadily ascending higher and
higher, rung by rung, until at
last from the topmost round he
was called to the sky. / tell you
to-day that Abraham Lincoln
stands in the presence of God
and His angels holding in his
hands the broken shackles Of
four millions of Gods poor. God
had been for more than centu-
nv writing strange characters or
the walls. of the temples of slav'
cry, and now he called upon
Abraham Lincoln to be the Daniel
who should interpret it.
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