The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-25
Fark Goodwin on the Death of Lincoln.

Fark Goodwin on the Death of Lincoln.
The great captain Of our cause-Ab-
raham Lincoln-smitten by the basest
hand ever appraised against human in
nocence. is gone. gone. gone! He who
had borne the heaviest of the brunt in
our four long years of war. whose pulse
beat livelier, whose eyes danced bright
er than any other, when
The storm drew off
Its scattered thunders grooming around
the hills"
in the supreme hour OF his Joy and
glory was struck down. One who,
great in himself. as well as by position.
has suddenly departed. There is some
thing startling, CHASTITY, awful, in the
manne- of his going off. But the chief
~pofgnancy of u distress is not for the
greatness fallen. but for the goodness
lost. Presidents have died before: dur
ing this bloody war we have lost many
eminent generals-Lyon, Baker, Kear-
ney, Sedgwick. Reno and others: we
have lost lately our finest scholar, pub
llclst, orator. Our hearts still bleed for
the companions, friends, brothers, who
steep the sleep that knows no waking"
out no loss has been comparable to his.
VINO was cur supremest leader-our
safest counSellor-our wisest riend-
tSitNA NNoulu YOU fIlOW .NIldC
lincoln was, look at this vast me-
tropollS, covered with the habiliments
OF woe! Never in human history has
there been so universal. SO spontan-
eous, SO profound an expression of a
nations bereavement.
Yet we sorrow not as those who are
without hope. Our chief is gone. but
our cause remains; dearer to our hearts
eeaus he IS now become the mar
tyr; consecrated by his sacrifice: mora
widely accepted by all parties; and
1raSran and lovely foreYermore in the
memories OF all the good and the great.
or all lands, M for all time. The re-
belllon, which began in the blacklist
treachefy, to be ended in the foulest
assassination; this rebellion, accursed
IN Its motive, which was to. rivet the
Snackles OF slavery on a whole race for
All the future; accused in it's means,
which have been red ruin and the
breaking UP of laws" the overthrow OF
the mlldest and blessedest
and the profuse shedding of brothers.
blood by brothers hands: accursed in
It's accompaniment of violence. cruelty
and barbarism, and is now doubly ac-
cursed in it's final act of cold blooded
murder.
Cold blooded. but impotent, and de-
ieated It's purpose. The frenzied
nand which slew the head of the gov
eminent, in the nae hope of paralyzinx
It's Iunctlons, only drew the hearts OF
the people together more closely to
and sustain its power. All
the north once more, without marty or
division. clenches hands around the
common altar; all the north swears a
more earnest fidelity to freedom. all
the north again presents its breasts as
the living shield and bufwark Of the
nations unity and life. Oh! foolish and
wicked dream, oh! insanity of fanatic
ism, Oh: blindness of black hate-,o
think that this majestic temple OF hn-
man liberty. which is built upon the
clustered columns of free and indie
pendent states, and whose base ia 80
broad as the continent-couid be shak-
en- 70 pieces, by striking off the orna-
ments Of it's capital. No. this nation
iives' not III one man nor 100 men. how
eve apie however endeared to us; but
IN the affections, the virtues. The enacH
gies, and the will of the whole Ameri-
can people.