Glacier County chief., 1940-04-12

/ business except that which was strictly
| necessary was suspended. PfoutS sent
word around that there would be a
public meeting later in the afternoon,
and at $3.50 the miners assembled In
Wallace street A committee was APP
pointed whose business it was TO erect
a platform for the men who were eX-
peCted TO speak. This was rapidly done:
BY this time most OF Virginia City had
collect ed-minerS. a few Indians, Chi
neSe, and the very few women. Ihey
were quiet, all realizing the serious
ness of the occasion. A few drunken
men became bolSterous. but the SOL
emnity OF their companions presently
Quoted them and they listened in
tently to the speeches from the plat
form.
Speeches were given by Chief Justice
HoSmer. w F. Sanders, Alex Davis, W.
L. Brown and others. including Pro-
history of the Vigilante activities.
Dimsdale vas a teacher-one of the
first instructors in Montana. An eX-
Oxford graduate. he had come west for
his health.
In the evening there were further
speeches at Nevada City. Professor
Dimsdale spoke again. as did w. F.
Sanders and others. The people who
gathered here TO listen were bit more
boisterous. but. as the Post records 1t:
Upon the whole the demeanor of the
population we'll became American cit
liens. who mourned the loss of two
men-one of whose places at least can
hardy be wOrthily filled
GulchS Sorrowful Day
The day OF the coming OF the news
thus ended. on a note OF sorrow Inc
next morning Virginia City and all OF
Alder GulCh stirred to its usual lie.
though any news coming from the east
was scrutiniZed with great eagerncSS.
Definite dispatches concerning me
complete defeat OF the south came in,
and Southerners. who chung to the last
to a hope the Confederacy might win,
we're disappointed. The Cleaner, cor
respondent of the Montana Post from
Last Chance gulch where Helena now
stands. reported: The news OF Grants
victory and Lees capture frightened
the eye of every Union man, and the
only consolation We have heard meted
/ out by any southern SympathiZer was,
Lee may have surrendered, it IS pos.
sible he did, but you never will hear OF
Longstreet doing the like. This l think
to be changing the place but keeping
| the pain"
Seward, of course. was not assassin
ated. This was a Geographic error, in
tensified by the force with which
rumors ran riot and became as accepted
facts after a couple of repeatings.
| IlllCOIIl ID lastly 4LiuA
dered," said the editorial of the Mon
tana Post upon that day of April %.
1865. William H. Seward. his coun-
! sellor. rests on the brink of the grave.
| Our heart bleedS as we write; but our
sorrow is not for these men, but for
the people of America. With all his
, triumphs garlanding his brow; with the
sweet incense of a nations gratitude
floating around him; embalmed in the
memories OF his countrymen: the theme
of their poets; the hero of their songs;
his name the talisman of the oppressed
in every cline; the story Of his acts
told by the mother to the listening
child, for centuries to come-can we
pity Abraham Lincoln as he looks be-
nignly down upon the people that he
died to save from the topmost niche in
the temple of fame? No. For him we
rejoice as for one who has received the
reward which he earned so nobly. The
fair record of the past is his; no blush
mantles the cheek Of the angelic scribe
as he pens the story of his life, and
a tear falls on the unsullied page as
he closes the book :. The trumpet Of
fame can sound no higher note. And
If answering faithfulness and worthy
service can entitle q man to the thanks
Of his compatriots and the approving
verdict Of posterity. then viii the name