Year: 1865




such sudden and awful transition fromI
national joy to national grtet, Never
before such a swift and terrible plunge!
from high and exuItaut nope TO deepI
anxiety. doubt and gloom. We standI
almost dumb, appalled, awc-stricken inl
the presence Of the great calamity which
has with no moment o, warning or
preparutioa. belallcn the nation. Midi
night assassination the last deSperateI
resort Of such foul Internal treason as
the brutaliziug institution Of slavery
alone cuuld produce has done its work
and the Chief Magistrate Of the nation
is its victim. God save the Republic.


The horrible details are contained in
our dispatches. We have no heart to
repeat them. The President who has
carried US SO safely and gloriously
through the dark ana uutried ways, who
has piloted the ship of state so stead
ilv and triumphantly through the
terrible and unprecedented storms of
the past four years the President upon
whom centered the hopes and the heart
felt love and reverence not only Of the
loyal American people, but Of the liberty
loving and down-trodden of the whole
world; that gentle and kind-hcarted
vet firm and heroic man OF the people
in whose hands as in those of no other
human being, all lovers of their country
were heartily content to leave the gui
dance Of the Union, amid the most gi
gantic perils CHat ever beset nation
that man, loved and hOnored and trust
ed as no man has been loved and honor
ed and trusted since the days Of Wash
ington: that man. the savior, unde
God of his country as Washington wa
its father, has fallen q last great sacri
fee to deyilish treason God save tn
RepHblic.


1t is not strange that every loyal citi
zen should feel not only that terribl
calamity has betallen the nation, bu
that a personal bereavement, as it We're
has befallen himself 1t is not strang
that men, unused to weep, should hav
given way to bitter tears, as some did il
the streets of Rutland, on the reception
of Saturdays terrible news. 1t is no
strange that the tidings fell upon mos
men like a thunderbOlt from a clear sky
dismaying, disheartening, paralyzing.


The ways Of God are inscrutable. Tn
nation mourns ABRAHAM LINCOLN as ma
tion never before mourned the loss O
any man Yet it will strive to bow i
submission to the Divine will; it wi
contide in the goodness of Him who ha
given us the victory over the enemies Q
the Union and free government; it Wi
devoutly trust that this great nationa
aflliction may be sanctifed to the goo
Of the nation; and every man who love
his country and hates slavery, who love
justice and hates brutality, will b
nerved to renewed effort and a sterne
resolve to purge the length and beadH Q
the land Of erey testige Of sl0r0y-Jcgofte,
heIi-J0ra treason.


Whether the people needed this arou:
ing at this time whether they needle
this further fearful evidence of the fe
spirit and horrible capabilities Of treS
son, it is not for us to undertake to sa,
But it is Gods will that the furthC
great sacrifice of the nations believe
chief should be laid upon the altar {
the country, and we will pray Him t
work good to the nation out OF its III
paralleIed atllction.


ABRAHAM LINCOLN is dead But
lived to see the armies OF treason owe
thrown; he lived to see the cause of tn
Union victorious; he lived to see tt
principles of which he was the chief N
holder triumphant. Those principles wi
ever live; and so the memory ofABRAHA
LINCOLN will ever live, enshrined wit
Washington's, in the hearts of his couI
trymen.