H21 Isaac ling address two memorial delivered on Fox-Bo ro . . I \ , | I I I 1 I \ \ ) I § I II, K \KN < L 1 1 \K I W M vHII I I V HARDING LINCOLN TWO (^MEMORIAL ADDRESSES DELIVERED ON FOX- BORO COMMON 1865 and 1923 - w^'V^iv-ai^-rj^x y~; I IUUAIO I I N I \l V IIP! 11 FORT! II * r rJT^ ^1 71 -II *-*&JLb-T*LiKLA Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://archive.org/details/twomemorialaddreOObart TWO MEMORIAL ADDRESSES DELIVERED ON FOX- BORO COMMON REV. WILLIAM E. BARTON, D. D. IN MEMORY OF PRESIDENT HARDING AUGUST 10. 1923 REV. ISAAC SMITH. A. M. IN MEMORY OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN APRIL 19. 1865 THE PRINT SHOP INCORPORATED FOXBORO, MASSACHUSETTS 1923 i?/4 Hz\W FOXBORO HONORS HARDING (From the Foxboro Reporter, August 17, 1923.) LAST Friday afternoon a large audience assembled on the Common to ■^ honor our dead President, Warren Gamaliel Harding. The affair was arranged by the Selectmen, L. W. Foster Post and others. Ex-Selectman Kimball was chairman of the committee of arrangements and the Boy Scouts under Scoutmaster Foulds assisted in many ways. Dr. Thomas furnished transportation for the members of the Grand Army Post and also loaned the use of the State Hospital truck to transport the seats which were placed near the bandstand. Ex-Representative George R. Ellis presided and announced the program. The Laurence W. Foster Post American Legion marched from their quarters to the grounds. Com- rades Bourne, Sands, Williams, Pierce, and Wheeler of the E. P. Car- penter Post, G. A. R. were present in their uniforms. A quartette com- posed of Harry C. J. Rost, Walter F. Bosworth, Hobart A. Smart and Albert E. Bence assisted in the musical part of the program. The pro- gram as announced in last week's issue of the Reporter was carried out except that Rev. Michael A. Butler was unable to be present to pro- nounce the benediction, having been called to another observance. Rev. William H. Thurston of Mechanic street was substituted for that service. The committee was very fortunate in securing Rev. William E. Barton to deliver the address of the day. Dr. Barton is the successful pastor of one of the largest and most influential churches in the United States, and moderator of the National Council of Congregational churches. He is the author of "Parables of Safed the Sage". His son, Bruce Barton, is the celebrated essayist of the American magazine and other publications. During his remarks he stated that the most prized momento of Lin- coln, by his followers, is the address delivered in the Town Hall of Fox- boro on April 19, 1865, simultaneously with the funeral of President Lincoln, by Rev. Isaac Smith. Among the audience which listened to Dr. Barton was seated Mrs. Byron H. Waterman, who was present and heard Dr. Smith in 1865. After the exercises, Mrs. Waterman was intro- duced to Dr. Barton who congratulated her on having been privileged to hear Dr. Smith and also on her continued good health and well pre- served faculties. Business was suspended in the banks, stores and post-office and the wheels of industry paused in the factories. M sKS ON 1 v N, AUGUST 10. 19:3. A . F THE FUNERAL I I OF <- <. + + * im MUtOf] and Bou: f ;lcri I Lad Kindh Quartet ayer Kcv. W. Ellsworth LawtOd 4. "Nearer My God u Quartet and Congregation I Address Krv W I Barton. D. D. 6. Benediction Krv Father Michael A. Butler •:;.'r PWa| Squad ps Milton and Bourne, Bugleri ADDRESS BY REV. WILLIAM E. BARTON, D. D. THE flags of all nations, drooping at half-mast, salute the lowered and shrouded emblem of the Republic. A widow's sob at Marion, Ohio, is answered by bugles sounding "Taps" all around the world. The sorrow of this gathering finds its answering sorrow in ten thousand assemblies held in every por- tion of our country, and far beyond the sea. We are surround- ed by a great cloud of witnesses. Our songs, our prayers, our words of sympathy, are uttered with the knowledge that pray- ers and songs and words like ours are finding expression at this hour all the way from Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound, all the way from Alaska to Panama, yes, all the way east and all the way west until they meet the echoes of like expressions of sor- row and comfort, as far as the human voice can anywhere be heard. The event which brings us together, and the character of this service, find their precedent in a service held on April 19, 1865. At the hour of the funeral of President Abraham Lin- coln, a service was held in the Town Hall, held as this is held, under the auspices of the officials of the Town, with all religious and civic bodies uniting, and attended by the people of Foxboro, without regard to sect or class. The address delivered on that day by Rev. Isaac Smith was printed, and is one of the most prized of pamphlets relating to Abraham Lincoln. Today, as on that day, Foxboro expresses her patriotism and her esteem for a good and wise and worthy President, suddenly called from us by death. It is in keeping with the character and history of Foxboro that she should assemble today to pay her tribute of affection and respect to our dead President. Foxboro is a patriotic town. [1] io mmn r hakding wii born in : and baptized at the sh It Lt said that th cannon cast for the Colonial army wat made by a resident of Hall give names o: who fought in th 8 who .,ht in the war .it kept : ead on our majestic memorial rock m the names of the men of Fox- bo: ht agar -d and oppress: at con?: and pa: k in this a little company of venerable men who wore the blue in 1861-5. and a fine, stalwart body of men in kahki. members of the American La Only an event of nat ce could have brought together such a gathering as this. No hall or church in I boro could have afforded room for our assembly We are here hers such that only the Common can furnish us an .• quate floor, a: is no roof m Koxhoro that could o this gathering save the blue sky itself \g at once our companionship ■ \ all true Americans . lay m proud sorrow, and with t no. in I vears. < . call eithe: war or peace have been true to the Bpfa xboro. When, in 1865. tbfl s held h already refer- ence has be' I had fallen by the hand of an assassin It was an occasion of horror as well as of sort and that horr« the death of P ts Garfield am: hank God. that ho: does not enter into this present M Warren G. Harding's death is shocking in its sudden occ. is not the res iman hate and at least, let us profou: Ours is not an incurable sorrow: our n have in them n rs-> tl th has no sting of I I eletnei nan passio: early absent mi than from i si of a President dead ! Garfield and M e all assassins M m BY WILLIAM E. BARTON. D. D. Harrison and Taylor both died so soon after their inauguration that charges of foul play were freely made, charges for which there was no real foundation. Harrison and Taylor died so soon after their election that the heat of the two campaigns had not died down; Harding dies in no such time of divided loyalties. The heart of America is one heart today. And yet we cannot forget that even President Harding was subject to severe and bitter criticism. America has never had a great President who did not suffer cruel and unmerited cen- sure. Washington, Lincoln, McKinley, Roosevelt, all were slandered. It is good to know that at the moment of his sud- den death, Mr. Harding was listening to the reading of an ar- ticle which spoke of him in terms of discriminating praise. I hope he knows that all America and the world echo those sen- timents of praise and approval today. It is beautiful to see the unanimity with which the American press today pays trib- ute to the genuine goodness of Warren G. Harding. We could have wished that he had heard more of this while he was living. We do not honor our great men as we ought to honor them. We do not discover their greatness as we ought until they are gone from us. No other nation makes so much as America makes of symbolism in intimate things. We have a most elab- orate etiquette of the flag; we make a religion of reverence for our national anthem; but we are too much afraid of honoring our men. Neither a strain of music nor a piece of striped bunting can ever mean much except as they represent qualities that are honorable in our manhood. Can we call Warren G. Harding a great man? What con- stitutes a great man? How many presidents of the United States would you call great? I have known, not intimately to be sure, the last seven or eight Presidents; which of them would you call great? Was Benjamin Harrison a great man? Or Grover Cleveland? Or William McKinley? Or Theodore Roosevelt? Or William Howard Taft? Or Woodrow Wilson? I held them all in respect; but of which of them could it be said that he was truly great? But if Presidents are not great, who are our great men? Are bank presidents or presidents of railroads great men? Not many of them seem so to me. How [3] TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT HA ma c generals of the Civil War 1 at men? How many generals of A rid W^ f ;t**t? 1 will not htt >f them, but those that I h. :iot ap- ir*bly greater than other men, and the ones moat nearly great have been the least inclined to as- And vet. wc will agree, America has had. and some* muit still h.i it men. Wherr D wai a great man. We shall all agree about that. But I 11 an interesting fact. I have been reading several of the sermons dc just a: coin's death, and of the ad- ses dc. :iguishc rs at the time of his funeral, and not all of these orators, not many of them, indeed. call Lincoln a all praise him. and say that . was kind, and generous and magnanimous and tactful and sympathetic and honest and si: Hi they stop just short of calling him ^reat. o one hesitates to ascribe greatness to Abraham ojfl Ptoplf «rho had known him in the familiarity of his daily life lived too near him to appreciate his greatness. I seems far greater to us than he did to most of his coo- temporaries; and he will appear greater cars from now than he dON today. So, I believe, will Harding. I will not attempt in any dose and intimate fashion to say • the lite - J Warren G. Harding was like that of Abraham ' see the two men in the same perspect. oln has become a semi -mythical character, almost super- hu:: oodness and greatness. Hut Harding had some qualities not unlike those of In. W.i | was an honest man. No one holding his hand and looking into his face could doubt that he was sincr and that 1. He was a kind man. considerate and I and patient He was a man who ns. and he was not ea hose elements wh, li him a patent 1— der — a practical I vision of what tl accept fl BY WILLIAM E. BARTON. D. D. their representatives thorough confidence and patience. In all this Harding was like Lincoln. He was a man of the people, born of the common stuff of American manhood, and elevated by the free choice of the people to be their chief representative. In all these respects his greatness was like that of Lincoln. Harding was not tested in time of war, but he had the severe testing of "the cruel wars of peace", and, like Lincoln he did not betray the confidence of the people. I am aware that Harding has been severely blamed because he favored the World Court and did not favor the League of Nations. Even so William Lloyd Garrison blamed Abraham Lincoln, and Wendell Phillips called him "the slave-hound of Illinois" and the extreme abolitionists vied with the Copper- heads in their abuse of Lincoln. But Lincoln knew, and Har- ding knew how far the people would go and how far Congress would go. Harding knew that neither the Senate nor the peo- ple desired that America should enter the League of Nations as at present constituted. Lloyd George, in a speech delivered two weeks ago, on July 25, cried out that there will never be a League of Nations until it is so reconstituted as to include Rus- sia and Germany and to be acceptable to the United States. Harding knew this. It was only Harding's earnestness that made the World Court an issue; the League, on its present basis, is not an issue in America. Harding knew it. I have reason to believe, and do believe, that Mr. Harding has been thoroughly loyal to his own conscience, and loyal to what he believed the best interests of America and the world, in the stand he has taken in international relationships. And I believe that the future will declare he has been right. Wood- row Wilson went to Versailles with high and noble ideals. I have no words save those of praise for Wilson. He carried with him the Fourteen Points on which already the war had ended. The Council at Versailles undertook to arrange a treaty of peace on the basis of Wilson's Fourteen Points, and if the Fourteen Points had had the small pox, the treaty would have been immune. The Fourteen Points became a music-hall joke in Paris before Woodrow Wilson was half through. No nation that consented to the Armistice on the basis of the Fourteen [5] ••: ING sponsible *1. tatilct nee *ny ab 4y thai id well to take warrant :rap of I in intrigue and hatred and revenge. America can science ; we do any nation'i bat 'on any negative attitude I think -nanently a* the man H krj • Nation* any more than it wiL A'oodrov. kept m Id will remember Wa Harding a* thr o -operation of Charle and accomplished the result the Washington C began in tuch a dramatic fashion an so tan do not half ap; It . a war ) a and Japan, and laid the basis of a r HI It termin. the Anglo-Japane* moat inimical at it was to the in- -stt of America, and gave us the oppoii alliancr - * or e»- tra: me hat the ma- -1 not I ..rid in t : iing of \ and that the process thoi nrncdia' of i ^ that were a menace to I .d't pea i'i paramount the Pacific, .im\ hr to a navy at great at that of any seven teas but I •>! the oceans in the cut- . of thr I rt logic of the which tays that two tune B thfOt All thii I!.. au- skill, tact and and it been done On the day g, tpeaking at the grave of the unknown so! what no Prett- ied that mighty •' BY WILLIAM E. BARTON. D. D. which he led in audible tones, ringing clear amid the hushed voices of thousands who heard and joined him. Warren G. Harding was a quiet, unostentatious Christian. When Abraham Lincoln left Springfield to be inaugurated President, he told his old neighbors that he was going to under- take a responsibility heavier than that of Washington, and he could not hope to succeed without the help of that God on whom Washington relied. He asked his old neighbors to pray for him. So Harding, as he left Marion under like circum- stances, said to his old neighbors, "I want to go to Washington with your prayers as well as your friendship. Though I may not always be the ideal, I want you to know that in my heart is a reverence for Almighty God. I believe that He has his own part in directing the destinies of this free people." It is fortunate, yea, providential, in this hour, that America has as her leader a man like Calvin Coolidge. Death has sel- dom given us a good President. A Vice-President, stepping into the place of the Chief Magistrate, has a most difficult place to fill. But Calvin Coolidge gives us good reason to hope and expect that he will worthily perform the work that has come to him by the call of Providence. How worthily he has begun ! Who can fail to admire the quiet dignity of his taking the oath, administered in the old farm-house, by the President's father! Thus far he has made no mistakes. His words have been wise, dignified, tactful, strong; and Mrs. Coolidge has shown herself a lady capable of sustaining the high dignity and moral value of her position. Well may the Old Bay State rejoice with solemn pride that one of her sons comes worthily, even through such grief, to the chair of John Adams and John Quincy Adams. Again is Mass- achusetts the mother of Presidents. Let her honor Calvin Coolidge, refrain from cheap and trivial criticism of his poli- cies, and set him on high in her heart as a man of character and conscience and Christian faith. Calvin Coolidge wrote a book whose title was, "Have Faith in Massachusetts". Let Massa- chusetts and the nation have faith in Calvin Coolidge. Our thoughts turn in these closing moments to the little city in Ohio where a brave and heart-broken woman mourns her [7] N dead, ind n bland amid a f| .£ from the ou: God give her com- I in thr r left t: - House a month ago. not ting that it wii to be her home fur six more year*, now the mutt suddenly chan> ..hole hie plan, and retut •ier lonely remaining yean near the g: .im the th the heartfelt sym- id the f a united peo; It is in. ;et a certain aimilanty in the funerals an I Harding in theii side character. When i wai about to go eait for hu inaugural, five State Leg- islatures then in sessi bin to visit them on his way Washington He did mm therefore ., the A Indiana. Ohio. New York. N sey and and stc , lay not •ant from the I he must travel in capitols When hi I was determined that turn to :ie same route Never had there been another funeral just like that, ami the funeral of -ding is not wholly a parallel Ye: the same train on | was proi. I rancisco is that which brought him back, its gar- lands char. lems of mourning. That funeral train a length such as no similar funeral can equal, has lent't body from coast to coast, and found 1*1 heart of sorrow and loyalty eve: j where the same. While Lincoln's body was on its w. r tomb. Henry W.v MH delivered a whuh is recognized as one of the most eloquent funeral orations ever del:. n America .id: "And now t: ;>hal ma f;ht- •han wr.' The nat. s up at his I ities and States are his pall bearers, and the cannon beat the hours with solemn progression. Dead. dead. dead, he ifctthl Is Washington dead? Is Hampden dead 1 Is David dead? Is ar was ftl dead? <~ars ago. oh. Ilhn- • ried man. and from among the pe ■ > rn him to you. a [•] BY WILLIAM E. BARTON. D. D. mighty conqueror. Not thine any more, but the nation's; not ours but the world's. Give him place, oh, ye prairies! In the midst of the continent his dust shall rest, a sacred treasure to myriads who shall pilgrim to that shrine to kindle anew their zeal and patriotism." So we, this day, salute Ohio, and say to her : "Two years ago, oh, mother of Presidents, we received from you a man but little known to us and the world, and we laid upon him the heavy burdens of national leadership. Today we give him back to your keeping. Lay his sacred dust in the same soil that enshrines your Garfield and McKinley. To you we yield him, for he is yours; but he is not yours alone. His in- tegrity, his loyalty, his honor and his Christian faith have given his name a place immortal among the rulers of mankind." A nation must incarnate her own ideals in the lives of her great men. Except as she does this, her constitution and her statutes and her international conventions are sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. America will be free and her influence will be a blessing among nations, and her flag will float with high and undimmed luster, so long as she produces out of the stuff of her common manhood men like Lincoln, Harding and Coolidge. The sun is sinking, and this day nears its close, both here and in Marion. The doors of the tomb are about to close upon all that is mortal of a brave, good man ; and we shall presently close this service. The buglers will sound their last salute. The veterans of the World War will fire their farewell shots, and we shall depart from this place and face again with solemn and confident hearts our duties as individuals and citizens. Let the bugles sound "Taps" for the time has come to bid farewell to all that is mortal of Warren G. Harding. Let the minute-guns, with their dull, heavy roar, carry from town to town the message of our sorrow. But America's sky is brighter in the west where Harding's sun went down, and its glow is the prophecy of a glorious and abiding dawn. [9] AN ADDRESS Delivered in the Town Hall, Foxborough, Mass., April 19, 1865, simultaneously with the funeral of President Lincoln. By Rev. Isaac Smith, A. M. FELLOW CITIZENS : We assemble to-day under circum- stances of unparalleled solemnity. Never, from the land- ing of the Mayflower, to the fourth anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter; from the nineteenth of April, when the great struggle commenced at Lexington and Concord, to the nine- teenth of April that witnesses the funeral rites of President Lincoln, has anything occurred so calculated to thrill the nat- ional heart, as the closing scene in the great drama last week. We may well doubt if the annals of the world can furnish aught that surpasses it. The assassination of Caesar in the senate house; of William, Prince of Orange, by Gerard; the fate of Richard 2d, and of Edward 5th; the Gunpowder Plot; and the long list of dark deeds in ancient and mediaeval ages, har- monized with the spirit of those times, the deep darkness and degradation of the people. But in the nineteenth century, in enlightened America, in the land of Bibles, of sanctuaries, and sabbath schools; a land imbued with puritanic influences, and so near the ashes of a Washington, and when the universal shout of victory had scarcely died away, — it is then that death, and such a death, falls with startling effect, with stunning power. The poet Young has said, — "Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow; A blow, which while it executes, alarms, And startles thousands by a single fall." Here the assassin threw death into the centre, and rolled its dark waves over sympathizing millions. Earth has no fiend of darker hue. Hell has no fury with more malignant hate. How deplorable the thought, that man, under the combined power of all vile influences, should ever sink so low! Alas, that we are [11] UBHi UNIVERSITY 0? IKllKtitt THE LINCOLN ADDRESS include -neric name; that wc can neither tbc tped .■. .pe from the race the •• as as truly (1 the act with which the lan- guage was associated. N t falls En this instance. No ,-d. No good to others could result. The empli • ;. the wrr- | .is blindly in this, as they st then own cherished schemes throughout. The :le was t their truest friend. One baser than Judas, more cruel than Herod, more bloody than the hounds of the South, b aity Lo blood. . like individu. ft their reverses and triumphs. Ours, in its Infant entered some of the most unnat .vcrful of enemies. in individu.il experiences, we were developed and mati: I t^onistic influences. Our I war. however, was the most appalling, and threatened to ve the n The North still had import. van* I h he foundation of society had been lai D faith And prayer. The Puritans were influenced by re- iderations, when they crossed the ocean, and erect- ed the church, the schoolhouse. and the college, in these wes:- wilds. Not so with the South. They belonged to a stratum in society. Descendants of cavaliers, devotees of w- ion. "lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God." they verged to the I extreme, locally, morally, and in every point of view. The progeny of both were true to the instincts, the hab- and sentiments of their sires. The one engaged in the Its, the useful arts of industry; the Othei and transmitted the blandishments of artificial life, the cruel code of revenge, and the arbitrament of war The former glor- :n their OWD honorable toflj the latter in extorting it. unre- quited, fro: Thfl God U) whose ears the groans of oppressed Israel as 1 who judged between them and Phaiaoh. has I 'mded such di is In one instan r had a work of deliveram ■ he rais^ V r S : in the other. Abr.tham Lincoln sufD .vas more extensive and in the latter in- stance, and a similar - r In it was equally consis' I »21 BY REV. ISAAC SMITH Mr. Lincoln has, with propriety, been regarded as the special gift of God for an important emergency. And it may well be doubted whether any other man could have filled his place so usefully to the people. He rose from obsurity. He had felt the pressure of poverty. His early culture was very limited and imperfect. He was thus thrown upon his own resources. Schooled in adversity, he was convers- ant with it. No man could better enter into the feelings of the masses. He used the most unadorned language, whether in state papers, public speeches, or private conversation; and if urged, in any instance, to adopt a more classic diction, his reply was, "The people will understand it." He came into power at a most critical juncture. No president, in any pre- vious war, had equal difficulties to meet. Washington, to whom we properly attribute so much, had a less difficult task. He seems to have commenced with a determination not to sacrifice life needlessly, and not to suffer the national honor to be in any way impaired. Honest in his own nature and designs, he had some confidence in the honesty of his foes. He therefore hoped to effect something by conciliation. He had much to learn, as all others had. But he was quick to discern. He read- ily saw the practical working of his plans, and advanced with a firm and even course. If he had gone faster or farther, he would have been compelled to proceed alone. If he had done less, he would, in reality, have effected nothing. He had mani- fested more determination, there might have been a division at the North. As it was, he carried the millions with him, and with a remarkable unanimity. His great proclamation of freedom was issued at a time when the nation was convinced of its propriety, and when the civi- lized world must see the issues, with no alternative but to just- ify the North, or approve of slavery. Our President was genial in his nature, and kind in his inter- course with all. His fondness for story-telling relieved many an anxious thought, and made the cares of state rest more easily upon him. And sometimes perhaps his anecdotes served to conceal the conflicting emotions that preyed upon him. His integrity of heart, and honesty of purpose were prover- [I3J THK LINCOLN ADDRESS bial. Wc may well hope th.it his soul was . i the Great Supreme by I hvi When ftl Western dm the respootibilit And he seems I felt a reliance upon a bub: and over ratio in all the duties of his :on. nor did he make use of his power for the ment or humiliation of his opponents. While deter- mined to sustain the dignity of the government, he leaned to the side of me have thought he exercised the par- ing power too freely, and that he did not deal with the ene itv These. ai^\ many other things, k the goodness of his heait. while they argue nothing against the soundness of his judgement. He . vith reference to other nations. When he saw them take- of our difficulties, and was urged to mcnt equally with himself, when his property was in danger, when life itself was imperilled, he was at true as the needle to the pole. Gold coul rchasc him, nor the halter terrify him. The 'he trumpet tongue, that would shake the rpose of his soul, met no response there A Leoni- das in courage and determination, he was more than Spartan, when the hordes of the I him. In my opinion, he would D been the man for the country in 1861 ; he is probably the best man it can produce in 1865. His resolute, de- termined manner might have complicated our difficulties then; he will show no quarter to traitors now. It was feared that our worth'. lent, though firm in the struggle, would look with what he would intend as a feeling of magnanimity upon a fallen foe, and in the goodness of his heart, propose such terms at would make treason look to those in after ages as a very rill affair; that an amnesty might be proclaimed, which did embrace not the deceived and deluded masses merely. the leaders also; that there might be such a restoration of property, and reinstatement in all the privileges of citizenship, as v. cm but a premium on rebellion. ident Johnson will undoubtedly insist, that, if there can- not be complete "indemnity for the past." there shall be at least "security for the future." He well knows what he. with the Unionists of Tennessee, has suffered He will think of the butchery of surrendered soldier- Through the wounded and dying, of the abuse of the dead, of the trink- ets made from their bones, of the tens of tho. tortured in prisons and starved to death, of the multitudes still more un- fortunate, who linger out a life of wretchedness, of the infernal • to murder his predecessor, of the "ch:. in the cha : the Sc of State; and. rather than concede or aid say. in the language of Dr Kirk* "God of battles, lead us Nil Death to slavery and tO traitors' :se in regard to "the doomed institution" may be infc: from the f. Washington to assume the pos be was elr\ the suffrages of the peo- • with him from Tennessee its ratification of the I IB] BY REV. ISAAC SMITH constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, procured through his own exertions. We would not encourage the spirit of revenge. We would breathe everywhere, "Good will to men." As ministers of the gospel, I speak for one, and think I may for the others present, — we have conscientiously preached peace, and rejoiced in hope that her "olive-branch" would wave over the nations of the earth, and "wreathe her chain" around the thousand millions in harmonious brotherhood. But this necessity was forced upon us. We had no alternative. Before us was an appeal to arms, or the loss of all that was dear to man, or precious in the sight of God. But now, by the love we bear to our country, to our con- temporaries North and South, and to unborn myriads that shall occupy this vast extent of territory; after all this expenditure of blood and treasure, and especially after what has made this day's solemnities necessary; in the name of humanity, in the name of God, we protest against "healing the hurt of the people slightly." Nor will it be. All honor to the man who was the gift of God and the people's choice, and who fulfilled his high mission as he alone could. Memory shall wreathe her mourning cypress around his clay-cold form, and keep ceaseless vigils over his honored dust. But while we abate not our veneration for him, let us now repose a suitable confidence in his successor. Like Joshua, he takes up the work where Moses left it. Nor let us forget that the Being who arranged things as his ancient people approached the land of beauty and abundance, still maintains control over our destinies. Kossuth, while in this country, remarked, "There is a providence in every fact." We can see those providences from the earliest history of our coun- try, in all its conflicts with foreign powers ; we see them in the convulsive throes through which we have now so far passed. In this day of our calamity, we should not distrust Him whose paternal care has ever proved unfailing. A remarkable patho- logical fact is stated by the surgeons attending on Mr. Seward ; that the wounds inflicted on him, acting on the principle of a counter-irritant, actually relieved the extreme inflammation re- sulting from the fracture of his jaw. And thus, what the as- sassin intended for his destruction, so far resulted in his good. [19] IH OLN ADDKEB8 It illustrates a great principle w! :nment of G ..lb. Th | calami- the ''■ ' :~ : il-::. *h ^r ■■\r: :.:'..•■..; r:.c:. J CM :e:. Itl it s;:i>sc:- :onal good. r the c st four ft does not admit of a question, whether a muled in intelligence and Lei the 1: nlv appear on our na- ' and a career of j. s and gl ore us. of which only the I at this hour, there is no gov- the broad v of heaven that rests on a firmer I ours. Would that our lamented President me of the remoter fruits of his anxieties ' : evidences of those stupendous results which fa v. But "One sow- eth, and another rcapeth." "Other men labored, and we are en- tered into then And in the ages of the future, the undeveloped effects of wh.it has been sown in ! D agony and blood, will grand and glorioi: .11 the indi- >ns of the present. Millions on millions will turn almost adoringly to these times, make pilgrimages to the grave to which the services of t 'int. and bless the memory of him who reposes there. And when, in future days. "The light of memory backward streams." or the historian shall search for the brightest, the purest, the most lllustriousof names, tower- ing in majestic proportions above the myriads of ephemeral fame, he will find in simple, unadorned, yet colossal and unap- proachable grandeur, the name of Abraham Lincoln, and fragrant be the laurels that encircle hit brow He: he is enshrined in m. :«le renown Hut while art and :ve immortality to his pure fame, we in- trust it to neither. We will point t leoleum, to ma: it in.iv be, vet too cold are their utterances. He has en t e r ed the portals of the national Hid there his memory will be ftd while the moon shall wax and wane, and till the hi- he stars shall fade. I ?o ! S . A WW * ■ ,•-• s 3 0112 031841825