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MEMORIAL DISOOUESE

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED STATES,

DELIVERED AT HOLLIS !! N.H.,

N, THE DAT OP THE NATIONAL PAST, JUNE 1, ISfiK

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MEMORIAL DISCOURSE

CHARACTER

ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

DELIVERED AT HOLLIS, N. H.,

ON THE DAY OP THB NATIONAL PAST, JUNE 1, 1865.

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DISCOURSE.

"We are here to-day, my friends, at the request
of the highest authority of our land, to unite with
the great mass of our countrymen in the memorial
services of our late lamented and endeared President.
The mysterious events of a wise Providence have
taken from us the second Father of our Country, and
a bereaved nation mourns. A cruel and ruthless
hand has smitten him down, and bathed us all in
tears. We have come to mingle our sorrows; to
dwell upon his virtues, and to learn such lessons as
his untimely death is calculated to teach.
Never, since time began, has the departure of one
man filled so many hearts with sadness, and never
have so many gathered, on one occasion of mourning,
as will be gathered this day. The Cruel manner of
our President's death; the critical period of public
affairs in which he fell; the loss of so much
experience, talent, and honest purpose, and the
sundering of so many cords of personal love, all
conspire to make the event one of the most
mournful interest. AU civiUzed nations tender us
their sympathy, and unite with us in sorrowing
over our sad bereavement. Thirty millions of hearts
have been pierced by one foul blow of the assassin,

and all the enlightened world pause to sigh, and to
utter their grief The very Goddess of Liberty
comes to the bier of her martyred chief, with folding
robes, to weep.
That my remarks may take the form of a religious
discourse, they will be based upon —
II. SAMUEL 3 : 32, 38.
"And the King lifted dp his voice and wept at the
GRAVE OP Abner, and all the people wept  And
THE King said unto his servants, know te not that
there is a Prince and Great Man fallen in Israel this
DAT." There were two things which made the death of
Abner such an afflictive event among the Jews.
One was the Tnanner by which he came to his
end. He was invited aside, to hold a friendly
interview, by one of equal rank with himself, and
there, while enjoying, as he supposed, the protection
of friendship and of honor, he was stabbed under
the fifth rib, and died. The deed was regarded
with horror by friends and foes, and aU aUke
bewailed the event. David would have put to
death the assassin, as he did those of Saul and
Mephibosheth, but he found the sons of Zeruiah
too hard for him, and he left the punishment to
Solomon, who executed his father's command.
The other consideration which enhanced the grief
of the Jews was the fact that a man of great worth
had faUen. Precisely in what Abner's greatness
consisted, his brief biography does not inform us, but
certain it is he was a man possessing extraordinary

virtues. It was the combination of these two
circumstances that threw the whole Jewish people
into such depths of sorrow.
It is these two considerations that have pierced
so deeply the heart of this great nation, in the
death of Abraham Lincoln. He had led this people
through the most trying period that a people ever
passed. He took the helm of state at a time when
the storm was breaking upon us ; when the political
sky was filled with dark, portentous clouds; when
the hearts of men quailed with fear; and, by a
rare sagacity and firmness, he pUoted us through
our perils. Though at first unknown, his signal
abUity and devotion soon secured our confidence
and love. We saw his comprehensive thought;
his christian faith; his cheerful disposition; his
persistency in the right; his reliance on divine
support ; his integrity, firmness, and superior foresight,
and our hearts went out toward him. They clustered
around him as the magnetic sands around the needle,
or as a famUy of children around a father, when a beast
of prey howls around the dweUing. We felt a great
security whUe he was guiding our destinies, and
worked on in cheerfulness and in hope. We should
have been sad, indeed, had he fallen by disease. Yet,
had God sent some messenger of sickness or accident
to cut him off, we should have had the grief, without
the indignation ; but when cruelty and atrocity are
added, our cup is more than fuU. Our grief, our
sense of justice, our holy and unholy cravings for
revenge, are aU aroused, and the national heart cries
out for redress from the depths of her sorrow.
But Mr. Lincoln and his cruel murderer are both

gone to their reward, and we wiU not pause to
scrutinize further this mysterious Providence. Justice
has been defrauded of her dues, by the sudden death
of the assassin. Before the victim at which he aimed
his deadly blow was in his tomb, he died in agony,
and was ingloriously buried in an unknown grave.
MiUions of curses roll over his head, and the
execrations of posterity wiU sink him deeper and
deeper in infamy. Mr. Lincoln's name wUl stand
upon the pages of history as the great martyr of
civU liberty, and will be honored and admired to the
end of time. Washington and FrankUn lived for the
Eepublic. Mr. LmcoLN died for it ; and so long as a
monument of American greatness and virtue shall
stand, his will be visited and revered.
Among the many causes which have led to so deep
and universal regret at his death is the fact that he
was beloved by the nation, and they loved him
because he first loved them. Love is a rare attribute
in the chief magistrate of a greaf people. We do
not demand nor expect that he who stands at the
helm of state shall be a lovely or loving man. We
have even felt that such virtues would disqualify
one for the sterner duties of judicial or mUitary
administration. We have demanded justice, firmness,
integrity, comprehensive views of government, and
have thought that the less of the heart the better.
We have so long regarded an iron wiU and an iron
heart as the first requisite for a ruler, that we have
thought tenderness and love a weakness. But Mr.
Lincoln has changed our views. He was one of those
rare men who could sit with dignity and abiUty in
the chair of State, under the ermine of domestic and

social virtue. WhUe he was equal to any of his
peers in statesmanship, and could hold the reins of
government with firmness and strength, he could also
assume the position of a father, brother and friend.
While he commanded respect and admiration as a
magistrate, he threw around him a greater charm by
the manly and lovely virtues of his great heart. He
often denied men their requests, but he did it so
kindly and convincingly "that they went away feeling
he was their best friend.
He had neither pomp nor aristocracy in his veins.
He was born and always lived among the common
people. AU his associations were with that class
who obtained a livelihood by honest toil, and who
cherish the domestic virtues. BeUeving these virtues
to be the underlying elements of all elevated
humanity, whether in high life or in low, he took
them to himself He had no sjrmpathy with that
so-caUed high, chivalrous life, which ignores purity,
affection and love.
Accordingly, when he was elevated to the chief
office of the nation, he brought his character with
him. He went into the White House determined to
be a man, as weU as a ruler ; and if compelled, in
some measure, to conform to the common usages of
diplomacy, he would not sink his manhood. He
would still be kind, merciful and true to christian and
social virtue.
Hence the people loved him — loved him as they
never loved a President before. He was plain, honest,
straight-forward, unsophisticated. They saw he was
unambitious, and had the courage to stand between
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of his genial humor, his amusing stories, his happy
illustrations, and, abov6 all, his instinctive, genuine
good sense, and persistency in the right. They saw
his self-abnegation, and his continual aim at the
public good. They saw that he laid aside the robes
and airs of royalty, and came down among them.
Their souls went out toward him as a man after their
own heart. When he spoke it was like a brother or
a father. The soldier in hi« misfortune, the mother
in her sorrow, and the wife in her grief, were not
afraid to approach him. You well remember that
wife who stood three days in the ante-chamber of his
house, with a babe in her arms, to ask the pardon of
a husband about to be shot, and how the cry of that
child awoke all the tenderness of his great heart, and
secured the husband's release, and how the old servant
said, " Madam, it was the baby that did it." You
remember, also, that mother whose husband and three
sons had enlisted in the service, and who, after the
death of her husband, came to ask the discharge of
one of the sons, to help sustain herself and Uttle
ones, and that before the order of release had reached
that son he was also dead, and how she came again,
and the President said, " I know what you want, you
need not ask; we will divide the other two sons
between us. You shall have one, and I will retain
the other." You remember, too, how this grateful ¦
mother, with tears running down her cheeks, dared to *
pass her trembling hand over his rough hair, as he sat
writing an order for the son's discharge, and said,
" The Lord bless you, Mr. President." Is it strange
that such a ruler should be loved by his people ? Is
it strange that they should exclaim, in the bereaving

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strains of the ancient bard, « Thou wast slain in thine
high places. I am distressed for thee, my brother.
Very pleasant hast thou been unto me; thy love
to me was wonderful, passing the love of women."
The people also had great confidence in Mr.
Lincoln's judgment, as well as love for his character.
Burke said that confidence was a plant of slow
growth ; but under the pressure of emergencies it wUl
sometimes grow fast. That was true of Mr. Lincoln.
When he assumed his of&cial trust, the dark clouds of
war were hovering around us. He was a stranger to
us, and we were fearful. He came from civil life, and
without mUitary experience. The circumstances of
the country were all new; there was no fixed and
settled policy. PubUc sentiment was like immense
sea-surges, roUing over the breakers. All was agita
tion. If there was any man in which the country
had confidence, it was in General Scott. What Mr.
LmcoLN did was of course subject to the severest
criticism ; not so much because his critics were sure
he was wrong, as they could not see, in their own
inexperience, that he was right. They had no confi
dence in their own judgment, and therefore had none
in his. His official position often prevented him from
explaining the reason for his course, and crafty poli
ticians were constantly thwarting his plans. He,
therefore, was misjudged. But as time passed, and
the reasons of his poUcy were more fully known, and
he became more independent of the earlier influences
which surrounded him, the people saw his superior
wisdom. They saw that he had a farther reach of
mind than themselves ; that he took into view and bal
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that he swept the whole horizon of public interest in
his vision. They learned at length to suspend their
judgment when in doubt about his policy, and to wait
tUl aU the facts were made public ; and so uniformly
did his wisdom appear, that they trusted him as a
chUd does a father. His opinions were law. When,
therefore, he was taken from us, we felt that our
compass had been dropped into the midst of the sea,
and we were left with the ship of state on our hands
upon a dark, tempestuous ocean. But thanks to Him
who has hitherto shaped our destiny, we are still on
our course, and, though guided by another compass,
we trust it will also be true to the polar star of
Liberty and Union.
The people, likewise, had great confidence in Mr.
Lincoln's honesty. He inherited this virtue from his
boyhood, and brought it to the Presidential Chair.
His early designation was "Honest Abe." This
virtue was so fully constitutional, and so long
habitual, that many thought it would disqualify him
to cope with cunning pohtieians. But it has been
seen that a true, honest purpose is not incompatible
with able statesmanship, and that men can success
fuUy wield the scepter of state without letting
themselves down into the mine of poUtical chicanery.
This virtue was as grateful to the people as it was
rare. There is something, as Mr. Webster says, about
plain honesty in a ruler, that takes wonderfully with
the people. It is this, more than all things else, that
gives us security in our pubUc interests. Who does
not know that every civilized country has suffered
more for the want of honesty than of aUlitij, in their
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to rules, and men of ordinary capacity can succeed in
it. It is not superiority here that we need, as much
as unswerving integrity. We need men of inteUi
gence, to see the right with firmness enough to
maintain it ; discernment, to discover the wrong, with
principle and independence enough to oppose it. We
.need men who can cut off supernumeraries ; keep the
hands of under officers out of the public treasury, and
discharge those who are untrue to their trusts; men
whom others can not approach with a bribe ; before
whom others fear to be dishonest, and who stand
before the whole nation as a personification of
rectitude. Mr. Lincoln has inaugurated a new
dispensation in this respect. Who ever said or
thought he was subtle or tricky ? Who ever felt
he would tolerate such a course in those over whom
he had authority? We are grateful for his rare
example of hojaest purpose.
The people also had confidence in his qagacity to
manage our great national conflict. We sometimes
speak of greatness . in men, as if it always consisted
in making eloquent speeches, in going deep into the
mysteries of science, or in laying up masses of ancient
learning. But greatness often runs in other directions,
and makes other achievements. Men are often great
who are singularly destitute of all these attainments.
That man is great who is so deeply versed in the
practical duties of Ufe as to use men and things so as
to accomplish a great end. He is great who can use
great men at his pleasure ; who can discover their
talents, weaknesses, and sagacity, and shape their
course for a given purpose, and who knows by instinct
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Lincoln had this greatness. It was the greatness of
intuition. His native sagacity taught him what
others obtained by study and observation. Some of
his generals sought to override his judgment because
they had graduated at West Point. But his strong
good sense was better than their science. Jealousy
among our military leaders was our greatest evU.
Campaign after campaign failed on this account, and
Mr. Lincoln was obliged to raise up one and put
down another. It seemed he would not have a friend
left, and yet his removals were always so kind and so
clear in their necessity, that he secured the good wUl
of nearly all.
But the rarest and highest virtue of our fallen
chief was his christian faith. It is rare that we can
speak with so much confidence and satisfaction of a
statesman's religious character. J^he last request on
leaving his fellow-citizens at his nome in Springfield
was," Pray for me." And we have reason to believe that
from that day tiU the day of his death he was himself
a praying man. It has been said by those who knew,
that his first duty in the morning was a season of
devout meditation on the holy scriptures, and a bow
ing at the altar. His last inaugural was a wonderful
production, and indicated a high christian culture.
Some have called it a religious homily. It was rather
the outbreathing of a great statesman's heart, who
dared to recognize the hand of God in the rule of
nations, and to exhort the people to do justly and
love mercy. It came from a mind imbued with the
spirit of the gospel. "Fondly do we hope and
fervently do we pray." " With malice toward none ;
with charity for aU ; with firmness in the right, as
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the work we are in, and to bind up the nation's
wounds." Such were the noble christian sentiments
of our departed chief, which secured love and respect
for him among thousands at home and abroad.
When a company of clergymen called to pay Mr.
Lincoln their respects in the darkest days of our civil
conflict, he said, " Gentlemen, my hope of success in
this great and terrible struggle rests on the immutable
foundations of justice, and the goodness of God ; and
when events are very threatening and prospects are
very dark, I still hope, in some way which man can
not see, aU will be weU in the end, because our cause
is just, and God is on our side." It is said, on the
day of the receipt of the capitulation of Gen. Lee,
the Cabinet meeting was held an hour earlier than
usual. " Neither the President nor any member of
the Cabinet was for the time able to give utterance
to his feelings. At the suggestion of Mr. Lincoln all
dropped on their knees, and offered in silence and in
tears their humble and heartfelt acknowledgments to
the Almighty, for the triumph he had granted to the
national cause." It is in these Uttle incidents, which
speak volumes, that we see the workings of a
christian heart.
" I can never think," says one, " of that toil-worn
man, rising long before the household, and spending
an hour with his Maker and his Bible, without tears.
In that sUent hour of communion he has drawn from
the fountain which has fed aU those qualities that
have so won on our faith and love. Ah, what tears,
what prayers, what aspirations, what lamentations,
Ti^hat struggles have been witnessed by the four walls
of that quiet room. Aye, what food have the angels
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have been sleeping, has he knelt and prayed for us,
prayed for the country, prayed for victory, prayed for
wisdom and guidance, prayed for strength for his
great mission, prayed for the accomplishment of his
great purposes. There has he found consolation in
trial, comfort in defeat and disaster, patience in
reverses, courage in labor, wisdom in perplexity, and
peace in the consciousness of God's approval."* It
was whUe standing by the graves of the heroes of
Gettysburg, who laid down their lives for us, that he
gave his heart to One who had laid down his life for
him. And do we know, my friends, how much of our
success in our late mUitary struggles we owe to the
divine guidance given to our President ? What
confidence, what courage, what love these prayers of
his have inspired in us all ? Our leader, commander-
in-chief, our foremost man in all the nation, like Moses
and David kneeling at the altar, a simple-hearted
child of God. What a new and strange thing for
these latter days ! What a noble example is left on
record for the rising young men of our land !
These are some of the leading features of this
remarkable man who has been taken from us ; and
these features are the more remarkable when we
remember the great deficiency in his early training.
They show an extraordinary mind, and what a true
and honest purpose, with the- blessing of God, can
accomplish for a dUigent man without the advantages
of schools.
" He was a man. take hira all in all,
We shall not look upon his like again."
A late issue of a London paper sums up the
character of Mr. Lincoln in the foUowing language :
* Dr. Holland's address at Springfield, Mass.

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And we take pleasure in presenting it, because it
comes from a source where we should not be Ukely to
find an over-drawn eulogy :
" To us Abraham Lincoln has always seemed the
finest character produced by the American war on
either side of the struggle. He was great not merely
by the force of genius — and only the word genius
mil describe the power of inteUect by which he
guided himself and his country through such a crisis
— but by the simple, natural strength and grandeur
of his character. TaUeyrand once said of a great
American statesman, that without experience he
' divined' his way through any crisis. Mr. Lincoln
thus divined his way through the perUous, exhausting
and unprecedented difficulties which might well have
broken the strength and bliuded the prescience of
the best trained professional statesman. He seemed
to arrive by instinct — by the instinct of a noble,
unselfish and manly nature — at the very ends which
the highest of poUtical genius, the longest of political
experience, could have done no more than reach. He
bore himself fearlessly in danger, calmly in difficulty,
modestly in success. The world was at last beginning
to know how good, and, in the best sense, how great
a man he was. It had long, indeed, learned that he
was as devoid of vanity as of fear, but it had only
just come to know what magnanimity and mercy the
hour of triumph would prove that he possessed.
lieluctant enemies were just beginning to break into
eulogy over his wise and noble clemency, when the
dastard hand of a vile murderer destroyed his noble
and valuable life. We in England have something to
feel ashamed of when we meditate upon the true
greatness of the man so ruthlessly slain. Too many
EngUshmen lent themselves to the vulgar and ignoble
cry which was raised against him. English writers
degraded themselves to the level of the coarsest
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Lincoln. They stooped to criticise a foreign patriot
as a menial might comment on the bearing of a hero.
They sneered at his manners, as if Cromwell was a
Chesterfield; they accused him of ugliness, as if
Mirabeau was a beauty ; they made coarse pleasantry
of his figure, as if Peel was a posture master ; they
were facetious about his dress, as if Cavour was a
D'Orsay ; they were indignant about his jokes, as if
Palmerston never jested. We do not remember any
uistance since the wildest days of British fury against
the ' Corsican Ogre,' in winch a foreign statesman
was ever so dealt with in English writings as Mr.
Lincoln. And when we make the comparison we can
not but remember that while Napoleon was our
unscrupulous enemy, Lincoln was our steady friend.
Assailed by the coarsest attacks on this side the ocean,
tried by the sorest temptations on that, Abraham
Lincoln calmly and steadfastly maintained a policy of
peace with England, and never did a deed, never
wrote or spoke a word, which was unjust or unfriendly
to the British nation. Had such a man died by the
hand of disease in the hour of his triumph, the world
must have mourned for his loss. That he has fallen
by the coward hand of a vile assassin, exasperates
and embitters the grief beyond any power of
language to express." — London Star.
Such at last came to be the estimate which our
friends across the water put upon our cherished
President. Such we beUeve wUl be the final verdict
of the civilized world.
Mr. Lincoln lived to see the last throes of the
rebeUion, and we thank God that, Uke Moses, he was
permitted to see the promised land. He led his
people to the borders, and gazed upon it, and we
prayed he might go over Jordan and possess it. But"^
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He had toUed, and wept, and prayed for his people,
and now the time had come to give his labors into
other hands ; to lay down his armor, and take up his
crown. And we doubt not, while we are clothed in
habiUments of mourning in his behalf; while our
piUars, and pulpits, and rostrums are draped ; while
our minute guns are firing, our flags are at half mast,
and we are pronouncing his eulogies, he is dressed in
the royal robes of his exalted Master, and is joining
the great orchestra of heaven in pseans of victory.
We are weeping, he is rejoicing. We are toUing, he
is resting. We are going toward the grave, he is
receding from it. We are bearing the cross and he
is wearing the crown. Nevertheless we mourn. We
mourn as one friend mourneth for another. We
mourn his loss in our national councils, the loss of his
exceUent example, the loss of his intuitive wisdom
and his experience, and more than all, the manner of
his death. He went into the place of public resort,
not to please himself, but to please the people, and
whUe there, in this act of kindness, a vile hand struck
him down.
While we thus mourn, we are thankful that his sun
went down without a spot upon it. Few public men
die without leaving some record of serious mistakes
or folly. But Mr. Lincoln was a rare exception in
this respect. Not that every act of his, in all its
details, wUl be found to be the wisest possible that
might have been, but no blemish wiU adhere to his
name. His memory wUl shine in ages to come like a
fixed star in a cloudless night, on which contiaents
may gaze with admiration.
As painful as the event of our President's death is
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to us, we think we can see the divine hand in it. It
was necessary that this great, superlative act of
treason, which has cost the North, according to official
statements, two hundred and forty thousand lives,
and the South probably more than that number,
should be shown to the world in its true light ; that
it should make its culmination in such an act as will
stamp its odious character for aU time. It was
necessary to present it right in history, and especially
to arouse public sentiment at the North to mete out
justice to the leading spirits of the rebellion. This
last foul act has opened the eyes of the civUized
world, and led them more fuUy to appreciate the
animus of the crime with which we have been
contending. Our first impressions were that the plot
of assassination was confined to a few fanatics. But
the evidence in trial goes more and more to implicate
the Confederate authorities, and the blame of the act
does not rest so much on the immediate agents in the
plot, as upon those who directly or indirectly
encouraged them. EspeciaUy upon authorities privy
to it, and upon the disloyal press both North and
South. If there are any special criminals in this
work they are the reputed wise men who have talked
treason, and the press which has lent its influence to
slander and blacken the character of the President.
This is the virus which has poisoned poor, unbalanced
minds, and urged them on to their deadly deeds. So
history wUl ever view it. It was Booth who shot the
President; but Booth was educated for the deed.
He had masters who taught and encouraged him, and
who fired up his deadly passions to the work. These
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vUified the Chief of the nation. If a tithe of wl ,
they said was true, it might almost seem that one w.,
doing God's service to remove him. And the nex
great mission which we have to do for our countr;^
will be to check the lawlessness of the press. Letl
men discuss principles as fully and as plainly as they
please ; let them state facts in regard to the pubUc
acts of men; let them not apologize for nor throw
any disguise over official corruption, but let them not
blacken the character of honest and worthy men, so as
to make them appear as monsters. Who does not see
that this is offering a reward to the reckless and
fanatical to cut them off. Who does not see that our
tree of Uberty never can flourish under this constant
girdUng of its trunk.
Turning, from the past to the future, let us be
thankful that we have been carried through the perils
of a gigantic civU war, and have secured a complete
triumph, and not an ignoble peace. We have,
surrendered to us, the last regiment of Confederate
soldiers, and have in our possession the man who,
above aU, is the personification of the rebellion. And
there wiU be strength and firmness enough we trust
in the government to give him his dues. We have
likewise destroyed the causes of the rebellion, by
cutting up the roots of that institution out of which
it grew.
Who would have thought that in so short time all
these portentous war clouds would have passed away,
and the oUve branch of peace would have cast its
shadow on aU our borders ? Who would have thought
that secession would have come to such an inglorious
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to id has brought in the ridiculous to help in giving
wiiousness to the crime ; and it wiU not be strange if
the emblem of secession wUl hereafter be a spurred
,'man, decked with crinoline and halter. "Though hand
join in hand the wicked shaU not go unpunished."
We are thus taught the wisdom and the safety of trust
ing in the right. Though our pathway is dark, and not
a star is seen gleaming through the threatening clouds,
it is safe to press onward in duty. It may cost us dear,
but our reward is sure. '
Let us then learn to prize our government more.
Let us remember what it has done for us in these
tempestuous times. How it has preserved order, and
made our homes sacred amid the confusion of civil
war. Let us cUng more closely to the old ship of
state that has been tempes1>tost so long, but has
finally brought us aU safe into port. Though the old
pilot has been taken from us, let us trust the new.
Let us be wise in adjusting our remaining difficulties,
that we may go forth on our new mission before the
world, — that of carrying the blessing of liberty,
intelligence, enterprise and Christianity to our entire
race. Millions will be allured to our shores by the
virtues of Washington and Lincoln, and help to roll
the tide of civihzation on to the Pacific, whUe the
moral grandeur of our institutions and our victories
wUl command the respect of all the earth.

SMW.

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