IRE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN
GENESEE EVANGELIST.
Ai Religions and Family Newspaper,
IN TER Irrrr 'ST OF INS
Constitutional - PresiJyteria,n Church.
PUBLIBRED EVERY THURSDAY.
AT THE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE,
Oheatnat Street, (2d story,) Philadelphia.
Rev.,Tohn W. Mears, Editor and Pubßother.
Riur. B. B. Hotehitin, Editor of News ,and
Family Departments.
Bet. C. P. Bush, COrreipondine•EqtOr;
Rochester, N. Y. • ;
man ttottOtriait.
THURSDAY, APRIL ;27,,1865.
CONTENTS OF INSIDE PAGES.
SECOND PAGE—THE FAMILY CIRCLE •
The Lord is Risen I—The Covenanter's Marrhig
Day-Child and Cherub he l`rightAilltoll—Olara
Stone—he Solar System The Pinter. of a :Sine
Word—" More Hay"—Legre `no 'Heart lliiwoe'd
The Second Mother. = _
For the Little Folks: Familiar Talks• with the
Children.
THIRD PAGE — MISCELWEOUB:,•
. .
Why Delay ?—A Coward's Estimate of Life—Lu,
ther's Generosity. ' - •
Agricultural: .Making a LaWn—Fruit Garden
' Planting Peas Dew—Blciod for Pear Tees—Tan
hark for Pottitoes. ' • '
SEETMVAGE—CORRESPONDENOE :
Notes of a Preaching Tour in India—The,Worh,
still goingqin Detnlite—a n o'niy Friend Andrevr=The
FuneTai, Bervioes of the President at the First Tres+
bytenan Church—A Permanent Building for the
Young Men's Christian Association in this City—
Holy Anticipations.
SEVENTH PAGE—RELIGIOUS WORLD ABROAD
Great Britain—France—ltaly—Giermany—Boliemia
Missionary.
HUMILIATION AND HOPE.
Since our last issue, the sacred remains
of our martyr President have been borne
through our sorrow-strieken city, with the
most touching and universal expression o
reverence and of grief. All the Sabbath
day, they'most appropriatelylay in the Hal
of Independence, consecrating it afresh
those principles of liberty and equality
which were there adopted as the policy Oi
our country , in its natal hour. Well indeed
was it, that, firdai ihe'holi r t of the arrival
the corpse until near the time of its depar
ture, the sky itself lowered, and the chill
and melancholy winds wailed and sighed
around. the solemn resting place of th!e
illustrios dead. Heavy Were the hearts
the thronging myriads of our loyal cii
which could not forget how of all the chi
cities of the land; out own, all through t]
war, had most steadily and heartily
ported Mr. Lincoln, and the righted
principles he represented. Philadelp
can justly claim 'to be recognized as
Chief-Mourner among the cities, at gi
loincoln'a bier, With hearts lacerated am
at the sight of his mangled body our oii
zens hive , inourned` again on the streets,
their places of business, around their faun
eirolea r and in theit , temples of..worshi)
the great calamity, the horrible crime whit
has laid the honest, thalaithful; the wise]
fish, the patriotic, the.sagacious, , tbe Merei
ful, the God-fearing Abrahaut Lincoln b
0 sad, 0 humiliating hour! 0 afflici
'country! ' 0 averted *face of a eitastis
God ! We seem ,yet tci grope blindly un
•
an overwhelming , sense of the greatness
the stroke. That our day and count
must furnish to history another instant
of those rare and signal crimes, Nyhioh
the astonished and horror-struck gaze of t)
civilized world, bows us to the dust.
feel constrained yet again to ask for
meaning of this signal dispensation, whir
embitters the joy of the grandest
modern victories, which almost evapoi
in its piercing breath the consciousness
a splendid national:deliverance, which seli
upon the ten thousand banners we had flu
exultingly: to the winds, and mockim
turns them into: emblems of an übiqul
woe.
Evidently God means that the joy of ti
nation shall' be sobered We were in da,
ger of an extraordinary development of
vain-glorious temper, which had aim
beeoiLe a besetting sin of the nation
crowning and decisive victories were liki
to have obliterated a wholesome rem(
brance of the humiliating defeats and die
asters of the four long years of delay; and
we might have plunged into boundless de
grees of arrogance and self confidence.
Contemplating the indomitable courage, the
steady and resistless valor of our thoroughly
trained soldiers and sailors, the splendid ge
nius in strategy and in . actual conflict dis
sdayed by our commanders, and the vast re
sources of the nation in the wealth, and con
fidence; and patriotism of the people, yr.
alight have been tempted to new military en
Iterprises, and to the indulgence of a barbit
Tian lust of conquest, and a spirit of audacit •
and vengefulness towards foreign power
ft may be that nothing less than thi
national, woe was sufficient, in the judgmen
of infinite wisdom, to temper the otherwis
dangerous vehemence of our triumph,
neutralize the intoxicating ingredients i
the cup of our success.
We are led to exercise a': more searchin
scrutiny after the- national sins which Go
may, in this unwonted visitation, design t
punish and purge away. It is an ove
whelming thought that. God still has
serious conttaVersy with this nation; th ,
fie is pointing with the mysterioUs finger
his terrible judgments to some act, practic.
policy of the nation grievously offensive
his holiness, and that he will refuse to
reconciled until the Achan -is discovere
and the land purged of its crime. L
each One inquire after the plague of
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wn . heart. Let -each one,feel that this is
searching time: ,Let each one, feel that
!,dja,s9tting his secret sins in the light
f L gis, nountimance,-, and let him, in the
ength of Jesus, resolve-to forsake 'them'
oudly are we warned against countenan
, ing low and deubtful( amusements, ngains
'he-Vices which infest the theatre, and'are
,
O'suie to stain the lives and the doniestic
,
• elations of actors; against all these unnar
urally stimulating circumstances of theatri
cal life, so fitted to train up performers o
tragic and criminal part,,s.i.n, real life. " Oh;
hat dreadful house !" exclaimed Mrs. Lin
coln as she turned away from the scene o
I. e:r husband's murder. , .f We believe - 44 •
i , outh of eur.nation, and the Morals 'of all
classes, will be safer if the• same feeling is
cherished towards every such place of
vdless amusement throughout tlie land.
What ' ; other grave sins is God now re
iuking by this, his terrible judgment? The
- -
ation, in spite of four years' e*perienee,of
fie atrocious untameable spirit of the. slave
ower, has not yet purged itself of 'al
Constitutional connection with the system.
here are professedly loyal: , States,
is,standin g in the way of the ratification
of the Constitutional Amendment, are acting
he pare of Achan in the camp of Israel.
I or their Obstinacy and complicity with a
:Totem which is the crime of the age, and
• hich has sworn to murder ,a free country
n order to perpeteatc its own. existence;
hese States have drawn dciwn :upon,theM
...elves and upon the whole, country, - the
engance of a God of -lustice - , :into ivhOse
-ars has come the cry bftheoppressed;'ar'd
Who has decreed 'the '.dirertfirOW of 'the
iniduity, And as long' as `o'
ion continues, by its laws, to sanction
t God has Cursed, so long , shill We be
danger of such terrible visitations o
ins wrath. As long too,. as - dwading
I irrational distinctions are kept, up> bet
:en the two races in - the North, and th;
'pleat rights are scornfully refused 'an
on . account of his cOlor, so - long may
feel that the cup of our national sorroit
not full. God's controversy with'
ill unsettled. He waitsnoviiri theinter
' of his 'dreadful jedgMimls o for,an arswe . l
II nation humble' itself and forsake
sins, or provoke still further and per
m more' terrible - displays of his. dis-
etisure?
We look for repentance. We cheriel
lively hope that the nation Will movi
tadily forward in the path of mora
'moment on which it hns - entered. Th ,
ud which has fallen Upon us in the
der of our honored Chief-Magistrate
Lll find us, when it lifts and breaks j aws:
more united and determined people to
irdit the sources of •our national woet
in ever. The ' balmy and peaceful spring
fining which o'ercanopied the last houri
the President's repose in 4dependenc(
al, and which softened the gloom 01
removal, were redolent -of immortalit
seemed -the emblem of hope to th:
ton, and the cause for which he fell
•tyr. The lowering skies and inauspici
appearances of nature amid which h:
eyed our city,' are` passed: We are - callec
in to rise-out of 'the dust and ashes o]
sorrows` and, with - souls strengifienec
purified by these new experien9s, tc
iy the man for our country, for liberty
Christ. " HumanitY' and its martyr
oraham Lincoln," will,be the most poten
tchwords of the friends, of liberty for
entury to come.
Sweet friend, past,_preient, and to be,
Loved deeplier; darklier understood;
Behold, I dream, a dream of good,
And mingle all the world with thee.
Thy voice is on the rolling air,
I hear thee Where th 6 waters run;
Thou standest in the rising sun,
And in the'setting thorn art fair.
PRESBYTERY OF WILMINGTON.
This body held its stated meeting in thz•
entral Church, Wilmington, on Tuesday,
ednesday, and Thursday.last. Rev. L. C.
(Arwood was chosen moderator, and Rev.
Messrs. Emerson and Edwards clerks.
eneral prosperity and steady growth char
oterized the history of the year under re
• iew, though the special influences of th•
oly Spirit were not enjoyed in so high.
gree as in the previ2us year. Contribu
inato benevolent objects are, 'on the in,
ease, Those to Home Missions will
any triple the amount reported the pre'
• ding period.,
The Presbytery joined in the solemn
bile services of Wednesday commemora
, e of the death of the President, which
ere attended by a thronged and sorrowful
dience in the Central Church. The
oderator presided, and prayers were of
red by Rev. Messrs. Hamner, Aikman,
d Patton, and addresses were delivered
.Rev. Messrs. Gaylord, Mears, and Hoed.
pmprikate pieces were, sung by the ehoir,
eluding " Unveil thy Beam Faithful
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 27,:.:1865:
omb," to the D,ead, March iii 'gaul, wide
• as:executed with great taste and'feeling
The Presbytery isicarefully looking after
he Home Missionary:interests of its rapidly
mproving field. - - • -
Bev: John 'W. Mears and elder Anthon;
Higgins were eldcted 'delegates to the,
eneral Assembly. •
HE PRESBYTERIAN ALMANAC' FOR
1864.
_
We welcome the appearpee of s this vain
! ble,annualmost
,cotdially, and regret
should,be so late 'in coming - before, the
I .üblie: The statistics -refer to the ,IT'ea.
18631. Mr. Wilson - has'used his customary
iligence in gathering the facts from 11:
Widely-extended 'field, which embraces all
he Presbyterian,bodies on this Continent
andin tbe British Islands. He has no ,
et included the interesting bodies in Am,
stralia in his yearly view, as we hope he
may yet loe led to do. A summary of all
he Presbyterian bodies in the world, in
eluding the Reformed - churches on the con
anent, would add value and interest to this
periodical. While enumerating the defee
q the work„ we are constrained to call at
tention to the.: fact that, of the 350 pages
wrote& to the specific. object of the work,
Iver 200 pages ate appropriated to a single
one 'of the organizations named, leaving no
ess than 13 bodies whose statistics are
•
rowded into the,compass of less than 150
sages In fact; as many - as — eight Presby
-nap : bodies, including the largest and
oldest of our order in existenae are dis
i f osed of in three pages.
These are grave 'deActs. Few who tak
the Almanac but .be interested in
the statistics at least otthe Free and United
resbyterian elfurehes of Seetland'; 'esp
ially as their nrrangenients for union have
.ronght them so toion#nently before the
hristian English Presbyte ,
lan church, of .which I)r,. Hamilton is
istingnished Member, and the Wee/4 Re
riew,"so brilliantly edited by Peter Bayne,
the Wh:l.l=knOwn organ, is not so much'
amed in "this 44 Presbyterian Historical
9,ltpa ßk ics.!'Ee resret that a more ,coin ;
prehensive spirit, has not, been. shown 14
he compiler.
In spite of all objection', however, th
eat value of the Almanac, is a summary
f intelligence upon the Presbyterian
arches of our own country remains. The
ographies f deceased ministers are. very
merous and full, including some individ-
is who had died previous to the year
63. The portraits illustrating many or
ese biographies, and those representin l
e muderators:of the various Assemblic:
nd Synods are of very great artistic beauty
. nd are remarkable for fidelity to the origi.
als. ' Every friend of the Almanac will b
irepared to congratulate Mr. Wilson on the
ecided improvement he has introduced in
his particula7. Among the special articles,
a History of New York Union Theologi
al.Seminary, the second of a series of his
'ries of these institutions, to be continued
om year to year. A full list of the alumni
er given. Mr: Wilson designs giving a
-ry fall tabulated list of the entire Pres•
terian' ministry in our country, a speci
en of vrhieh appears on pp. 375-6, in con•
• dtion with the 4 Synod Of the Reformed
resbiterian Church Of:North America"
he table - includes ' - the name ecclesiastic.
tutus, place, of oollegiate and theological
ducation, by what Presbytery licensed, and
y which ordained, date of ordination, pre
ent Presbyterial connections and pos
office address. We hope the ministry wil
ender Mr. Wilson the necessary aid in
erfecting this list. We also hope they
. 11 encourage him by an extensive and re
munerative patronage. Meanwhile we expec
the publisher to spare no , pes to make his
'Almanac" a thorough and comprehensive
• xhibition of the actual condition of th
• resbyterian church, in all parts at least o
he English r speaking world.
*The Presbyterian Historical Almanac and
nnual Remembrance'.:, of the Church fo
864. By Joseph M. Wilson. Vol. VI.
.yo pp. 402. Philada. Jos. M. Wilson.
WOULD NOT READ IT.—The Mais
husetts Governor, Andrews, is a -Unita
, ian earnest and active as such. On
ecent Sabbath, Rev. Dr. Todd, of Pitts
eld, declined reading his proclamation
or the annual fast, (a customary observ
nee in the. New England States,) say
g that he "would spare his congrega
ion the , pain of listening to a documen
Which, on such an occasion, had no allu
-ion to, or mention of that Name *hith
as the chiefest named in Heaven, tha
I f our only intercessor before the. Father,
nd by which alone salvation came to
ill an."
REY. MR, HAMMII:IND expects to' hal.
services in Clinton St. Church Thursday
Friday, and Saturday of this week.
.'GENERAL BUTLER AGAIN.
For a long time, the more earnest and
conscientious supporters -of the Govern
, I entl in the struggle'with the rebellion'
deheld yin Gen. Butler by far the ablest
expel:relit of -their vfews before the pub ic. The high moral ground which he
nvariablY took in lire sPeeches and in,
his dealings with the rebels of every
shade of disloyalty'who came under hit
jurisdiction, was felt to ,be not only jus
and right; but most -wholesome in its
• ffects upon - public oginion. Gen. Bu .
er's management of affairs in, the cap
ured city' of "New Orleans helped mate
erially tO.educate' the country`to a pro
per apprfoiation'ettlie crime of rebellion,
and prepared 'themto deal righteously
••ith its guilty leaders whenever they
hould fa 1 under the. power of the go
vernment We are glad, therefore, to
aye,hear this voice in the capital at the
. ,
1i °merit, of our triumph proclaiming anew,
, antl,•wlth he same adaptedness to the
eneral :understanding and conscience,
the principles of urialterable justice upon
which — our method's of reconstruction
.:P
n settle ent should be based. We
have debt but thatthey in arib - stanc
t - •
foresliadowi the policy . Which will be
•
adopted ;litthe next Congress, and we
hetefore .reloublish them entire.
[The alio e paragraph written before th •
calamitous z d„:e' th of the President, need no
'-,„ i ~,. „ , Better than
I e modified 9r \ comma.
is I s natiOn • prepared to respond to Gene
4'4 , Butlers= views 'as expressed in this
- pee,C,l%, . And we,..are , sure that it would bn
increase the confidence alr6ady felt , in , Mri
ohnion could a- s tatesman of . Gen eral Bil
er S iineomprtinisuVoliataCter , be 'charge .
with some '
-respopsible Mission in the or •
• • t
of rke,Vistin efalg our dismembered Union.]
Ar,iii
ov te.,NBRAL . . ITPLER, F.-
iattleklYAT TWASHINGTON, APRIL 10TH.
.
-:' Mk* Citizerts:-- - 1 am . profoundly grate
ful'aria.thank`i you once_ and, again; that you
ltave, called-upon me to join you in your con-,
tmtnlitroris - upon this great triumph Of o
arms, which . 'conquers and subjugates finally
a`most heinouS rebellion againtt the Anieri T
can peciPle.. The surrender of Lee and his
army puts an end to this traitorous war, waged
to overtiu r v,the Gnverninent.
' Even now'while the heart turns in grati
tude to God for his kind Providence, while
the soul 'burns witli-44liness at the Jesuit,
Adel"; rightly rindtratcqd, renews the life of
the nation forever; ifew[..viesa - aa ainitraling
i uestions, to be settled in the immediate fa
tare, arise and mingle perforce with our joy.
There are four classes of men in the Rebel
lious States. What shall be done with them
What shall be done with the men educated in
the Military Academy at the public expense,
Worn to protect our flag, obtaining livelihood,
honor, and proniotion under it, the childre
of the nation, who, without justification, ex
use, or palliation, even, betrayed their coun
try, forfeited their honor, struck down the'
ag, used the very knowledge obtained at th :-
nation's school to break down the Govern
ment which nurtured them_, and the nation
which honored them, and have now cease,
an unholy. strife, which has, cost millions of
money,` and hundreds of thousands of lives,
because they have been beaten, conquered,
.nd sublued by the valor of our soldiers,
whose comrades they have starved in loath
•ome prisbn,s. (Cheers and cries of " han .
'vett ,oPe if them ;t hang them; giVe them
the rone.f l )
. In the fufnre the danger to our libertie
n come , only from, the ambitions of _those
in the army, who may conspire again against
the life of the nation. Shall we, not, by
ample, teach every officer who deserts
.1 , g that he shall- suffer the same , Penalt
clesertion.which the Government and th,
s enfbrced upon so many of our soi
or the same crime?
.What be dOne4ith those whom
-nple Noith and South once delightei
honor? „Who, ; with> the oath of God
their lips, but treason in their souls,
ofider Capitol in the seats of law-given
by day, and plotted how to destroy
aountry ; even while, in the name of the
Aitution, they plAimed to sacrifice at the
of her most cherished liberties? Shall
•ver again have the power, or place, of
to destroy their country? (No, no; w
ever.) Shall they ever again be allow(
aye-the loved, honored, and glorious •
eges, now made sacred by the blood of
palTiots shed to save them from acts of
men, that of American citizens? (No, 111
* : itors, hang them.i
The next class, the soldiers in the rai
the rebellion: misled, deceived by false
(( mats arid arguments and prejudices
heir judgments were overborne, consci
•nd d4ven .until their wills were over
*nto the support of the rebellion, but
•ven in a bad cause, have illustrate(
valor of the American race ; are we not
to say to them ; Father, forgive
hey know not what they do," and to xi
them again as brothers of us and with
" That's it !" "Good I" " Good !" " That's
the talk.")
Still another class. =Those at the South
who have ever welcomed the flag with shout
of gladness, who have never failed to rejoice
in Union victory, who have never lost faith
in the Union cause, who always have con
ealed, fed, and cared for the Union prisoner
s• oaping from the cold, sickness, starvation,
rid death of Libby and Andersonville, guid
'ng them faithfully by the North Star through
swamp and : &rest to liberty and life ; who
have joyfully taken, up arms with us;and , laid
own theidives in. our cause; who were the
first to enter Riehmond, the true Union me
.f the South. (Cheers.) What shall we say
to them ? F Shall we not say liberty and
• qnality. r of right , under the laws forever?
(Yes, yes, and 'cheers ; good, good) then we
re agreed; condign punishment to the
miii
ry traitor who deserts his flag for rebellidn,
distiranchiSement and safe_ keeping for the i
civilian using his perjured place to betray his.
Ountry ; the right hand of fellowship;for the
iiisguided and deceived victims of the rebel"
lion, and equal rightsfor the black man under
the law. (Cries "Agreed, agreed, agreed.")`'
I 'add that will !b. (Criei, "Go
Genesee Evangelist, No. 988.
In, go on.") Let us also be thankful to the
ood God that while' this war has cost s.
uch treasure and blood, it has so estabhshed
. fl e power among the nations of the eart
hat the shedding"= of American blood upo
merican soil may now cease forever ' and in
pur dealings with the nations , of the earth we
• n adopt, without far of war,, the motto la
Jackson, " ask - nothing but what is right,
nd•SubmA to nothing thhtis wrong." (Good,
ood.) ,
ROM OUR CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
,can we write this'lveek of any, thing
-Jae but the great national I)eretyvewent?
hisitthe one thing on every,mind ; thi
•n every lip; this down deep in every
earn We hive other news—Mobile cap
nred, Montgomery, Salisbury, and the like
and a feW days ago should have re
eived such intelljgence with the boom Rif
annon, and the clangor of bells; but no
e have noi, appetite, for rejoicing. The
family mansion has been invaded.; the head
if the household has been, stricken down
the hand of the assassin upon his own
hearth-stone; and now the house is dark
- ned, and the' children weep in silence.
"uch a day of sorrow' as last Saturday wa
+ Tier before known in' all this region.
In'accordance with the proolamatien of on
mayor, a• eeting of citizens was gathered a+
ur court-house on Saturday afternoon, th.
ay of the President's death, which was elo
uently addressed. by Rev.. Dr. -Robinson
;Judge Claimasein, and Frederick Douglass i
hellitternforcibli expressed' the ...though'
which hia "trunk spontaneously in,
orminda;iitiying to findone the leeson
intended by this awful event."
"Only the other dny, it seemed as it
o on were in danger of loSing a just appre
iffion of .the awful "crime cf.this rebellion:
We were.manifesting almost as much grad-,
tulle to General Lee for surrendering as t.
General Grant for compelling him to surren
.er (Cheers .. .) It'seemed to me that Gen
- ral was about the most poptdar man in
America. (Applause • and laughter.) The
rimes of treason and slaverf were, beinl
apidly forgotten,, and we talked of amnesty
•nd oblivion in behalf of men whose hands
re red with the best blood of the land.
(Loud cheers . .) Republics have proverbially
*orfmemories. I was afraid the American
g9.9!ewere t growing,week, It 1114Yb,eji th ,
int crattgaiiilAbOof controls' tli
• eetiniei of nations, that'this &awing of 11.:.
nation's most prepious':. heart's 'blood was: ne
essaxy' to king us:back to .that equilibrium
which we must maintain if the Republic wa
to be pertnanently redeethed. (Applause.)"
We venture nothing in saying that tha
-entiment is well nigh universal. It ha:
been in; - almost every speech, every, " lead
•r," every conversation. We were letting
the rebellion down;too easily. We were
danger of forgetting that treason is a crime.
We were forgetting with what horrible,
unprecedented barbarity this particala
treason has been I:lrosecuted. We had
almost ceased to hear the last despair/3:P
death-vrail of 50,000 starved Union soldier
at Salisbury and Columbia and Anderson-
Is there no; one to be held responsibl:
or such atrocities, soy deliberate, so long
ltinued, so well known, so mercilessly
sated upon- successive squadi of poor
•rtunate captiveSl Did not Jeff. Davis
ow it:all, and did . , he not choose just s
ill bis captives by the slow and horrible
less of,starvation? ,Could not Bober
Lee, the gentlemanly, the noble,
chivalric; the Christian comma
-in-chief. of the s rebel: armies, have
:red the proper treatment of our
L, if he chose to do so? But he L
:ed; he is on parole,- protected, saluted
waving banners - in the hands of• officer
the Union army! While 30,000 of ou
, e boys are buried at Andersenville,
100 at . Danville, and 10,000 at Rich
id, half of them, probably, victims of
deliberate, systematic, atrocious cruelty
;deed upon them after they were.un
ied. and helpless in the hands of their
Imias. .
Was it no. crime to kill them; and yet
;.h crime to , assassinate our Presideni.
; death was easy; it was translation •
~ a s 'glory; theirs was refined torture,
writhing agony, raving madness, blan
espair, a thousand deaths in every
I ne. How much better is it, thus
to torture a fallen foe, than boldly ;
,hoot down a supposed enemy in a public.
heatre ? What right mind is not corn-
I elled to pronounce the treatment of our
aptive soldiers a meaner crime, more das
;£rdly, more atrocious in its relations, tha,
the - assassination of the President; while
both alike aimed at the, heart of the nation,
d each was intended as a fatal blow,
ossible, to, our , glorious ; republic.
We were almost forgetting these lony
.rawn out, and almost countless murders of
ntold agony; but Wilkes Booth has oni
o brandish his shining blade, -and he cal
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and asking us with ,their mute tongues if
we will receive "back with waving banners,
and unwhipt of justice, their murderers,
and the would-be assassins of the nation.
The words of ANDREW JOHNSON, our
new President, find a universal response
in Western New York. " Treason is a
crime to be punished, not pardoned;" or,
as he said, in substance, on another occa
-sion, clemency to the :deluded followers,
but justice for the insane leaders—this is
the lesson - which Bootli has effectually
taught us, and which, has found an earnest
• cho in every speech. from a radical, or
conservative in this part of the land.
"We say here to-day"—these are the
words of Rev. Dr. Robinson, of this city,
'delivered on Wednesday, in the presence
of ten thousand citizens : "and I call on
you, in view of those mute lips, and that
swollen brow, lying cold in death, I call on
.ou, as Andrew Johnson takes the place of
power, to say,'to treason at the South, and
treason at the North, and treason every
wher9,_ and by whomsoever spoken, thou
oast come so far, but by the eternal Law,
thOu shalt go no further." And again, he
said—" By the memory of the glorious
dead, and in view Of the distant future, to
which we shall transmit this vast inherit
nee; let the nation stand by and defend the
dnkin istration of Andrew Johnson. * * *
To:day, we say; that as we love our coun
try, as we love humanity , as we hold that
traitors should be punished to the-extreme
1" if, that justice, and law require; so -vire
say; .we will 'work, and pray, and fight:on,
• d die, if need be, to maintaincthoGovern
ment for which Abraham Lincoln .wave-his
life, and which God 164 s sacredly committed
•
to our Care.
But we are not giving the news of the
Chnrches. We have none. We have
known but one event for the past week.
Asiin other cities, we were appalled by the
first intelligence. All day Saturday was
given up to sorrow. Business was sus
pended,..stores •closed, and the mourners
went about our streets.
On Sunday, Dr. Shaw was to exchange
With Dr. Heacock, of Buffalo, but by tele
graph the exchange was postponed, and
Dr. Shaw-preached in his own church, both
. and evening, upon the national
bereavement. Dr. _Heacock did not at
tempt_to preach, as he was suffering from a
severe: cold; but with the assistance of
Rev. C. E. Furman in the morning, and
Rev. Dr. Lord, and Rev. Mr. Plumb',
if ChelSea, Massachusetts, in the evening,
the time was filled up with short addresses
and prayer, very much to the edification of
the people. They were deeply solemn and
interesting occasions.
In the morning of the Sabbath, Rev. Dr.
Lord also preached in his own pulpit, from
the words, "The Lord reigneth," a most
solemn and appropriate sermon, which was
next day published in full in the Buffalo
Commercial Advertiser. The ground taken
in this sermon is all that the most intense
anti-slavery unionist could desire—it is
thlough, loyal, radical, for sustaining the
Government at all, hazards, and punishing
raitors according to their crimes,,
On Wednwlay of this week, we too,
buried the President. Funeral - services
were held at 12 o'clock, M., in most of the
linrches. Dr: Shaw's was crowded, hun
dreds staining; the Central and Brick
• hiirches united. Addresses were made
by Rev. C. P. Bush and Dr. Shaw. Dr.
Robinson preached in the. Second Baptist
Church, from the words, " Know ye not
that a prince and a great man has fallen."
His discourse was also published'in the
Evening %Express. Rev. D. K. Bartlett
:is° preached in the Plymouth Church, a
sermon which excited great interest in those
Who heard it, and that too is considered
• orthy of a place in the evening papers.
At two o'clock an immense procession
-as formed and marched through some of
iur streets. At four o'clock they halted
n front of a large platform, erected upon
the steps of the Court House, and listened
addresses by Roswell Hart, Esq., DI. C.,
nd Rev. Dr. Robinson. It is thought that
wenty 2 five thousand persons thronged our
streets, and participated more or less in the
neral obsequies.
So we kept the day. So a nation weeps.
But, so sure as God is on his throne, will
ebellion rue the day it struck down our
oble President. C. P. B.
ROCHESTER, April 22, 1865.
THE MINT IN FUNERAL DRAPERY.-
Mr. J. W. Hum, 1319 Cuestnut street,
has this week brought out a superior
specimen of the photographic art—a
large and beautifully taken picture of the
front portico of the U. Mint, in the
profuse and exquisitely be drapery
which now covers it. It will be an ac
ceptable,memorial of the solemnities' of
the week. '