8
l Continued from U18 First rage.
Amnricahad chosen for bor chiof: tuoy leered at
"bis lure bonds, and long toot, and uurinly
stature; and the British 8eorjtary of Htaie lor
Forolm Atlairs mart? ha(e to Rend word through
the palnces ot Europe that the (treat Repubiio
vu in its agony, that the Republic was no more,
that a head-mono was all that remained due by
the law of nations to "the late Union." Hut it is
written, "Let the dead bury tb"ir dead:" they
may not bury the living. Let the dead bury
their dead: let a bill of reform remove tho worn
out government of a clan, and inline new Ire
into the British Constitution by confiding right
iul power to the people.
ms policy.
But wnilo the vitality of America Is indestruc
tible, the liritiaii Government hurried to do whut
never before had been done by Chriatiun poweri,
what wu8 in direct conflict with, its own exposi
tion of puolic lav in the time of our strujgle for
independence. Thouph t!ie insurgent States had
not a ship in an open harbor, it invested them
with all the right of a belligerent, even on the
ocean; and this, too, when tho Rebellion was
not only directed ueuinst tno geutlest and most
beneficent Government on earrh, without a
nhauow of justitinblo enure, but when tho Rebel
lion was directed against human nature it-ult
for the perpetual enslavement of a race. And
the effect ot this lecogui'ion ws that acts in
theiniclvcs piratical ionnd shelter in British
courts of law.The resources of liritish capitalists,
their workshops, their armories, their private
arsenals, their shipyards were in league with
the insurtrents, and every Biitish harbor in the
"wlda world became a safe port lor liritish phins,
manned by British sailors, and armed with Bri
tish guns, to prey on our peticclul commerce:
even on our ships coming, from liritish prW,
Iriightcd with Bntiflh psoducts, or that had car
ried gilts ot grain to tue Dual ah poor. The
Prime Minuter in tho House ot Commons, sus
tained by cheers, ecotted at the thought that
iheir laws could bo amended at our request, so
iVs to proerve real neutrality; and to remon
fdrancos, now c-wneil to have been just, their
Hecretr.r ftiiswi'i dittnpypo.ulcl not cnaiye
their laws, ad infinitum.
KETATIONS WITH ENGLAKD.
Tho people of America then winded, as they
always havo wished, as they still wi?, TiSU....','
relations with England; and no man in England
or America can desire it more strongly than I.
This country has always yearned for good rela
tions with fcuglaud. thrice only in all its his
tory has that, earning beeu fairly met; in the
days of Hampden and Cromwell, again in the
lirst ministry of the elder Pitt, and once asruiii in
the ministry of Shclburne. .Not that there have
not at all limes been inst men among the peers
ot Uritain like Halifax In the daysoi James the
Second, or a Granville, au Argyll,' or a Houghton
in ours; and wo cannot bo indifferent to a coun
try that produces statesmen like Cobdon and
Jlright; but the best bower-anchor of peace was
the working class of Kngland, who suffered most
from our civil war, but who, while they broke
their diminished bread iu sorrow, always en
couraged us to persevere.
FRANCE AND THE MONROE DOCTBINE.
The act ol recognizing tho Tibcl belligerents
was concerted with France France, so beloved
in America, on -which she had conferred tha
greatest benefits that one people ever con
ferred on another; France, which stands fore
most on the continent ot Europe for tho so
lidity of her culture, as well as for the bravery
and flcnerqus impulses ot her eons; France,
Vhicn for centuries bad been moving steadily
in its own way towards intellectual and political
freedom. The policy regarding further coloni
zation of America by European powers, known
commonly ns the doctrine ot Monroe, had its
origin in France; and if it takeu any man's
name, should bear the name of Turcot. It was
adopted by Louis the Sixteenth, in the Cabinet
of which Vergennes was the most important
member. It is emphatically the policy of
France; to which, with transient deviations, the
Bourbons, the First Napoleon, tho House of
Orleans have ever adhered.
THE EMPEKOB NArOLEON AND MEXICO.
The late President was perpetually harassed
by rumors that the Emperor N'upoleoii the Third
desired iormally to recognize the States in re
bellion as an independent power, and that
"England held lum buck by her reluctance, or
Frauce by her traditions of freedom, or he him
self by his own better judgment and clear per
ception of events. But the republic of Mexico,
on our borders, was, like ourselves, distracted
by a rebellion, and trnin a similar cause. The
monarchy of England had fastened upon us
slavery, which did not disappear with indepen
dence; in like manner, the ecclesiastical policy
established by the Spanish Council of the Indies,
in the days of Cliarlesjthe Fifth and Philip the
Second, retained its vigor in the Mexican republc.
The tilty years of civil war under which she had
languished was duo to the bigoted system
which was the legacy of monarchy, just as hero
the inheritance of slavery kept alive political
Btrile, and culminated in civil war. As with us
there could be no quiet but through the end of
slavery, bo in Mexico there could be no pros
perity until tho crushing tyranny of iulolerauce
should cease. The party of slavery in the United
States sent their emissaries to Europe to solicit
aid; and so did the party of the Church iu
Mexico, as organized by the old Spanish Council
of the Indies, but wltii a different result. Just
as the Republican party hnd made an end ot the
rebellion, and was establishing the best govern
ment ever known in that region, and giving
promise to tue nation of order peace, anil pros
perity, word wae broueht us in the momeut
of our deepest affliction, that the French
Emperor, moved by a desire to erect in North
America a buttress for imperialism, would trans
form the Republic ol Mexico into a secundo
geniture" for the House of Hapsburgh. America
might complain ; sue could not then interpose,
and delay seemed justifiable. It was seen that
Mexico could not, with nil its wealth of land,
v,xjLAijiivj iu vt-Airuij jnuuuv IO tt it. ii vui iwi iun V,
nor, in tropical products, with Cuba; nor could
it, under a disputed dynasty, attract capital or
create public work, or develop mines, or borrow
roonev : so that the imnerial system of Mexico.
which was forced at once to recognize the
wisdom ol the policy of the republic Dy adopt
ing it, coma prove only an umemuneratiug
drain on the French Treasury for the support of
an Austrian auvKiiiurer.
THE rEBPETCITT OP KEPUBUCAN INSTITUTIONS.
Meantime, a new series of momentous ques
tions grow up, and force themselves on the
consideration ol tho thoughtful. Republi
canism has learned how to introduce into its
cocstitution every element of order, as well as
every clement of freedom; but thus far the
continuity of its Government has seemed to
denend on the continuity of elections. It is now
to be considered how perpetuity is to bo secured
against toreign occupntijn. The successor
ot Charles the First of England dated his
reign trom the death of bis father; the Bour
bons, coming back after a long eerie a of revolu
tions, claimed that the Louis who bocsme king
was the eighteenth of that name. Tho present
Emperor of the French, disdaining a title from,
election Alone, is called the third of his name.
Shall a repubiio have less power of continuance
when invadine armies prevent a peaceful resort
to the ballot-box? What force shall it attach to
intervening legislation? What validity to debts
contracted for its overthrow? These momen
tous questions bto by the invasion of Mexico
thrown up for solution. A free State once truly
constituted should be as undying as its people;
tho repumic 01 mexico must rise again.
THE POPE OP ROME AND TUE .REBELLION.
It was the condition of affairs in Mexico that
Involved the Pope ot Home in our difficulties so
far that he alone among temporal sovereigns
recognized the chief of the Confederate States
m a President, and his supporter as a neonle:
and in letters to two great prelates of the Catho
lic Church in the United States gave couusols
for neiire. at a time when peace meant the vic
tory ot secession. Yet events move as they are
ordered. The blessing of the Pope at Rome on
the head of Duke Maximilian could not revive
in the nineteeth century the ecclesiastical
policy ol the sixteenth; and the result is only a
new proof that there can be no prosperity In tue
ittttte wiiflouv rengiouB.irccuom,
THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 180G.
TUB PEOPLE OF AMERICA.
When It came home to the consciousness of
tho Amerit ans that the war which they were
waging was a war for the liberty of all tne na
tions of the world, for freedom ifeif, they
thanked Gtd for the severity of tho trial to
which He pnt their sincerity, and nerved them
selves lor their duty with an inexorable will.
The President was led along by the greatness of
their seU-sacriflcing example; and as a child, in
a dark night on a rugeed wav, cstches hold of
the hand of its father lor guidance and ouoport.
he clung Inst to the hand ot tho people, and
moved calmly through the gloom. While the
statesmanship of Europe was scoffing at the
hopelefs vsnity of their efforts, they put forth
such miracles ol energy as the lilsdory ot th3
world had never known. Tho nnvy of the
United States drawing into the public service
the willing militia of the seas, doubled its ton
nnge in eight months, and established an actual
blocked irom Cape Ilarteros to the Rio Grande;
In the course of tho war it was incroasod five
told in men land Jin tonnage, whilo the inven
tive penius cf the country devised more effective
kinds of ordnance, and new fnrtn-i of naval
Architecture in wood and iron. There went into
the tick), for various terms ot service, about two
million men; and in March last the men in ser
vice exceeded n million; that is to say, one of
every two able-bodied men took some part In the
war; and at one timo every fourth able-bodied
man wns in the fieM. fn one s'ugle. month, one
hundred and sixty-five thousand wero recruited
into service. Once, within four weens, Ohio
organized and placed in the fleld forty-two regi
ments of irifanliy nearly thiri,v-six thousand
it en; and Ohio was like other States in tho East
end in the West. Tne well-mounted cavalry
numbered eighty-four thousand; of borees there
were iioui bt, fir'sl tind lest, two-thirds of a mil
lion. In the movements ot troops science camo
in anl ol'pitTiotism; so that, to choose a single
instance out of many, an army twenty three
thousard strong, wit li its artillery, trams, bag
gage, and animals, were moved by rail from the
Potomac to the Tennessee, twelve hundred
miles, in seven days. In the long marches
wonders of military construction bridged the
rivers; and v.henccr an army baited, amnio
supplies avraited tlieni at their evcr-cliangine
base; the vile thought that life is tho greu'est
of blessings did not rle up. In six hundred
aiui tweutv-five battles and severe skirmishes
blood (lowed like wutc". It streamed over the
grassy plains; it statue;! the rocks; the under
growth of the forests wai red with it; end the
armies marched on w ith tnajostic courage IVCTO
one conflict to another, knowinc that they were
fighting for God and liberty. The organization
ot the medical department met its infinitely
multiplied duties with exactness and despatch.
At the news of a battle tho best surgeons
of our cities hastened to the held, to offer
the zealous aid of the createst experience
and bkill. The gentlest and most refined
of women left homes of laxury and ease,
to build hospital tents near the armies, and
serve as nurses to tho sick and dying. Besides
the large supply ot religious teachers by tho
Dnblic, the congregations spared to their bro
thers in tho field tiie ablest ministers The
Christian Commission, which expended live and
a halt millions, sent four thousand clergymen,
chosen out of the best, to keep unsoiied the
religious character of the men, and made gilts
ot clothes and food nnd medicine. The organi
zation of private charity assumed unueard-of
dimensions. The Sanitary Commission, which
had seven thousand societies, distributed, under
the direction of an unpaid board, spontaneous
contributions to the amount of fifteen millions,
in supplies of money a million and a half in
money from California alone and dotted the
scene o' war wom ranucan to rorx noyai, irom
Belle Plain, Virginia, to Brownsville, Texas,
with homes and lodge?.
Tna EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
The country had for its allies the river Missis
sippi, which would not be divided, and the
range of mounta'ns which carried the stronghold
of the free through Western Virginia and Ken
tucky and Tennessee to the highlands of Ala
bama, nut it invoked tno sun ntgner power ot
immortal justice. Iu ancient Greece, where ser
vitude was the univti'Bal custom, it was hold that
if a child were to Btrike its parent, the slave
should defend the parcut and by that act re
cover his freedom. . After vain resistance, Lin
coln, who had tried to solve the question by
gradual emancipation, ' by colonization, and by
compensation, at lost saw that slavery must ba
abolished, or the Republic must die: and on the
tirsidavof January, 1803, he wrote liberty on the
banners of the armie3. When this proclamation,
which struck the fetters from three millions of
slaves, reached Europe, Lord Russell, a country
man ot Milton and Wlloerforce, eagerly put him
self forward to speak of it in the name of man
kind, saving, "It is of a very strange nature;"
"a measure ot w ar ol a very questionable Kind.;"
"an act ot vengeance on the slave owner," that
does no more than "profess to emancipate slaves
where the United Stites authorities cannot make
emancipation a reality." Now there was no part of
the country embraced in the proclamation where
the United States could not and did not make
emancipation a reality. Those who sawLlucolu
most frequently had never before heard him
speak witn bitterness ot any numan Demg; bat
he did not conceal how keenly he lelt that he
had been wronged by Lord RusjcII. And he
wrote, in reply to another caviller: "The eman
cipation policy, and the use of colored troops,
were the greatest blows yet dealt to the Rebel
lion. The job was a great national one; and let
none be Flic fired who bore an honorable-part in
it. I hope peace will come soon, and come to
stay; then will there be some black men who
caii remember that they have helped mankind to
this great consummation."
RUSSIA AND OniNA.
The proclamation accomplished Its end, for,
during the war, our armies came into military
possession of every State in rebellion. Then,
too, was called forth the new power that comes
from the simultaneous diffusion ot thousht and
feeling among the nations of mankind. The
mysterious sympathy ot the millions tnrougnout
the world was given spontaneously. The best
writers of Europe waked the conscience of the
thoughtiul, till the intelligent moral sentiment
ot the Old World was drawn to the
side of the unlettered statesman of the. West.
Russia, whose Emperor had iist accom
tilishcd one of the grandest acts in the course
01 time, oy raising twenty millions oi Dona-
nieu into freeholders, and thus assuring the
growth and culture of the Russian people, re
mained our unwavering lriend. From the
oldest abode of civilization, which crave the
first example of an imperial government with
equality among the people, Prince Kung, the
Secretary ol State tor Foreign Affairs, remem
bered the saying ot conlucius, thu we should
not do to others what we would not that others
should do to us. and lu the name ot the Em
peror of China closed its ports against the
war ships ana privnuers oi -tne seditious. -
CONTINUANCE OP THE WAB.
The war continued, with all the peoples of the
world tor anxious spectators. Its cares weighed
heavily on Lincoln, and his face was-ploughed
with the furrows ol mougut ana sadness, witn
malice towards none, free from the spirit Of r
vense, victory made him importunate tor peace;
and bis enemies never ajuuvea nis wora, or ae
spaired of his abounding clemency. He longed
to utter pardon us the word for all, but not unless
the freecoui of the negro shguWbe assurd. The
grand battles ol Mul Spring, wnicn gave us Nash
ville, ot Fort Donels-ui. Malvern Hill, Antietam.
Gettysburg, the Wilderness of Virginia, Winches
ter, Nushville, the capture of New Orleans, Vicks-
uurg, fliohile, l ort D lsuer, vue marcn nom
Atlanta, and the cunturo ot Savannah and
Charleston, aH foretold the issue. Still more, tho
self-regeneration of Missouri, the heart of the
continent; ot AlurUand, whose 6ons never heard
the midnight bells thime so sweetly as when
they raiia out tu eurth and heaven that, by the
voice of her own people, she took her place
among the free; of Teunessee, which passed
throuah tire and blood, through sorrows and tho
shadow of death, to work out her own deliver
ance, and by the faithfulness of her own sons to
renew her youth like the eaele proved that vic
tory was deserved and woiill bo worth all that it
cost. If words of mercy uttered as they were by
Lincoln on the waters of Virginia, were defiantly
repelled, the armies ot the country, moving with
one will, went as the arrow to IU mark, and
wtihont a feeling of revenge struck a death-blow
at rebellion.
LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION.
Where, In the history of nations, had a Chief
Magistral o possessed moro sources of consola
tion and joy than Lincoln? His countrymen
had rhown their love bv choosing him to a
tecond term ot service, thu raging war that
had divided the country had lulled, and private
ericf was hushed by the grandeur ot Its results.
The nation had its new hlrth of freedom, soon
to I e secured lore vcr by an amendment of the
Constitution. His peTstetent gentleness had con
quered lor him a kindlier feeling on the part ot
tlietouth. His scoffers among the erandeos of
EuroDe bean to do him honor. The laboring
clnsscs everywhere saw In his advancement their
own. All peoples sent Lim their benedictions.
And at the moment of tho height of his fame, to
which his humility and modesty added charms,
be tell by the hand ot tho assassin; and the only
triumph awarded him was the march to the
grave.
THE GREATNESS OP MAN.
: This Is no time to say that human glory is but
dust and ashes, that wo mortals are no moro
than shadows in pursuit of shadows. How mean
a thing were man, if there were not that within
him which is h'gher than himself if he could
not master the illusions of sense, and discern
the connections of events by a superior light
w hich comes from God J He so shares the di
vine Impulses that he has powor to subject
intereptcd passions to lovo ot country, and
personal ambition to the ennoblement of
man. Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he
has heiped to make this republic an example of
JuBtice, with no caste but (he caste of humanity.
The heroes who led our ainiies and ships into
battlc-Lyon, Mcl'hcrson, Reynold, Sedgwiclr,
Wadtworth, l'oote, and Ward, with their com
peers and fell iu tho service, did not die in
vain; they and tho myriads of nameless martvrs,
and he, the chief martyr, died willingly "that
government of the people, by the people, and
lor the people, shall not perish from the earth."
THE JUST DIED FOR TnB TTNJCBT.
The assaesination of Lincolu. who was ho free
from malice, has by some mysterious influence
struck the country vilth solemn awe,and hushed,
instead ot exciting, the passion for revenge. It
teems as it the just had died for the unjust.
When I think of the friends I have lost In this
war and every one who hears mo has, liko my
self, lost those whom he most loved there is no
cotisolntion to be deiived from victims on the
fcuilold, or from anything but the established
vuion. of the regenerated nation,
CHARACTER 6P LINCOLN.
In his character. Lincoln was throusrh. and
through an American. He is tho first native of
the region west of the Alleghenics to attain to
the highest station; and how happy it is that the
man w ho was brought forward as tiie natural out
ptowth and fir3t fruits of that region, should havo
been ot unblemished purity in private luo, a good
son, a kind husband, a most affectionate father,
and, as a mau, so gentle to all. As to integrity,
Douglas, his rival, said of him, "Lincoln is tho
honestest n an I ever knew."
The hub ts of his mind were those of medita
tion and inword thought, rather than of action,
lie excelled in logical statement, more than in
executive ability. He reasoned clearly, his re-
ncct:ve uiopment was good, and his purposes
were fixed; but. like tho "Hamlet" of his only
poet, bis w ill was tardy in action; and for this
reason, and not trom humility or tenderness ot
feeling, he sometimes deplored that the duty
which devolved on nun had not fallen to tne
lot of another. He was skilful in analysis;
discerned with precision tho central idea on
which a ciuestion turned, and knew now to dis
engage it and present it by itself in a lew
homely, strong old English words that would be
intelligible to all. He delighted to express his
opinions by apothegm, illustrate them by a
parable, or drive them home by a etory.
ijincoin gainea a name oy discussing questions
which, of all others, mosf easily lead to fanati
cism; but he was never carried away by enthu
siastic zeal, never indulged in extravaaant lan
gufige, never hurried to support extreme mea
sures, never allowed himself to be controlled by
sudden Impulses. During the progress of the
election nt which hp was chosen President, he
expressed no opinion that went beyond the Jef-
terson proviso oi ibui. Lake jetierson and
Lafayette, he had faith in the intuitious of tho
people, and read those intuitions with rare
sagacity. He knew how to bide his time, and was
less apt to be in advance of public opinion than
to laer behind. He never sought to electrify the
public by takimr an advanced position with a
bauner of opinion ; but rather studied to move
forward compactly, exposing no detachment in
front or rear; so that the course of his Adminis-
ration might have been explained as the calcu
lating policy of a shrewd and watchful politi
cian, bad there not been seen behlud it a fixed
ness of principle which from the first deter
mined his purpose and grew more intense with
every year, consuming his lite by its energy.
Yet his sensibilities were not acute, he had no
vividness of imagination 'to picture to his maid
the horrors ot the battle-field or the sufferings
in hospitals; his conscience was more tender
tbnn his teelings. .
Lincoln was one of the most nnassuming of
men. In time of success, he gave credit for it to
tnose whom he employed, to the people, and to
the providence of God. He did not know what
ostentation is; when he became Presidetit he' was
rather saddened than elated, and his conduct
and manners showed more than ever his belief
that all men are boi n equal. He was no respecter
ol persons; and neither rank, nor reputation,
nor services overawed him. In Judging of char
acter he failed in discrimination, and his ap
pointments were sometimes bad; but he readily
(leierred to public opinion, and in appointing the
head ot the armies he followed the manifest pre
ference of Coneicss.
A good President will secure unity to his ad
ministration by his own supetvision of the vari
ous departments. Lincoln, who accepted ad
vice readily, was never governed by any member
of his Cabinet, and could not be moved from a
purpose deliberately formed; but his supervision
of affairs was unsteady and incomplete; and
sometimes, by. a sudden interference transcend
ing the usual formB, he rather confused than
advanced the public business. If he ever failed
in the scrupulous rceard due to the relative
rights of Congress, it was so evidently without
design that no conflict could ensue or evil prece
dent be established. Truth he would receive from
any one; but, when impressed by others, he did
not use their opinions till, by reflection, he had
made them thoroughly his own.
It waa the nature of Lincoln to forgive. When
hostilities ceased, he who had always sent forth
the flag with every one of its stars in the field,
was eager to receive back his returning country
men, aud meditated "some new announcement
to the South." The amendment ot the Constitu
tion abolishing slavery had his most earnest and
unwearied support. During the aage of war we
..el a glimpse into uis "oui irom nis pnvateiy
fcuggcstmg to Louisiana that "in defining the
franchise some of the colored people might be
let in," saying: "They would probably help, in
some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of
liberty in' the family of freedom." In 1857
hefavowed himself "liot in favor of'what he
improperly called "negro citizenship;" for the
Constitution discriminates between citizens and
electors. Th-ee days before his death he de
clared his preference that "the elective franchise
were now conferred on the very intelligent of
the "colored men. and on those of them who
served our cause as soldiers;" but he wished it
done, by the States themselves, and he never
harbored the thought of exacting tt from a new
Government as a condition of its recognition.
The last (lav of his life beamed with sunshine,
as he sent by the Speaker of this House his
friendly greetings to the men of the Rocky
Mountains and the Pacific slope; as he contem
plated the return of hundreds of thousands of
soldiers to fruitful industry; as he welcomed in
advance hundreds ot thousands of emigrants
fioni Europe; as his eve kindled with enthusiasm
at the coining wealth of the nation. And so,
with these thoughts for his country, he was re
moved trom the toils and temptations of this
life, and was at peace. -
PALMERSTON AND LINCOLN.
Hardly had the late President been consigned
to the grave, when the prime minister of Eng
land died, lull of years aud honors. Paliueietou
traced his lineage to the tune of the C3nqneror;
Lincoln went back only to his grand ather.
lalmerston received his education from the best
schohirs of Harrow, Edinburgh, and Cambridge;
Lincoln's early teachers were the silent forest,
the prairie, tiie river, and the stars. Palmcrston
was in public life for sixty years; Lincoln for
but a tenth of that time. Palmers ton was a
ekillul guide of an established aristocracy; Lin
coln a leader or rather a companion of the peo
ple. Palmcrston was exclusively an Englishman,
and made his boast in tho Honne of Com
mons that the interest of England was his
shibboleth; Lincoln thought always of man
kind as well as hi own country, and served
human nature itself. Palmcrs'on, from his
narrowneps as an Englishman,' did net endear
his country to any one court or to any one
people, but rather caused uneasmoog and dis
like; Lincoln left America more beloved than
ever bv all the peopb s of Europe. Palmcrston
was self-possessed and adroit In reconciling the
confhet-ng claims of the tactions of tho aristo
cracy: Lincoln, frank nnd'mgonuous kne v hew
to poise himself upon the conflicting opinion of
the people. Palmcrston was capable ot inso
lence towards tho weak, quick to the sense of
honor, not heedful of riuht; Lincoln rejected
counsel given only as a mattr of policy, and
was not capable of being wilfully unjust. Pal
mcrston, essentially sunerticlal, delighted In
banter, and knew how to divert gravo opposi
tion by playful levity; Lincoln was a man of
infinite jest on bis lips, with saddest earnest
ness at his heart. Palmerston was a fair re
presentative of tho aristocratic liberality of
the day, choosing lor his tribunal, not the con
science of humanliy, but the House ot Com
mons; Lincoln took to heart tho eternal truths
ot liberty, obeyed them as tho commands
of Providence, and accepted tho human
ruco as the judsc of his fidelity. Pal
mcrston did nothing that will endure;
his great achievement, the separation of
Belgium, placed that little kinsdom where it
must gravitate to France; Lincolu finished a
work which all time cannot overthrow. PalmT
ston Is a shining example of tho ablest of a culti
vated aristocracy; Lincoln shows tho geuuiuo
fruits of institutions where the laboring man
shares and assists to form tho great ideas and
designs of his country. Palmcrston was buried
in Westminster Abbey by the order ol his Queen,
nnd was followed by tho British aristocracy to
bis grave, which after a few years will hardly be
noticed by the side of the graves of Fox and
Chatham; Lincoln was followed by the sorrow
of his country across the continent to his resting
place in the heart of the Mississippi valley, to bo
remembered through all time by his countrymen,
and by nil the peoples of the world.
CONCLUSION.
As the sum of all, the hand of Lincolu raised
the Hag; the American people waa tho hero of
tho war; and therefore the rcdiilt is a now era of
republicanism. The disturbances iu the coun
try grew not out of anything republican, but out
ot slavery, which is part of the yjtem of here
ditary wrong; nnd the expulsion of this domes; ic
anomaly opens to tho renovated nation a career
of UDthbught-of dignity and glory. Henceforth
our country has a moral unity as the land ot
tree labor. The party tor slavery and tke party
against slavery are no more, and arr. merged
in the party of union and freedom. The States
which would have left us are not brought back
as conquered States, for then we should hold
them only so long as that conquest could bo
maintaiucd; they come to their rightful place
under the Constitution as original, necessary,
and inseparable members of the State.
We build monuments to the dead, but no
monuments of victory. We respect the example
ot the Romans, who never, even in conquered
lands, raised emblems of triumph. And our
generals are not to be classed in the her 1 of vul
gar conquerors, but are of tho school of Timo
lcon, and William of Orange, and Washington.
They have used the sword only to give peace to
their country and resiore her tu her nliice In thp
treat assembly of the nations. Our meeting
noses m hope, now that a peonie ticinns to live
according to the laws of reason, and rpubltcan-
n ni is intrenched in a continent.
During the delivery of tho oration, prominent
among the foreign ministers in tho diplomatic
gallery was Sir Frederick Bruce, of England,
accompanied by Hon. Thomas Ilovell Thurlow,
private secretary, and several ladies. The Mar
quis de Montholon appeared in his place with
M. le Comte de Taverney. The following wero
also present: Barou Stoeckl, Russian Minister;
Senor Don Gabriel Garcia y Tassara, Spanish
Envoy; Baron von Zerolt, ot Prussia; Barou
Welterstedt, of Sweden ; Colonel de Raaslolf,
Denmark; Count Wydenbruck, Austria; Senor
Romero, and others.
From the Associated Press.
In Memoriam ot President Lincoln.
Washington, February 12. The flags over the
publio buildings, including the Capitol, are at
half-mast to-day.
At 10 o'clock the doors leading to tho rotunda
of the capitol were opened to those to whom
invitations had been extended by the presiding
officers of tho two Houses, and to those holding
tickets of admission to the galleries, issued by
the Chairman of the Joint Coinmittc of Arrange
mcnts'
The hall ol the House of Representatives was
opened sor Vie admission os Representatives
and those to whom invitations had been ex
tenden, who wero conducted to the seats as
signed to them.
The President of the United States was seated
was seated in front of the Speaker's table. The
Chief Justice and Associate Justices of tho
Supreme Court of tho United States occupied
seats next to the President, on the right of the
Speaker's table.
The heads of departments, with the Diplo
matic Corps occupied seats next to the President
on the left of the Speaker's table. Officers of
the Army and Navy, who by name have received
the thanks of Congress, occupied seats next to
the Supreme Court on the right of the Speaker's
table. Representatives occupied soats oi either
side of the hall, in the rear of those invited
four rows on either side of the main aisles lor
Senators.
In addition to those above mention were the
assistant heads of departments, Governors of
States and Territories, the Mayor of Washington
and Georgetown, the Chief Justices and Judges
of the Court 6f Claims, and the Chief Justice an!
associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the
District ot Columbia, tho heads of Bureaus in
the departments and others.
When Lleutenant-General Grant entered the
gallery with tho ladits, he was greeted with bd-
plause. The army and navy officers were In uni
foim. The diplomatic corps nppeared in citizens
drefs. General B. F.' Butler, on entering the
hall was applauded by his friends.
The House was called to order at 12 o'clock by
the Speaker, who, after a prayer by the Rev. Mr
Boy nton.laid belore them a lutter from Secretary
Sewurd, addressed to the Speaker, making b
Acknowledgments for tho invitation to be pre
sent on this occasion, but sincerely regretting
that the state of his health forbids bis attend
ance on the Interestiug national ceremonies,
The Cabinet, excepting Mr. Seward, wero present.
Senator Doolittle conducted the oraton of the
day to a seat at the table of the Clerk of th
House. When the Senators, the President and
his Cabinet, aud the Supreme Court entered th
Hall, those on the floor rose to their feet and
stood until they were all seated.
THIRD EDITION
WASIIIiyGTOTV.
Special Despatch to the Evening Teleffraph.
Washington, February 12.
General Bailor to nccorae Virginia
ninnfactarcr.
Ceneral Bntlcr has Juft closed negotlnf.ons for
a valuable mill property on the James river,
near Richmond, Intending to erect extensive cot
ton factories. The Cox larra, containing 2800
acres, through which rims Dutch Gap Canal, has
been offered to tho Gcnoral, and he has in con-"
templation its purchase. New England families
aud mill operators will be set:led upon it.
Jell". Daftfe'i Private ftecreury.
Jeff. Davis's private secretary, confined in
Fori Delaware, has been allowed tho freedom of
that institution.
Hancock's Corp.
The soldiers of Hancock's Corps are bsiDj
mustered out dally, as the period of their year's
enlistment expires; and by tho 1st of May, of
what now constitutes two regiments ;there will
be barely enough lelt to organize a company.
Outrages in i'lorMt.
The recent maltreatment ot Captain Johnson
in Florida, by ex-Rebels, seems to have been a
maturely organized affair. The mob also called
upon the United States District Attorney, aud
ordered him to leave the State forthwith, or for
feit his life. It is stated that the civil authori
ties lend their countenance to these outrages,
and the military is at present Inadequate to pro
tect Union men from these assaults. Tho deter
mination Is to drive out all Yankees from tho
State.
Tb Northern Pacific Rnllroml.
Tho Northern Pacltic Railroad, of which Gov
ernor Smllh, of Vermont, is President, in orga
nizing for a vigorous prosecution of their work.
They hipe to secure tho samo favorable legisla
tion as has been extended to the Great Central
Route Company.
From Jfoitrcss Monroe.
Fortress Monroe, Feb.flO. Yesterday the ship
Qrai Eaale, from Rio Janeiro, with codec for
Baltimore, was spoken off Cape Henry by the
revenue cutter Kankakee, who supplied her with
provisions.
A large sale of Government property has beeu
advertised to take place on the 23d instant, at 2
P. M. The salo will compriso wagons, ambu
lances, harness, carpenters' tools, aud a miscel
laneous collection of camp cots, bedsteads, scrap
iron, grain sacks, cooking stove', etc. Terms
cash, in Government funds. There will also be
sold 30,000 feet of oak lumber, and 10,000 of ash.
On the 20 instant 100 horses will be sold.
A Curious Defalcation in New Hampshire.
Boston, February 12. A Concord, N. II., de
spatch reports that there Ib much excitement
among tho directors and stockholders ot the
Concord Railroad Company, caused by develop
mcnts said to implicate passengers, conductors,
and other parties with embezzlement and, the
issuing of spurious railroad tickets. Property
to the amount of 300,000 belonging to tho ul-
leged defaulters has been attaihed, and legal
proceedings instituted.
From J'an Salvador.
New York, February 12. San Salvador ad
vices to January 20 state that a violent storm
occurred on the 4th ult., unrooting houses iu
the city, and destroying many in the interior.
ji ' A couple were married in the cars on the
road to St. Louis a tow days eiuce,
The receipts of the theatres of Paris during the
year 18G5 were as follows: January. 2,123,918f. ;
February, 2,0(i5,207t'.; March, l,9li,807i.; April,
l,OGO,74i'f.; May, 1,631,1-lOf.; June, l,l(i5.5oHf.;
.inly, !J79,7liyf.; August, i,2:ii,uifit.; weptemDer,
1.24R.,r,43f.: October. l.G02.M."f.: November.
l.(JG3.848f.: December. ,6i)1.040f. Total, 19.108.
435f. The receipts in 18ti4 were 10.748,975. Tho
difference, thereiore, in favor oi iMua is a, -119,410,
The Iowa Register states tho population of
tho- principal towns in that State to be as lot
lows: . -
Dutiuou... 15,814
DavenDurt 14,0t8
Keokuk, about 9 i)
Burlincton 8.018
Ue iloine? 6H.M
Iowa City - B 417
llucatiue 5,272
A youth who much desired to wear the
matrimonial voke. had not sui'ic'.ent courage to
"pop the question." On informing hl father of
the Qitficuity he laoorea unosr, tue oid genitc
man replied passionately, "Why, you great
booby, how do you suppose I managed whrn 1
got married ?" "Oh, yes," said tho ba-hful
lover, "you married mother, but I've got to
marry a strange girl."
Tin. one of the rarest metals in the United
States, is known to occur in California aud
elsewhere In the Pacitic regious. Recently
some deposits of tho oxide of the metal in Ber
nardino county have been experimentally
worked. The ore averages nbont fifteen per
cent. Some specimens ot the best ore have
been sent to San Francisco to test the caoaclty
ot the machinery there lor crushing and cou
centrating it.
The Boston Journal Kates that Mr. James
Tetlow, who has for thu last three or four years
been eogacred in buildiug iron vessels in Chelsea
lor the Government, has been obliged to suspend
payment. Quite a number of East Boston me
chanic! who have had contracts upon his vessels
are heavy losers. One firm has bills to the
amount of $14,000, another to tho amount of
KKG0O. and others from $1000 to $huu. some ol
them can ill afford to loss their claims.
Grisl aud Mario are engaged for the ap
proaching season at Her Majesty's Theatre, in
London. Before the opening of thi seasont a
vocal and instrumental party consisting of Grisi,
Mario. Madame du Merle Lablacho, bignor Poll,
and Mad'lle Emilia Arditi (the violinist), with
Arditi as conductor, are to make a tour in tho
provinces; and at ihe same time mere win oe
another provincial tour, including Titieus, Sinico,
Zanar.ui, Stagno, aud iiossi,
The Portage (Wis.) Kigisfer announces the
death of Joseph Crele, the aged veteran of oue
hundred and fortv-ono years, which occurred on
Saturday, tho 27th of January, alter a brief ill
nes-i. at the resldmce of his grand-dauehter.
Mrs. Brhbois, in Caledonia, ubout lour mllos
Irom Portpgc. During the past year Mr. Crele
obtained a world-wide notoriety through tho
newspapers, on account of his extreme lon-
fevity. He was born near t he city of Detroit, in
he year 1725 as shown by the records of tho
Catholic church ol' that city, aud was probably
the oldost man in the world.
An old gentleman named Rogers, from
Texas, who wus taking his daughter to school at
Chicago, took parage on the Illinois Central
Railroad at Cairo a short time since, for tho
Garden City. Ho engaged a berth in a sleeping
car, and retired about the time the train left
Ceutralia. Ho was taken from his borth and
robbed by a band of desperadoes, and thrown
overboard about two miles from Tuscola, where
ho remained on the frozen ground uutil early
next morning, when he was l.iund by the sec
tion hands in an insensible condition, aad con
veyed on a baud car to Tuscola, where he died
about a week or ten days afterwards. His daugh
ter did not ascertain his whereabouts ia time to
see him beiore bis death.
THE GREAT
STREHGTHEinKa TONIC, - ,
rtlFfcfcyrrepron), t
IIOOFLAND'S -
,,'
t E R M AN BITTERS,
WILL CCRE . r
DEBILITY ! DEBILITY!
Resulting from any cause whatever. i
H
TEOSTEATION of the system
INDUCED DY TUB SEVERE DARnsniPS, EXPOStTBK
FEVERS, OJ?
DiseaseH of Camp Life.
SOLDIEKS, CITIZENS, MALE OB FEMALE, ADVLT
OB YOUTH,
WIP find In thl Bl'tern a pnro Tonle, not drpendmit OB '
bad liquor for tholr amust nnracuiouo oiiecla.
DYSPEPSIA, and
Diseases Resulting from Disorders of the
Liver and Digestive Organs,
are cbri:d bt
IIGOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS.
This Hitters ku Derfnrmed mora enra. ortoM hAiiar
sntiaiactlon, lias ouiro toxtiiuonjr, hat morn rvDoctali-.
pcopie to vaucb lor it, tliau any oilier article lu Uia
uiurkoU
o
W e defy any one to contradict this assertion, and
WltiL PAY SIOOO
To nny one who wlil produce a cortlflcato published by nt
that is not Keauiuo.
Hoofland's German Bitters
WILL CCIIB EVIUV CASK Off
CHRONIC OR NERVOUS DEBILITY,
AND DISEASES OF THE KIDNE73.
F
Obaeive the following Symptoms, resnlt'ng Irom DU-
orders ot tUe Bluest ve Organs:
Constipation. Inward Pilos Fa mess ot Blood to the -fctuu,
Acidity of tno Htomach, Nauea. Heartburn,
JjlHvUHt lot Food. Fu.i.eiw or Weight tu tha
btuniBcb, Sour 1 nictations, Hmklngor Fiut-ti-rmir
at the Pit ot the Htomach wlm
nilng of tho lioud, Hunleil and Itiiti
cult Breathlnu. Fluttering at the
Hcnrt. Choking (,r HullocatUig
Mentations when in a Ivinir
oosture. llu nerg of Vision,
Dots or Webs hetbre tho HlWit,
Fever and Dull Pain In the Head,
Dctlclency of Peispiratton, Ye lownons
ot the Mtin and Kjes. Pain In the Mdo,
Park. Chest, Limbs. Etc. tiudden Flmhoa
ot Heat. luirnlUK' In the Fiesh Constant
lu.a.Tiuintcs of Evil, und Great Depression of tipliits.
L
REMEMBER,
That this Bitteri is not Alcoholic, contain no Rum
or Whisky, and cannot muJce Drunl:ards, Out is the
Beit Tortic in the world
HEAD WHO SAYS SO.
. .
Fiom Bov. W. D FclgiHod, Pastor of Twelfth Baptist
Church, Philadelphia.
(jcutlcmen : 1 have recently been laboring under tha
dig ressing clk-ors of inulKtstlon. accompanied bv a pros
iraticu oi the nervous mucin. J uiuerous remedies were
recommended by trit-iiUs, and some of iliem tea u but
, I Kn... ..K..r V ...... LI l.l. .
ncou unucta bv perilous who had tnc-u them, aud whose
itivmab e mention ot thene Bit era induoeu mo to trr
them. 1 must confipg that I hud an aversion 10 Pateut "
Medicines irom the ".thousand and one" quaclt "Hit
ters," whose only aim gieuiH to be tu pa in oil sweetened
ami drilled Huuor upon the comtnun ty in i sly way, '
and the tendency of milch. I tear, la to make man v a .
continued drunkard Upon leurnliif Unit yours wag
really a medicinal preparation. 1 took It win happy
ettect. Its action not oulv upon the stomach, out upon
the nervous Bystcin was prompt ana urutuymg. I me!
that 1 have derived gioat and permanent boneflt from
the use of a lew bottles.
' Very respect'ullr yours, 1
W I) SEKJFRTFD.
Xo. bbackainaxou street
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Frcm the Bcv E. D. Fendall, Assistant Editor Chrtstla
C hionicle, Philauelpbia. ,
I have derived decided benefit from the use of Hoof-.
Jem 's German Buieis. and teel It my privilege tore
commend tlicin as a most valuable tonic, to all wbeare
suneriug trom general debility or Irom diaeaset arblint
Irom derangement ot the liver.
Tours truly, E. D. FENDALL.
From Bev. T. Mei-rlge. Pastor of the Paesyunk Baptist
church, Phlladeipala,
From Ihe mauv respcctatuV recommendations given to
Dr. Hoofland's (ierman liitters 1 was iuduoed to give
them a trial. Alter using several bottles I lound tin-.m
to be a good remedy ior debility, ana a most excellent
MUlC lor the stomach. D. Alt KtUUE.
From Bev. William Smith, formerly Pastor or the Vin
ceutown and Alulvule iN. J.) Baptist churches.
Having used lu mj lanily a number oi bottles of your
Bootluud'a Herman Bluer. 1 have o say tbatl regard
tliem as an excellent medicine, specially adapted to re
move the dljea.es they are recommended tor They
strengthen and lnvlporate tim system when debt itated,.
and rre uselu In dlsoiders of the 'iver. losaoi appetite,
eta. 1 have also recommended them to several ot my
trieads. who have tried t hem and touud ibein greauy
beneficial in the retoratlon of health.
Yours truly. WILLI M 8MITH,
Ho. 9oti Hutchinson street, Phlluda.
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