Class. Book £->> EULOGY ABRAHAM LINCOLN, DELIVERED IN H PORTSMOUTH, N. H. APRIL 19, 1865. ADONIRAM J. PATTERSON, Minister f>f Hie Oniveraalist Church. AND AN ACCOUNT OP THE OBSEQUIES OBSERVED BY THE CITY. PORTSMOUTH : C W. BREWSTER & SON, PRINTERS. 1865. EULOGY ABRAHAM LINCOLN, DELIVERED IN PORTSMOUTH, N. H. APEIL 19, 1865. /M BY ADONIRAM J. PATTERSON, Minister of the Uui versa! 1st Church. PORTSMOUTH : C. W. BREWSTER & SON, PRINTERS. 1865. Portsmouth, April 25, IE I. .7. Patterson: Dear Sir, We listened with much interest to the Eulogy on the himented President Lincoln, delivered by you, at the request of the Citj on the observance of the Obsequies in this city on the 10th in>t., and n fully request a copy for the press. Very truly yours, JOHN II. F.AILEY, ICHABOD GOODWIN, J ()X A. DEARBORN, C. W. BREWSTER. J. N. MACoMB, SAMUEL WECBER. ill . Hon. IchaboJ Cc~ . and others: stily ■ -MS. to the piiin [pies I li life, 1 > I • : . A. J. PATTER! EULOGTY. Fellow Citizens: At this hour a Nation bows under the heaviness of a great sorrow. Not only here in our little sea-side city, but all along the Atlantic coast, in every port and home, and far out over the wide land, in all its hamlets and cities, from all its valleys and hill-sides and prairies, the voice of lamentation goes up to God. From every craft upon our rivers, from every ship and steamer in our harbors, from every flag-staff on land or sea, our nation's ensign floats at half-mast over hearts that are heavy with grief. The golden shores of the Pacific send an answering echo to the wail of our wo. East and West, North and South, sit down together in sackcloth, crying, " Put off thy pleasant robes, daughter of the land, lay aside thy beautiful gar- ments for the raiment of grief. For the brave hath gone down to the place of darkness ; the cedar is bowed in the dust; his leaves are perished. Let the fir tree mourn aloud in Elealeh ; let the cedars of Lebanon hang their heads in tears." What has befallen our land to cause this universal mourn- ing? Only a little week ago our hearts were all jubilant over the tidings of victory and promises of returning peace. Has the tide of battle turned against us ? Have the noble defenders of liberty suffered inglorious and fatal defeat? No! No! Still we are victorious. Still the same promises of peace gleam like a star before us. Only two days ago, news came which would once have set all our bells pealing in jubilee, and our guns booming forth their joy.* No, the cause of liberty pitted in mortal com- bat is still onward, still victorious. It is not for defeat or hopeless battle that we mourn. The Nation's President ; he who led us to victory : he who stood in the van of liberty, pointing out to a great people the justice of her universal dominion ; he to whom we looked to establish freedom everywhere within our borders, has been violently snatched from the arms of our love, and the clinging tendrils of our hopes. We mourn a chief; a representative man ; an embodiment of a great idea. We mourn one who has been the intrepid leader and wise counsellor in the midst of unparalleled perils. — We mourn a man, tender-hearted, honest, christian — one who, blending noble characteristics as a man, with wisdom of fidelity as a leader, was to our nation as a rock of safety. We leaned upon him. We confided in him. We felt that he could not be betrayed into sin, or tempted to swerve a hair's breadth from the straight line of fidelity and principle. 1 think we never knew how much we leaned upon him, until the mighty pillar broke and fell. Well may we mourn. The death of Abraham Lincoln is a great calamity to this country. As such we all feel it. As such wo should feel it, that this tragedy may have a deep and lasting influence upon us. We have lost the tried and the true, and must trust our nation's interests now to new hands. God grant they may be clean hands, faithful hands, as those have been which are folded now over a still heart in onr nation's Capital. The story of Abraham Lincoln's lite is a familiar story. Hut it is one that it were well for us often to rehearse, as an incentive and encouragement to good endeavor. Taking of Mobile. His ancestors — who were Quakers — formerly resided in Berks co., Pa. His grand-father, Abraham Lincoln, for whom lie was named, removed from Pa. to Rockingham co., Va. Here Thomas Lincoln, the father of him we mourn to-day, was born. -From Virginia the family remov- ed to Kentucky, about the year 1782. In 1784 the grand- father was murdered by the Indians. His widow and chil- dren, in a new and strange land, inherited from him only his honesty, his piety, his poverty. They belonged to that unfortunate class known as the " poor whites" in the southern states. Having no schools, they enjoyed none of the advantages of education. The father of President Lincoln never knew how to read or write. His mother, also a native of Virginia, had been taught to read but not to write. Our lamented President was born on the 12th of Feb., 1809. The house in which he was born was a log cabin, without floor or window. There in a forest of Kentucky, with scarcely any of the surroundings of civilization, he spent his childhood years, drawing his first lessons from nature, his first discipline from trial and suifering. Though destitute of culture, and ignorant of the world, his father and mother were remarkably endowed by nature. Best of all, they were devout christians. His mother, especially, was a person of uncommon mental power and deep toned piety. The influence of her precepts and example was gratefully acknowledged by her honored son in after years. Feeling keenly the degrading influence of slavery upon the poor white people, and desiring to give his children the advantages of free institutions, Mr. Lincoln left his Kentucky home when Abraham was seven years old, and settled in Spencer co., Indiana. Here the child engaged with his father in the laborious employment of clearing a farm, and making a home in the wilderness; and was chiefly thus employed for the next ten years. During this period lie went to school at intervals, amounting in the aggregate to about one year. This was all the school education he ever received. He did not however depend upon schools or teachers for knowle He had a spirit within him that would not dwell in ignor- ance. Acquiring from his teachers the rudiments of educa- tion, he gained the rest by his own endeavor. All his spare moments were devoted to study. Sitting on a stool by the fire light— his father was too poor to afford him a lam}) or candle— he conned his lessons until the long mid- night hour. The first books that fell into his hands, after Dillworth's Spelling Book and his mother's Bible, were Pilgrim's Progress, ^Esop's Fables, and Weems' Life of Washington. These he read and re-read with all the eager- of a thirsty soul that quaffs a cooling fountain. He was especially interested in the moral lessons of the Fables, and derived therefrom many valuable hints which he carried with him through life. Perhaps his early familiar- ity with this volume— for he literally committed it to memory — laid the foundation of that facility for story - telling whirh distinguished him through life. For the character of Washington he acquired the most profound iration. And that charaoter stood before him, not as a beautiful picture to be gazed u] on and admired, but as an mple to be copied in all the affairs of life. 1 luring these years, a neighboring youth who bad ac- quired some knowledge of penmanship, visited Ids fat] house, and, discovering his earnest thirst for knowledge, proposed t<> instruct bim in the art of writing. Th< 'out a poor p inman, he could teach Abraham . the letters of the alphabet. He grasped with avidity at this new and Ion i 1 opportunity. " Le1 him knowhowto make the letters and he could master the resl himself." Prom thai time, wherever he might be,he was practicing bis oew found art. In the absence of pi d and paper, he wrote with a piece of chalk or coal, on boards and fences, and the bark of trees — anything that offered an even sur- face on which to draw his characters. On more than one occasion, from lack of better material, he wrote upon the ground. Here and there, in the field and by the wayside, might be seen in the sand the legible name of Abraham Lincoln. Ah, aspiring child, writing thy name in the soil of Indiana, write on ! Thou shalt yet engrave that name in characters indelible upon every State of this Union, upon the hearts of a great people, upon the institutions of thy country, upon the brightest historic page of liberty ! When Abraham was ten years old, a great shadow fell upon his home and heart. His kind, thoughtful, watchful mother died. When she laid her pale hand upon his head, and told him he must be without a mother now, and she wanted him to remember what she had so often told him — to be honest, good and true, and read the Bible, and love God — and then whispered a prayer that the Infinite Father might guard her child, and make him a good and useful man, he felt as though his heart would break with sor- row, and he inwardly resolved that, God helping him, his mother's dying prayer should be fulfiled. Her calm white form lay in that humble home shrouded for the grave. — The day of burial came. All the neighbors assembled to shed their tears of love and sympathy, for they said " it is not often that so good a woman as Mrs. Lincoln is laid in the ground." A sad procession followed the cold form to a grave in the woods on the hill side. There was no minister or sexton, chanting choir or tolling bell. A pious friend read the scriptures, and another made a prayer, and so with the voices of the forest for a requiem, they con- signed the precious dust to its final rest. It was a solemn funeral — solemn to all present, but especially solemn to the stricken child. Who would have dreamed, as he returned slowly and sadly from the grave of his mother, that when he should be borne to his rest, the bells would toll in more 8 than ten thousand steeples, and bands would play dirges in every city, and a whole sticken land would gather about his grave as the grave of a father? I cannot trace in detail, the experiences of this won- derful child, — nor need I, for his history is within the reach of all. At the age of 19, assisted by a son of his employer, he took a flat boat laden with the products of the inland country, to New Orleans — a distance of six- teen hundred miles. During the perilous and laborious voyage, these two young men defended themselves suc- cessfully against seven negroes, who came upon them at night for purposes of plunder. Is it not a little singular, that his first journey beyond the neighborly precincts of home, should have involved an encounter with that unfor- tunate people, for whose redemption from bondage he gave the best energies of his public life, and because of his fidelity to this noble purpose, has added his name to the glorious company of martyrs ? In conversation with his companion after the exploit, he said, ''They are not so much to blame as their masters. Slavery has robbed them of everything, and I suppose they think it fair play to take what they can get." At the age of 21, he removed with his father from Indiana, and settled in Macon co., 111., where he helped build a log house for the family home, and fence and improve the farm. At the age of 22, he hired to build a flat boat at 12 dollars per month, which, when completed, he took to New Orleans. On his re- turn his employer placed him in charge of a store and mill at New Salem, III. Here he acquired a knowledge of I lish grammar daring the intervals between waiting up i. n customers. All these yens were years oi % excessive toil, but they were also years of mental improvement. At the age of 23, on the breaking onl of the Black Hawk war, he enliBted in the service of his country, and to hie great surprise was chosen captain of a company pi volunteers, lie Berved with distinction through this war, and on his return was nominated for the legislature. His precinct gave him 277 votes, and only 7 votes against him. About this time he begun to study law. Being unable to purchase books, he borrowed them from a neighboring lawyer, taking them at evening, studying while other men slept, and returning them in the morning. On one oc- casion he walked to Springfield — 22 miles — to procure Blackstone's Commentaries, and returned the same day with the four volumes in his arms, reading one of them nearly all the way. Although he labored industriously with his hands for his daily bread, he advanced as rapidly with his studies as is common for young men who have all the advantages of time and teachers. He also obtained surveyors' instruments and books, and soon with very little instruction, became a skilful practical surveyor. " With such devotion did he employ his time in study and manual labor — denying himself of much that is generally deemed essential by young men, that he might well have adopted the language of Cicero, "What others give to public shows and entertainments, to festivity, to amuse- ments, nay, even to mental and physical rest, I give to study and philosophy. " In 1834, he was elected to the Legislature, and was re- elected for eight successive years. In 1836 he obtained a license to practice law, and in the following year removed to Springfield, Illinois. He rose rapidly to distinction in his profession, and soon ranked among the first lawyers of his State. He established one rule as a counsellor which might well be copied by all the members of the profession, and that was, to defend only what he believed to be the the cause of justice. If a man solicited his aid in pressing an unjust claim, he turned him away with the assurance that he could not be his tool in wickedness, and with the recommendation to keep the matter out of the law. When his principle in this particular became known, it gave him double power. For him to espouse a cause was almost 10 equivolent to gaining it. Judge and jury knew when lie spoke, that be spoke from the inmost convictions of his heart. All his dealings were characterized by such integ- rity as to secure to him the appellation '-honest Abraham.*' In 184G he was elected a representative in Congress from the central district of 111. Here he always gave his influ- i nre on the side of justice and liberty. "He voted for the reception of anti-slavery memorials and petitions, for a committee to inquire into the constitutionality of si in the District of Columbia, and for various resolutions prohibiting the institution in territory to be acquired from Mexico." Although he was well known honored and beloved in his own State, as a comprehensive wise and judicious states- man, he did not attract the attention of the Nation until the year 1858. Being nominated as candidate for U. S. Senator in opposition to Judge Douglas, he entered the canvass againsl that eloquent. Bhrewd and able orator and statesman. They canvassed the State together, speaking at the same place on the same day. The canvass was conducted with marked ability on both side-, and awakened universal interest. Mr. Lincoln proved himself quite equal in debate, to him who was the recognized leader of the Democratic party in Congress, and the avowed aspirant to the Presidential chair. There being a Democratic majority in the legislature, Mr.Douglas was elected; bul Mr. Lincoln had a majority of more than tOOO in the popular vole. In May I860, the Republican National Convention met in Chicago, and on the third ballot nominated Mr. Lincoln candidate for President of the United stales. This nomination was subsequently confirmed by the people, and on the Ifh of March 1861, he was inaugurated. In the meantime a rebellion againsl the Governmenl had broken oul in the Slai e States. Seven States had seceded. A i. rnmenl had been organized. The Flag had boon insulted ; armies had been organized; and the insur* 11 gents had committed several overt acts of war. The new President assumed the rein of a government already broken into fragments by internal discord. He immediately set himself about the work of restoring its marred proportions. He appealed to the disaffected and rebellious people, with all the conciliation tenderness and affection of a father to disobedient children. He explained to them the danger of the course they were pursuing, assured them that all their Constitutional rights should be religiously maintained, and urged them by every consideration of justice interest and honor, to return to their allegiance to the government and Flag of Washington. "My disaffected fellow countrymen" — says he in his first Inaugural — "think calmly and do not act rashly. In your hands and not mine is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you; you can have no con- flict without being yourselves the aggressor. The laws are of your own framing under it, while the new adminis- tration has no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in this dispute, there is no single good reason for precipitate action. You have do oath registered in heaven to destroy this government. I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it. We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break the bonds' of affection. The mystic call of memory, stretching from every battle field and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the cords of the Union, when touched again, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." An able journal opposed to his election, said of this Inaugural — "If anything can calm the troubled waters, if anything can check the rapid and downward course to an- archy and ruin, it will be this address, so clear, so cool, so patriotic, so statesmanly. If to this day we had been the HI : ! i 12 opponent of Abraham Lincoln, if to tins day we had dis- trusted Abraham Lincoln, we would now act in faith and friendship to his administration, as we deem it the duty of every man who loves his Country, and would sustain the government, perpetuate the Union, and preserve our liber- ties, passing them unimpaired to our children and our children's children after us." You all know with what a malignant, determined, devil- ish spirit, the Rebels engaged in their long contemplated scheme to destroy the Government. You all know with what patience, industry and singleness of purpose, the President took up the work of saving it from destruction. They had forced upon him the terrible alternative of war. He accepted it, believing that some things in this world are worse than war, and that among these are the loss of honor, the sacrifice of country, the death of liberty. With what signal success he accomplished the task he had undertaken ! Let the Jubilates and Te-Deums of the past few weeks answer ! Let the rebel fugitives with their broken and scattered armies answer! Let four millions of free men standing upon their broken chains answer ! The achievements of this war will be pronounced by the historians the marvel of the world. They surpass the tri- umphs of Hannibal or Cajsar, Alexander or Napoleon. 1 know in our haste to see our Country restored, we have sometimes complained at what seemed ti> us a fearful hesitating policy. The next generation will discover that what we called hesitation was wise discretion; that amid our 1 1 o ii j 13 and foreign complications, any other policy would have led to inevitable ruin. Nbetep has been taken hastily to be retraced at some unforeseen emergency. Every measure has been carefully considered before it was adopted as a policy of Government! and when adopted it has been unwaveringly followed. The wisdom of home traitors has been oheok-mated by superior wisdom. The diplomacy of foreign foes has been defl I 13 by a shrewder diplomacy. Had the Emancipation Procla- mation occurred three months earlier, the whole opposition part} T in the north would probably have been in arms. Had it been delayed three months longer, the rebels would doubtless have been recognized by France and England. Watching the current of events, and guarding our interests on the right hand and on the left, disregarding this lure, and avoiding that snare, he led us on until we had almost reached the goal of our endeavors, the object of our prayers. In the administration of public affairs as in all his dealings in private life, he observed the rules of undeviating honesty. Even his enemies have been constrained to acknowledge this. They have questioned his ability, they have denounc- ed his policy, but there is not a respectable man or journal in the new world or the old, that will question for a moment his incorruptible integrity. True to his convictions of right, faithful to the cause of liberty, upright in all his dealings as a man and public magistrate, his name will go down to posterity as "the honest President." That he was an able man, is evident in the fact that confi- dence in his ability grew in the public heart, from the day of his first Inauguration until the day he died. Guiding a great nation in the midst of perils such as nation never saw before, he has so directed our affairs that it were difficult to-day — in view of all the circumstances — to say of a single public measure of his, that it was untimely or unwise. Many of the presses and statesmen of Europe, have reluct- antly acknowledged, that in originality, breadth and com- prehensiveness of mind, he took high rank among the rulers of the world. His industry was unflagging. This was a trait of char- acter which had been cultivated from his childhood. He knew not how to be idle. He was one of the most inces- sant workers living. But for his great industry he never could have risen above the adverse surroundings of his 14 early life. But for the industrious habits of his whole life, he could not have borne the excessive labors of the last four years. He was one of the most cheerful of men. He always saw the bright Bide of everything. To him the darkest cloud had a silver lining — the darkest night some guiding star. When others were filled with the deepest despon- dency he was hopeful and happy. 1 1 is goodness of heart knew no hounds. He never turned an unwilling ear from an appeal for sympathy or succor. The poor and the distressed found in him a helper and a friend. At his receptions, men and women of distinction ■ often permitted to pass by without especial notice, but the maimed and the unfortunate were sure to receive a kindly word ami a warm pressure of the hand. Innumer- able incidents might be cited, where he turned from Senators and Governors to greet and listen to the complaint of some poor women or needy child. In the midst of his manifold labors, he was an almost daily visitor at the hospitals. Many a maimed soldier has received the kindly ministry oi his own hand and heart. Indeed the assassin took advan- i of his well known goodness to secure an opportunity to take his lift . lie caused an announcement to be m 1I1- the President would attend the Theatre. Strangers were in the city who would take that opportunity to see the Nation's Chief. He could not 6nd it in his heart to disappoint them. Accordingly he went against his own wishes, and r< eived from the black heart thai lured him the missile of death, [f he erred in an official capac- ity, his errors sprang from the kindness ol' his heart, — he I on the side of mercy. He shrank from severity even in his dealings with his enemies. Malice found no place in his great honest heart. Even justice in his hand was tempered with mercy — bo tempered as to almost lose Its He clo • that last unique fnaugural, which might well he printed in letteri ofgold and hung in the home- oi 15 all Americans, — in the following language of kindness and forgiveness. "With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, — as God gives us to see the right, — let us strive to finish the work we are engaged in, to bind up the Nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the brunt o£ the battle, and for his widow and orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all Nations." As a husband and father he was kind, tender and true. God pity and comfort that beloved circle, now that he is so cruelly taken from them. He was emphatically a Christian. The Christian spirit was the all-pervading spirit of his life. He believed in the higher law, — in the Higher Lawgiver. In nearly all his public messages, proclamations, and papers of every kind, he recognized our dependence upon God as individ- uals and as a nation. His first morning hours were spent in reading the Bible and prayer. He could not go to his arduous duties until he had implored help from God. His religious faith took form in works. He lived not for himself but for the world. He was a man of the people. We all felt that we had a personal relation with him, different from that which has existed between the people and the President since the days of Washington. There was none of that official exaltation about him so often observable in men suddenly elevated to honorable station. Though a great nation united to re- elect him, and thus testify its love and confidence, there was no exhibition of pride or vanity on his part. He was glad to be loved and trusted. In his early and late acknowledgements to God for his mercies, he returned thanks for the love, confidence and co-operation of the people. But he did not glorify himself, or his own deeds, as the procurer of that love. Amid all his successes as the Chief Magistrate he was personally humble as a child. In this we see his great- 16 ness. It is only the weak man who is vain-glorious over his own achievements and position. The strong and true man looks upon himself only as an instrument in the hands of a higher power, working the will of Providence. What President ever before watched with such fatherly interest the affairs of State, — complicated as they were by intestine war ? Down the Potomac, and up the James, and far out over the field of conflict, he has journeyed time and again, in his anxiety for the great cause pitted in mortal combat. Scarcely had the rebel army left their capital before he entered it ; and he entered not in the pomp and state of a conqueror, but on foot and almost unattended, like a common citizen or soldier. He was one of the people, — our helper and leader, and we are person- ally bereaved. But the fine characteristics of his public and private life culminate in his love of liberty. His name will go down to history as the great Emancipator. A race of men rising up from broken chains look to him as their de- liverer. His name is spoken with blessings and thanks- giving in every slave hut in the South. No pen or pencil can paint in adequate colors the picture of his late visit to Richmond. His retinue of men, and women, and chil- dren, — who walked over chains ho had broken, — is more glorious in the eye of the Christian, than that of any king or conqueror on the page of history. They gathered in his way, shunting his name amid tears and blessings, until the highway was blocked by their swaying forms, and aoldiere had to clear a path for him to the house of the rebel fugitive, no went on foot from the wharf, but lie was luad and shouldors taller than any about him, and all the hungry waiting <'yes could see their deliverer. I think the joy he fell in that triumphant march, was some compensate d for the toil and Borrow of these years of war. !!'• was full of hope. Peace gleamed like a 17 star before him, and neared and brightened when he thought of universal liberty, — as inseparable from it. He had led this people out of the house of bondage and through the red sea of war. The weary march of four years through the wilderness of doubt, and disappointment, and treachery, and rebellious strife, was ended ; and our Moses, from the Pisgah of re-established law and order and liberty, looked over the whole land redeemed. From this holy height, he saw the fair fields of our inheritance putting on new verdure and fresh blossoms. He surveyed the land flowing with milk and honey, and saw its glorious future mirrored in beauty before him. His heart laid off something of its weary burdens, — as our hearts had be- gun to do, — and he rejoiced at the auspicious prospect. But he was not permitted to enter into this inheritance of liberty and peace, which he had secured to his grateful countrymen. This man it was, the brave, the faithful, the patriotic, the loving, the Christian President of these United States, who was loved and trusted as no mortal man was ever loved before, and who had literally won and conquered the hearts of the nation and the world by goodness and self sacrifice, who was struck down, mur- dered in cold blood, by a fiend in the shape of a man, whom he had never wronged. O the depravity of that heart which could thus destroy his life ! It could only descend to such a depth of ma- lignity through the school of crime which prepared the land for this rebellion. When men commit themselves to a system which is in itself an epitome of crime, they are prepared in process of timefor any act in the long catalogue of infamy. Only from such a wholesale system of injustice, oppression, cruelty and murder, as American slavery, could this rebellion spring. All the barbarities attending it ; the persecution of loyal men ; the murder of helpless women and chil- 2 18 dren ; the blowing up of almshouses, and ushering without warning their sleeping inmates into eternity ; the starving of prisoners : the disregard of solemn oaths ; and finally this fiendish assassination, are acts in one common drama, which were all born and nurtured in the heart of slavery. ■e are only the details of this one gigantic crime, — incidents in this great struggle between civilization and barbarism. President Lincoln, the great Emancipator, is added to the long list of martyrs to the cause of lib- erty. Just at the Nation's dawning day he has been snatched from us. The slave power, which we thought disarmed and dead, reared its defiant head for this fatal blow. It has filled up the measure of its iniquity. They meant it for evil, but we believe God will overrule even this ca- lamitv to the nation's good. We shall learn vigilance by it. We shall guard our liberties as never before. Our rallying cry shall be — let there be no vestige left of the murderous spirit of the slave power. It is not sale let ■ in this nation. It may be we did not sufficii realize this truth. It may lie we would have been too lenient, too merciful. The burden of this crime is upon th*e rebels. It will be a heavy one for them to bear. Their privileges will be 1 and their punishment in- creased. We will throw our united energy into the Bcale of justice, and turn the balance with such tremendous ir that this red-handed iniquity will kick the beam in its dying throes. Abraham Lincoln is dead. Perhaps they who plotted the infamous assassination, ami he whose red hand executed the plot, thought they could by that Mow exterminate the principles o\ which he has been the faithful representative. The world Bhall see thousands of faithful men rise as from his ashes, fully armed for the battle not yet ended. Lib- erty cannol be annihilated 1>\ pistol shot. or dagger thrust. 19 Behind, and underneath, and round about it, are the " ever, lasting arms. " Never on this continent, shall the power which killed our honored President, wear again the shield of law. It may show its dragon teeth in covert places ; it may strike yet again at the unarmed champion of law, when it can strike in the rear and run from justice. But its existence as an element of the Nation is ended. From the ashes of those it has slain, have come the will and the power which shall bury it in its grave. When Lovejoy was murdered for his defence of the doctrine announced by our Declaration of Independence, did the dial of freedom go backward ? I tell you nay. It missed his clarion tongue, and diamond pen. But other pens and tongues took up the message and spread it broad- cast among the people. Many a heart vowed above his grave to stand like a rock against the aggression of slavery. When Charles Sumner was knocked down in the Senate Chamber by a bludgeon of the slave power, was liberty weakened by the blow? Who does not know that it gathered to itself increased power. Men who had been indifferent before to the poisonous fangs of the scorpion our Nation harbored in its bosom, saw the danger we were in, and girded themselves to overcome it. The heart of the liberty loving North was stirred. Its eyes were op- ened. Those who had been champions of liberty before grew more determined. The timid and half doubting saw their way in clearer light, and came under the banner of him who suffered for his faith in brotherhood — his love of man and God. That single act, speaking as it did of the barbarizing effects of slavery upon the South, added its thousands to the growing ranks of liberty. When Gov. Wise of Virginia hung John Brown, did he thereby hang the idea which he represented? Let the 20 fields of that State ploughed over and over again by the red share of war, answer. That State where God's image has been bought and sold like a beast in the market, so many thousand times, in the midst of the furnace of retrib- utive justice is being purified, and prepared to begin meekly a career of freedom. A million rifles flashed in the sun. fight, when that one weak man was disarmed — weak in martial strength, but invincible as an embodied principle. Thus has it ever been, when men have tried to fight against God and his righteous laws, by killing the exponents and representatives of those laws. From these parallel but inadequate examples, let us take heart of faith for this hour of trouble and darkness. — When we think of our dead Chief, we are ready to cry out in anguish, "Our sorrow is greater than we can bear." — We look around us and see none who can wear the fallen mantle with that singleness of purpose which has charac- terized the departed. But let us remember that "under- neath are the everlasting arms,'" and God's providence shall never fail to guide and help the righteous purpose. He will point the way for our feet, and designate our leader, as he did Moses and Aaron and Joshua, in those long past troublous times. As we think of the still face of our dead, stricken in the midst of his usefulness, cut off by violence, we shall feel a firmer resolve rounding itself into life, to be faithful to the interests which he defended. Every loyal heart in the land will be nerved anew to stand linn, as it recalls the integrity of our leader through these trying years. Presi- dent Lincoln shall Bpeak evermore from li] I for immortality, of the integrity of an honesl purpose. And the men of to-day shall hear the voice of his life, and the warning of his death, and give themselves with renewed fidelity to liberty and justice. Children in their cradles, learning from American mothers' lips the Btory ^i' his life 21 and its tragic close, shall grow day by day in the strength of virtue, which they learn to honor in the liberator and martyr. The haters of liberty crucified the son of Mary. But he rose to life again, and his resurrection is celebrated by the christian church throughout the world. By his death he acquired a power and influence which he could never have attained in life. So shall it be with our lamented dead. — Power shall be born of his ashes, even as a corn of wheat dying brings forth an hundred fold, — and the wrath of man be made to praise thee, God. It is a source of sadness that President Lincoln did not see the work completed he had so well begun. But let us not forget, that though exalted far above all the conflicts of' this world, he is still permitted to witness the onward march of truth in the land he loved so well ; and that when justice shall triumph, and liberty shall be established, it will not only cause the hearts of men to sing for gladness, but will add a new and exultant note to the song of all the martyrs of liberty,— to the song of the angels. Our Ship of State is on a troubled sea. The faithful pilot has been struck down, just as the welcome lights of the haven began to gleam through the darkness. " But courage, O my mariners! ° Ye shall not suffer wreck, While up to God the freedmen's prayers Are rising from your deck. Is not your sail, the banner Which God hath blessed anew, The angel's cross-wrought mantle, The red, the white, the blue? Its hues are all of Heaven, — The red of sunset's dye, The whiteness, of the moonlit cloud, The blue of morning's sky. '* Slightly altered to adapt it to the subject, from "SYhittier's beautiful Poern, "The Mantle of St. John DeMatha." 22 Wait cheerly then, mariners, For day-light and for land; The breath of < ; "1 is in your sail, Your rudder in His hand. Sail on, sail on, deep freighted With blessings and with hopes; The saints of old with unseen hands Are pulling at your ropes. Behind ye, holy martyrs Uplift the palm and crown, Before ye, unborn ages send Their benedictions down. Sail on ! O ship of freedom! God's errands never fail ! Sail on! through storm and darkness, The thunder and the hail! Sail on ! The morning couieth, Tin- port ye yet shall win! And all the bells of God shall ring The good ship bravely in!" PORTSMOUTH OBSERVANCE Ifatl) Af Irfsihnt &UUU AM (pUJWIUi ^ On Saturday forenoon, April loth, when the President's death was an- nounced in this city, the bells commenced tolling, and continued most of the day ; business was generally suspended, and the stores closed. The flags were immediately dropped to half-mast, and most of them draped with black ; public and private buildings were dressed in mourning ; and the great mass of our people exhibited in proper ways the great sorrow and deep gloom that oppressed the public mind. Immediately on the reception at the Navy Yard of the sad news, all work was suspended for five days. In City Council, At a special meeting of both Boards of the City Council, held on Saturday evening, April 15, the following joint resolutions were unani- mously adopted : Whereas, Our City has been plunged into sudden and deep grief by the murder of our beloved fellow-countryman and honored Chief Magis- trate, Abraham Lincoln, — And whereas, We desire to make a record of cur admiration for his distinguished public services and private virtues, — And whereas, We desire to give an expression of our sympathy in the great bereavement of our whole land, therefore be it 24 Resolved, That in tlio death of our President we have lost a rnler, who, by his uncompromising sense of justice, unshaken love of liberty, unyielding integrity, and unfaltering faith, has added new glory to the office which Washington first filled, and has endeared himself to every American heart. ur murmurings, calm our fears; Lift the crushing w< ij Li us feel thine arms beneath, i ih. Thou Holy ( Ine an ! Just ; Teach our trembling lips to breathe, " In the Lord we put our trust." Reading of Scriptures, by Rev. Mr. Daviea. Singing, Original Funeral Hymn, by Edward P. Nowell. dii. what a ghastly, bleeding wound The Nati i this day ! Throughout the land is heard no sound, iw's dirge ol deep disi Mosl hon red ( Ihief ! We mourn his loss Far more than anguished heart ran toll ; bow beneath the cumbrous crosss rjpborne for him we loved sq well ! His wisdom, truth, fidelity, Rejoici d us with his just renown : Woe, woe ! that man so base should be, As dastardly to strike him down ! True Freedom's Martyr ! tears of grief In floods from sorrow's clouds outpour, Bedewing joy's rich harvest-sl i ife within fruition s 6b Will bitti sed? ( 'an joy relume oar heai ts ag dn ? Shall Bighs control the harrowed breast? Must pleasure be usurped by p Almighty Father ! Thou our trust ! We ever in Thy grai Dear Saviour I raise us from the dust, i he il our ■. Eulogy by Rev. Mr. Patterson. Singing — " America. " At the close of the services, al 8 P. M. three volleys were fired by the military, and the whole dismissed with a Bi i by Rev.Mr.Holman.