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Obsequies of Abrahiam Lincoln.
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OBSEQUIES

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

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Newark, N. J., April 19, 1865.

ORATION

FiSEDERllfe:* T. FRELINGHUYSEN, ESQ.

NEWARK, N. J.:
PRINTED AT THE DAILY ADVEETISBR OFFICE.
1865.

OBSEQUIES

ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

Newark, N. J., April 19, 1865.

ORATION

FREDERICK T. FRELINGHUYSEN, ESQ.

NEWARK, N. J.:
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1865,

Newakk, N. j., AprU 22d, 1865.
Hon. F. T. Frehnghutsen— Seab Sib : In pursuance of a resolution adopted by the
citizens of Newark, assembled on the 19th instant to commemorate the obsequies of the
late President of the United States, we respectfully ask that you will furnish for publica
tion a copy of the eloquent and appropriate address delivered by you on that occasion.
We trust that yon will kindly comply with this request, in order that the proceedings of
an occasion so marked apd solemn may be put in form for preservation.
In behalf of the Committee of Arrangements, we are
Very truly yours, MAKCUS h. WARD, Chairman.
A. Q. KEASBEY, Secretary.

Newark, April 24th, 1865.
Gentlemen : In compliance with the request of our fellow-citizens, so kindly communi
cated by you, I transmit for publication my hastily prepared addssa on the occasion of the
funeral obsequies of our lamented President. Yours truly, FEED'K T. FKELINQHUYSEN.
To Messrs. Marcus L. Ward, Chairman, and A. Q. Keasbby, Sec'y,

PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS.

On Monday, April 17, a public meeting was held at Library Hall, to
make arrangements for obsequies in commemoration of Abraham
Lincoln, late President of the United States, whose death by the hand
of an assassin took place on Saturday, April 15. William A. White
head, Esq., was appointed Chairman of the meeting, and John Y.
Foster, Esq., Secretary.
The following gentlemen were appointed a committee with full power
to make arrangements for suitable ceremonies :
Marcus L. Ward, ¦ Albert Beach,
Silas Merchant, James L. Hats,
Daniel Haines, Daniel Lauck,
Orson Wilson, A. Q. Keasbey,
B. Prieth, Francis Mackoj,
George A. Halset, ^ William A. Whitehead,
Moses Bigelow, William E. Sturoes,
John H. Kasb, Francis Brill,
Theodore Runyon, John Y. Foster,
Thomas T. Kinney, John C. Littell,
Dr. F. Ill, Thomas R. Williams,
Christopher Wiedenmeyer, James M. Smith,
Dr. j. a. Cross, Datid Anderson,
Wm. B. Guild, Jr., James Rowe.
The following gentlemen were appointed a committee to prepare
resolutions to be read at the celebration :
Rev. E. M. Levy, Dr. S. H. Pennington,
C. L. C. Gifford, A. Q. Keasbey,
Rev. George H. Doane.
The Committee of Arrangements announced on the following day
that they had determined upon a funeral procession, and an oration, to
take place on Wednesday, April 19, simultaneously with the funeral
services at Washington, and requested the city authorities, the various
public bodies and associations, and the citizens generally, to participate,

Federal salute to be fired at sunrise, and all business to be suspended
throughout the city.
On Wednesday, April 19, the day Hevoted to the celebration of the
obsequies in pursuance of the foregoing arrangements, the whole city
was Uterally in mourning. Business was everywhere suspended, and a
deep solemnity and stillness rested upon the crowded streets. The
tokens of sorrow were universally displayed upon public and private
buUdings. Upon the tolling of the bells, at noon, the people assembled in their
various churches, in accordance with the Governor's proclamation, where
religious services suitable to the solemn occasion were held and appro
priate addresses made.
At 3 P. M., the procession moved from the corner of Broad and Market
streets, through Market to Washington, down Washington to Broad, up
Broad to Washington Place, through Washington Place to Washington
street, up Washington street to Broad, down Broad to Centre street, and
thence to Military Park.
The following was the order of the procession :
Detachment of Police.
Major WiUiam W. Morris, Grand Marshal and Aids.
Military Escort.
First National Guard and Kifle Corps.
Officers of the Army and Navy.
Invalid Soldiers.
Officers and Soldiers of the Army out of service.
Band.
PaU Bearers. . Pall Bearers.
Marcus L. Ward, H Samuel P. Smith,
WiiiiiAM A. Whitehead, vi John A. Boppe,
James M. Quinbt, • p{ Dr. Eridolin III,
William A. Mtee, ^ Cornelius Walsh,
Thomas B. Peddie, „ Moses T. Baker,
Beach Vanderpool, Frbderice: Wubsthopf.
Joseph Ward, K
Veteran Reserve Corps as Guard of Honor.
Orator. Clergy.
Government and State Officers.
Mayor and Common Council.
Police. Band.
Fire Department.
Masonic Order, under William D. Kinney, Marshal.
Odd Fellows, under Amoa H. Searfoss, Marshal.
William S. Whitehead, Grand Master State of New Jersey.
Newark Mutual Aid Association.
Protestant Association.
German Organizations— Philip Somer, Marshal.
Social Turners— William Knecht.
Aurora, Bintracht, Liederkranz, Arlon, Concordia and Teutonia Singing So
cieties— J. P. Huber.
Fickler Lodge, Benevolent Society— G. Benkert.
Hmnbolt " " " — J. Gemeinder.

Muehlenberg and Robert Blum Lodges, Benevolent Societies— C. Miller.
Washington, Lafayette and Jefferson " " " — Chas. Fargel.
No Surrender Lodge, Benevolent Society— Chas. Seifert.
Mandas Stamm, Red Men Society— John Ltngsman.
Mamakans Stamm, Red Men Society— P. Hanse.
Miamies, Ratuca and Union Stamms, Red Men Societies- G. Stetenfeld.
Robert Blum Association and Benevolent Society No. 1— J. Beisinger.
Mendelssohn and Teutonia Benevolent Societies— I. Lehman.
Shoemakers' and Bakers' Associations, Friendship Club and Newark Benevolent
Association— Schaefer.
Clinton Township L. & J. Club.
Newark Tonng Men's Literary Society.
Trade Associations.
Hibernian Provident Benevolent Society.
Shamrock Benevolent Society.
Erina Benevolent Society.
Laborers' Benevolent Society.
Emerald -Benevolent Society.
St. James' Benevolent Society,
St. Joseph's Benevolent Society.
St. Peter's Benevolent Society.
St. Patrick's Temperance Society.
Young Men's Roman Catholic Association.
Second Division of St. Patrick's Temperance Society.
Citizens generally.
The Marshals.
Bells were tolled and minute guns &ed during the march of the
procession, which occupied an hour in passing a given point, and
arrived at the Park at 4J P. M. At that place an immense assemblage
had gathered. Marcus L. Ward, Esq., took the chair, and the exercises
were opened with a dirge by Dodworth's Band, followed by a hymn
from the German Singing Society, which was sung with much feeling
and expression. The Rev. Mr. Levy, Chairman of the Committee on
Resolutions, then offered the following, which were adopted :
The citizens of Newark, assembled m masse beneath the shadow of a great sorrow,
would express in befitting words their sentiments and feelings in view of the recent
striking down of the honored head of the Nation by the hands of murderous violence.
Resolmd, That we feel the utter Inadequacy of language to measure our astonishment
and horror at the daring enormity of the crime committed.
SesiAved, That in the presence of this awful dispensation of Providence, it becomes us,
the citizens of Newark here assembled, in common with our fellow countrymen through
out the Union, to bow with humble submission under the rod that has smitten us, and
with penitence and confession of our national and personal sins to implore God's mercy
upoil us and our afflicted people.
Resolved, That the virtues of Abraham Lincoln speak trumpet-tongued against the
execrable deed that has cut short his useful life and deprived the Republic of his invalu
able services— that now more than ever the insulted majesty of the Nation stands in urgent
need of vindication ; and that while we would deprecate all vindictive excess, we are
nevertheless of the opinion that the laws of God and the instincts of outraged humanity
justify and demand that at least the chief plotters and abettors of a rebellion whfth has
deluged the land with blood, should not be allowed to go unpunished.
Resolved, That we recognize in the brutal murder of the President, and the attempted
assassination of the Secretary of State, lying as he was on a sick bed and rendered de
fenceless by wounds, the same fiendish spirit engendered by slavery, which, years ago,
shocked the nation with its barbarous violence, and at last lias filled the land with lamen
tation and bitter sorrow, making it the imperative duty of the Government never to cease
the struggle in which we are engaged, until this pestilent cause of all our troubles Is for
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Resolved, That, while we will retain in cherished remembrance the virtues of that il
lustrious man to whom, and whose compatriots, under God, we owe the foundation of the
free institutions we enjoy, our hearts will not consent to withhold an equal place in their
affectionate and grateful remembrance, from the martyred patriot, whose life has just been
sacrificed for their maintenance ; assured that while time lasts and a reverence for virtue
and loyalty remains, the names of George Washington and Abraham Linooln will
stand together in emblazoned characters on history's brightest page, the one as the Father,
the other as the Saviour of liis country.
Resolved, That we extend to the afflicted family of our late President our sincere sympa
thy, assuring them that their affliction and sorrow are not theirs alone, but are shared by
the entire Nation, and that we commend them to the protection and loving regard of the
God of all grace and comfsrt. >
Resolved, That cur sympathies are due and are hereby tendered to the honored Secretary
of State, himself the purposed victim of foul conspiracy ; and that we regard it a cause
for special and devout thanksgiving that the transcendent ability, which has been so skill
fully employed in averting threatened foreign complications with our domestic troubles,
is still saved to our afflicted country in this hour of her severest trial.
Resolved, That we tender to the distinguished citizen called of God in a maimer so
signal and solemn, to assume the duties of the Chief Executive ofiice, the expression of
our confidence in his patriotism and earnest purpose to administer, in dependence on
Divine assistance, the affairs of this great people, with the assurance of our earnest sup
port in his efforts to uphold the Government and maintain its authority over our entire
National territory.
Resolved, That over the prostrate body of our murdered President it is eminently fit and
proper that every good citizen, every patriot, every man who vrishes to be thought an up
holder of order, and a free Government, should now, ignoring party, swear fresh allegi
ance to the National cause, and new devotion to the work of saving, under God, this great
Republic from dismemberment and overthrow.
Another dirge by the band was followed by the Oration of Hon.
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen.
The "Star-Spangled Banner" and "Rally Round the Flag" were
then given by the band, after which, on motion, a resolution was
adopted returning thanks to Mr. Frelinghuysen for his able oration,
and requesting a copy of the same for publication. In conclusion,
the vast multitude was led by Alderman James L. Hays in singing the
grand old Doxology— " Praise God from whom all blessings flow."_

OKATIONT

Fellow-Citizens :
The songs of Victory ; the patriot's con
gratulations at the speedy advent of Peace ; the bells pealing
their anthems of praise to Grod, are sudderily hushed. The
proud huzzah is turned to lamentation, and the land is
shrouded with the signals of distress. A grief such as can
only come to the great heart of a Natioil has fallen upon us.
The kind, the unpretending, the patient, the laborious, the
brave, the wise, the great and good Abraham Lincoln is
dead ! The Nation's heai-t should " mfelt and be poured out
like water."
We bow. Oh ! God, beneath thy rod.
After being called to the Chief-Magistraey of this Nation by
the overwhelming voice of the people ; after having borne,
for four years, a weight of toil and care and responsibility,
such as, perhaps, no other man has borne ; after having
brought the nation through a complication of difficulties which
the best men among us at times have believed 'would engulph
us in ruin ; when he was just introducing the Nation to the
halcyon days of peace ; when, by acts of sublime rriagHa-
nimity, appealing to the better instincts of man's nature, he
was endeavoring to join the hands of this estranged people ;
wheh, to all human appearances, his intimate and severely ac
quired knowledge of the conflicting interests, motives and
passions of the crisis, was essential to the welfare of the Ee-
public ; when the thanks of a rescued people were just being
poured upon him ; when his wisdom and his patriotisto had
taken from party spirit its bitterness, and' all- were uniting in
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testimony to his greatness and his goodness — it is, at this point
of time, at this juncture of events, in the inscrutable provi
dence of God, the fearful tidings reach us that Abraham
Lincoln is dead !
That mind, in all its comprehensive originality, stored with
practical wisdom, to us invaluable, has now left the transitory
scenes of time ! That heart which was moved to active sym
pathy for all in the wide world who were afflicted, down
trodden or oppressed, will never beat again! That hand
which, while it swayed the sceptre of a great Nation, none of
any state, condition or color were too poor or too degraded to
grasp, is how cold and stiff and motionless ! Ah ! afflicted
country, go and mourn.
" It is manliness to be heart-broken here.
For the grave of earth's best nobleness is watered by the tear."
Go deck with mourning wreath your Nation's ensign, for
the second Father of his Country is no more.
When hereafter selfish ambition shall distract and divide
the Cabinet counsel of the Nation, you can no longer com
posedly say, Lincoln is there ! When hereafter an uninformed
and inflammatory press shall assail valuable civil or military
officers, you can no longer quietly lay aside the journal, with
the satisfactory consolation, Lincoln is there I When here
after complications and difficulties arise with foreign nations,
knowing the sagacity and peace-loving disposition of your
leader, you can no longer exultingly say, Lincoln is there 1
When hereafter the true friends of the country, with earnest-
ness and talent, shall advocate two diverse and opposite plans
forthe restoration of the Nation, one crying for justice and
for vengeance, and the other counselling pardon and forbear
ance, you can no longer lay your head gently on its pillow,
under the conviction that Lincoln is there I No, he is not
there ! He has gone! Gone to the reward of those who, in
imitation of our great Exemplar, forget themselves for the
welfare of others.
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Lincoln was dead ? I told but half the truth. Had he died
in the course of nature, surrounded by all the tender assidui
ties of affection, and had he left this anxious world of trouble
for his home above, leaving us his parting counsel and benedic
tion, we would have sorrowed for him most deeply ; but the
heart of this afflicted people has vastly more than that sorrow
to bear. It is anguished and torn by the conflicting emotions
of sorrow and bereavement on the one hand, and indignation
and desire for justice on the other.
In Abraham Lincoln was not only centered the affections
of the people, but he impersonated the majestic dignity of this
great Christian Nation — to protect and vindicate which dignity
all men of all parties would be ready, if needs be, again to
drench this land in blood and tears and ready to give up life
and property ; the Chief Magistrate, who thus impersonated
the Nation's dignity, is not only dead, but is foully murdered.
Let the vile miscreant who did the deed die as he deserves.
But ah ! our President had other murderers than that aban
doned man. He was murdered by the two nefarious Powers
which, in God's strength he had bravely fought and bravely
vanquished, and which were at that moment expiring —
Human Slavery and Eebellion against Freedom.
The proximate cause of this agonizing event is a small
leaden missile and a few grains of powder ; but the real, the
true, the responsible cause of this atrocity, is the two malign
agencies which in these later years have been holding their
carnival of crime and cruelty and causing the land to wreak
with blood. This diabolical consummation is the legitimate
result of the spirit they have been inculcating.
It matters not whether the counsel of the assassin's accom
plice to " wait until Eichmond could be heard from ;" whether
the fact that the day selected for the deed was that on which
the Nation's banner was re-instated on Sumter ; whether the
fact that months ago public advertisement offered a reward for
a man to assassinate the President ; whether the fact that a
scheme did exist to seize and carry him off beyond the ene-

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my's lines ; whether the fact th^t' this plot included the whole
Cabinel^ — ^pfove or do not prove that the itinerant government
of Eichniond instigated the deed. Those who would trace
this crime jtp its prpper source and then profit by their conclu
sion, p>ust accept the trutji that the murderers are the two
foul powprs I h^ve named. One of which, for generations,
has grown rich in luxurious indolence by the sweat of
others bpows, has revelled in the degradation of those
who were without the ability to resist, has severed the ten-
deresj; ligatures of the human heart by tearing husband
from jyife, and mother from children, and has 'made the lash
and often death the sanction by which to enforce its tyranny ;
it has withheld from God's immortal creatures the blessed
privilege of reading His gospel of salvation ; has reduced a
class w.ell called "poor- whites" to a condition little better
than the slave, and has robbed those who would be true to
their country of the benefits of our priceless institutions. It
is the sam.e vile power which at one time by its insidious
blandishments }ias seduced Northern freemen into an abject
servility to its will, and at another time has bullied the coun
sels of this Nation into a shape to it agreeable. It is the same
that has rendered its vota,ries arrogant and inhuman, the same
that struck Sumner down, and which now, in the agonies of its
dissoli^tion, has dealt a blow upon him, who, as God's instru
ment, I believe, has vanquished it.
Thp other murderer is the offspring, (as death is of sin,) of
that I have just named. It is that foul spirit which rebelled
without cause, and without the assignment of any cause, against
the fairest and best government of the world ; which has laid
in many an unknown grave, cold and stark and dead, hundreds
of thousands of the best youth of the Nation. It is that spirit
which has filled our land with widows and orphans ; that has
murdered by starvation tens of thousands of our brave
soldiers, fighting to maintain civil liberty for the worid; thp
same that prompted commissioned bandit raiders to rob our
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has thrown from the track trains of cars, the inmates — women
and children — all unguarded and unconscious of danger ; the
same that has striven, with the incendiary's torch, to reduce to
a seething, burning mass the multitudinous throng attendant
on our places of public amusement, and to send anguish to
every hamlet in the land by the simultaneous destruction of
most of the crowded hotels in yonder metropolis. It is the
same spirit that while this horrid deed was being done, in the
person of that ruffian leaped on the sick bed of our honored
Secretary of State, and with the assassin's blade sought to
extinguish a heroism which every other expedient had failed
to silence.
These ! Slavery and Rebellion, are the murderers of our
Chief Magistrate, Let the vile instrument who, over the
shoulders of a doting wife, assassinated the benefactor of his
race, die!
But come, you noble, just and true men of all parties with
me, to the altars of your country and there record it, that these
foul murderers of our race, as well as of our President, shall
no longer have a foot-place in free. America;
Those influences which transmute the sober-minded Ameri^
can citizen into frenzied fiends — ^burning with a murderous
fanaticism, ready, reckless of danger and death, to assassinate
whoever is pointed out for vengeance ; those influences which
render the stiletto and the pistol, rather than argument and the
peaceful ballot, the arbiters of the destinies of the Nation, must
be torn up, root and branch, ^¦nd burned in the hot fire of a
holy indignation, or we a.re undone forever.
For more than four yea?s ; yes, ever since Abraham Lin
coln had the hardihood, as a free American citizen, to accept
a nomination for the Presidency, the pampered slave aristoc
racy of the South have followed him with the deepest malig
nity. Fashion and beauty incensed that at the sacrifice of
oath and country he would not do obeisance to their assunap-
tion, have plied their fascinating dalliance to insinuate the
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gentry, while the more vulgar with the rapacity of their blood-
dogs have hounded him ; they have exhausted the vocabulary
of Billingsgate for opprobrious epithets wherewith to dishonor
him; they have villified him as a drunkard, fool and tyrant.
And when that miscreant leaped upon the stage and with the
theatrical malevolence of the pit, shouted " iSic semper tyran-
ms" he only condensed and echoed the vile sentiment they
have fostened. I observe that when the rebel leader heard of
the assassination he shut himself up in his house at Eichmond,
refusing to hear the details of the tragedy. Ah ! yes ; did
conscience tell him that he and his co-conspirators, though not
concerned, had guilt in that murder ? He is by no means the
first who has sown the wind and cowered before the whirl
wind. The event which shocks the nation, is not isolated. It
is linked to the past, and that past has its responsibility.
• But come now, you who have rebelled against the Govern
ment ; your victim lies bleeding before you. Look at him.
Did he ever take one step further in your path than you made
necessary for the preservation of this free Government for
your children and for ours ? Did he ever utter to you one
unkind word? Has he done more than you would have done,
if you have not perjury in your soul, if you, as he, had that
constitutional oath recorded in Heaven ? Come, look at your
victim— your eyes may now glut themselves with vengeance ;
but it would be more rational, let me say, that your hearts
should be clothed with sorrow, for there! there! lies your
best friend ! His patient, forgiving nature, was the rampart
between your crime and an injured country. Think not that
this Nation dies with him. No, it lives, and it will live.
Hearts throb and stalwart men weep— but an event which would
have shaken to their centres the monarchies of the Old World,
does not produce a jar to our self-adjusting Government. And
let me teU you, if you do not yet submit to the same laws
which we rejoice to obey, one will rise up whose little finger
shall be as that man's loins.
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sacrifice to thy Nation's existence, rest in thy Western grave !
Those of the opposing party, xegretting any hasty word, not
said in malice, that might have cast an insult on thy honored
name, remembering that not one rancorous expression was
ever tempted from thy lips — and seeing in thy death the in
fernal character of the principles against which your war of
life was waged, will come with those who were your followers,
and both will join with the down-trodden and the oppressed of
this and of every land, and at thy tomb renew our devotion
to the just and holy cause for which you lived and died.
Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, in 1809. He
was the son of a poor man. He derives no distinction from
ancestry, but sheds back upon it a bright lustre. When he
was seven years old his father moved to Indiana, where, for
twelve years the son lived, -aiding in the support of the family.
When Abraham Lincoln was about twenty years old, his
father removed to Illinois, and he remained aiding the family
until they were settled in their new home. Having learned to
read and write during this period of his life, he studied most
assiduously such elementary books as came in his way. His
father's family settled, and he, being destitute of pecuniary
means, hired himself out, some times as a day laborer, some
times as a hand on a Mississippi flat-boat. At this period, and
in these scenes, he learned, by impressive lessons, the value to
each of God's creatures, of his own industry, his own muscles
and capabilities, for that was all the patrimony he had. And
he learned too, in the integrity of his nature, to look upon the
self-appropriation of another's industry without compensation,
as the meanest of all thefits and robberies. He learned the
dignity of free human toil and that it, and not the Ul-gotten
gains of a pampered aristocracy, constituted the true wealth of
the Nation. He learned that the very diversity of gifts that
exist among men in this world — one beiflg rich and another
poor — created the mutual depCndance of one man upon an
other ; for he saw that the man with capital was aS dependant
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his support; and he saw that this universal dependance of
each member of society on the other members of society, con
stituted the equality of all men in society — and that as all men,
hy their dependance, were equal, they all had equal rights, and
thus comprehended that great fundamental doctrine of our
Government, " That all men are created equal." He learned
that it was not "a glittering generality," but a great truth,
affecting all the relations of men as citizens. These lessons
thus learned, helped to prepare him for his great mission.
After having gathered a little means, for a short time he
followed the employment of a country merchant, and then the
business of a surveyor. He then studied law, and soon took
a prominent position at the bar — being employed in many
important cases at the West. He was then sent to Congress,
where he maintained a highly respectable and useful position.
On his return from Congress, the question of slavery was
agitating the country. Senator Stephen A Douglas was a
man of great talent and the foremost debater in the U. S.
Senate ; and permit me to say, while he lived, he was as de
termined and patriotic an opposer of the rebellion as any man
that has survived him. Douglas and Lincoln met at the
hustings to discuss the great question of slavery — vast crowds
followed them, the electric wire carried their speeches as de
livered all over the land. Those debates were of marked
ability, and I believe that neither of those distinguished men
ever claimed a victory, the one over the other. And the
people were more enlightened and educated on the subject
from these debates than from any other source.
The ability displayed and the principles enuncia,ted by Mr.
Lincoln in these debates, induced the Eepublican party, in
ISeO-, to make him their candidate for the Presidency. That
election was one of fearful interest and excitement. The slave
section of the country had hitherto, by threats and menaces,
carried almost every position they had taken, and they now
pointed to the magazine and to ike torch, saying that if Abra
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should cease to exist. Many looked upon this as an idle threat ;
others determined, that be the consequences what they might,
they would lawfully and freely exercise the elective franchise.
He was elected. They lighted the torch, and were preparing
to apply it. Congress implored them to desist ; and, moved
by love of country, to induce them to stay their hand, both
the House of Representatives and Senate, by a two-thirds vote.
Republicans and Democrats voting together, on the 28th of
February, 1861, passed a joint resolution, proposing the fol
lowing amendment to the Constitution of the United States :
" No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which
" will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or
" interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions
" thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by
" the laws of said State."
President Lincoln, in his inaugural address, plainly ex
pressed his approval of this amendment, and it was a measure
of conciliation in which I then deeply sympathized. That
was the hour of power for the Southern malcontents. Had
they then desisted, this fair land of freedom would have be
come a pandemonium where slavery and all the crimes of
which it is the prolific mother, would have had uncontrolled
dominion and sway. But God in his infinite wisdom and
mercy had better things in store for us ; and severe as has
been the ordeal, this Nation, pruned from its iniquity, is yet
to be the grandest and freest Christian Nation of the world.
Having escaped a plot for his assassination, by changing his
arrangements for travel, Mr. Lincoln arrived at Washington)
and was inaugurated on the 4th of March, 1861. And he
whom the vile fugitive has the hardihood to call a tyrant,
thus at his inauguration addressed the South : "In your hands,
" my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the
" momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not
" assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves
" the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to
" destroy the Government, whUe I shall have the most solemn
" one to ' preserve, protect and defend it.'

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" I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends ; we
" must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it
" must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords
" 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 chorus of the Union when
" again touched, as surely they will be by the better angels of
" our nature."
These words had hardly reached the South when, on the
14th of April, Sumter was fired on. Abraham Lincoln
sprang to his feet and called for men, and most nobly did all
parties of the North respond. And from that time to the
hour of his death — in the Cabinet of the Nation, at the front,
and in the trenches around the Capitol — he devoted himself to
the great interests of his country. Others have wavered —
others have desponded, but he never. And now to-day, in
the august presence upon which he has entered, he can truly
say : " The oath which I took before God and the Nation, I
" have tried to fulfill."
This is not the time or the place to follow the varying for
tunes of this war. To one act alone of Mr. Lincoln's I ad
vert. For a year and a half we had been unsuccessful in
queuing the rebellion. Mr. Lincoln believed it was his duty,
as Commander-in-Chief, to deprive the rebels of that which
supported them, and on the 22d of September, 1862, he issued
his proclamation that in aU those States, which on the 1st of
January, 1863, were in rebellion, the slaves should be free
eoreveb.
I shall not discuss the merits of that act. Of one thing I
am certain, that Abraham Lincoln will never now recall it!
Yes, a second thing I know, that on those blissful shores, and
in that atmosphere of love, where all are equals and all are
free, he does not desire to-day to recall it ! Yes I a third thing
I know, the American people, seeing the havoc it has wrought,
will never, never, never recall it.
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us forever ! He has accomplished vastly more than at his in
duction to office he modestly promised. He did not live to
see the full consummation of his labors, but from Pisgah he
viewed the promised land. And to-day, we, of all political
parties, viewing the 'altar where he lies a sacrifice, find our
hearts moved to a warmer and higher patriotism.
It is a delicate duty to interpret the Providence of God.
One thing is certain — God never teaches us to hate any fellow
creature, nor to take vengeance in our own hands. He teaches
us to love justice and to loathe iniquity. And I believe this
Providence fehould teach us to hate the Rebellion and Slavery,
the murderers of our President, more than ever before, and in
imitation of him we lament, and so far as is consistent with
the inflexible laws of justice, forgive as we desire to be for
given. I have not the time or the ability to give a correct analysis
of Mr. Lincoln's characteristics. He is not one of those
ephemeral characters, to which a fervid imagination might add
an unreal lustre, or from which a want of appreciation might
detract. His life and character are substantial things in the
world's history, upon which time, after a rigid scrutiny, will
pass an irreversable judgment. That judgment will be to the
honor of his name, and to the glory of the Nation.
But pardon a word as to his characteristics.
I do not believe in the truth of the maxim, " Vox popuK,
vox Dei," but I do believe that no man has appended to his
name by his associates in daily life, the prefix " honest" who
is not a man of sterling integrity, and he was known for years
in the West as "Honest Abraham Lincoln." He was a
faithful man.
Many gifted men, fostered by our free institutions, have
appeared on the ¦stage of public life, but in how few of them
has the keen and jealous vision of the people failed to dis
cover ambition, the taint of selfishness, and the stooping for
power ? But Mr. Lincoln is believed by the people to have
lived not for himself, but for his country. Eis star in the con'

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stellations of history will be known as Ms, by its unsullied
lustre. As a patriot, he did not confine his efforts to the rescue, or
to the grandeur of the Republic, and so convert even the Re
public, as did the Romans, into a magnifident idol, but in the
universality of his benevolence he comprehended the elevation
and the happiness of all his countrymen— of the master as
well as of the slave, and of those of his race beyond the great
waters as well as to those who are here.
As a statesman, I can only say, that I think he was more
wise, had more foresight, more penetration into* the future)
than most, perhaps than any, of his cotemporaries. So well
convinced had the people become of his superior wisdom, that
they rendered a cheerful acquiescence in measures, which,
emanating from another, they would have looked upon with
distrust and doubt.
A word as to the qualities of his heart. The only stricture
I ever heard upon him in this regard is, that he was too kind
and too lenient. That is a blessed criticism for one who has
gone to Eternity, dependent upon the mercy of his God. He
was merciful to the transgressor, but did he ever parley with
the transgression? The two offences he had to deal with
were Slavery and Eebellion against Freedom. Let the man
in all the world who .has done or suffered more for the de
struction of both become his critic. T cannot be. But he
was tender-hearted, and often and often when some poor boy-
soldier has been tempted to desert, and the military penalty of
death has been adjudged against him, Mr. Lincoln has inter
posed to save his life. He may have been wrong, but right or
wrong, we all love him the better for it.
Of his religious character, I can only say, that he of all men
was no pretender ; he was an honest man, and being so, the
spirit of his numerous proclamations are plenary evidence of
his humble reliance on God. Pardon the recital of an inci
dent. A gentleman, as I am credibly informed, visited the
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the next morning. As the business was of much importance
to the gentleman, he was on the alert, and when he reached
the President's he found it was only six o'clock. He walked
to the rear of the mansion and was attracted by a voice which
he recognized as that of Mr. Lincoln, in a retired back room.
He listened and found the President was praying to his God
for his country.
We need not this proof— the man's life, principles and
utterances, prove his faith. And we may joyfully believe that*
a life of so much excellence was but the preface to a better
life — clothed in a righteousness not his own.
I might detain you longer. I might point out to you what
he accomplished for us, but I forbear.
Let me only say : He has established it, that the will of the
majority, restrained only by the Constitution of our fathers, is
the sovereign power of this Nation. He has established it, that
this Government is not a confederation of petty sovereignties,
any of which may at will dissolve the Government, but that
WC" are a great Nation, having in ourselves under God, the
power of life and of self-preservation. '
He has done one thing more.
When the Eoman master would free a slave, he brought
him to the Court of the Prjetor Urbanus in the Forum, placed
him on a stool, then gave him a whirl, and in the hearing of
all the people shouted, "Liber Esiol Liber Esio!" Be Free!
Be Free ! and he became a freedman.
Abraham Lincoln, as the instrument of God, has in the
cadence of heavenly music shouted, '¦'¦ Liber Esio ! Liber Esio ./"
before the world in the ears of four millions of God's creatures.
Eest now — thy work is done, thy life's an epoch and a
blessing. Eest !
" For thou art Freedom's now and Fame's
" One of the few, the immortal names
" That were not born to die."

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THE EBMAINS IN NEW JEESEY.
On Monday, April 34th, the remains of the lamented President passed
through Newark, accompanied by Messrs. Maectjs L. Waed, Joseph
P. Beadlby, Andeew Lemassena, Peedbkick B. Kuhnhold, Coet-
landt Paekbe and Ahdebw Atha, of the Citizens' Committee. The
Newark Daily Advertiser, of the 34:th, says :
" Shortly after 7 o'clock this morning, crowds of people began to
gather upon Railroad avenue, between Market and Chestnut streets, and
soonnot only covered the entire street but all the adjoining house-tops,
. sheds and windows. A feeling of deep sorrow appeared to pervade the
entire mass, while the fluttering of the black trimmings from the neigh
boring buildings, the mourning badges upon the coat ^or mantle, and
the other tokens of grief, gave an unusually sombre cast to the scene.
" Shortly before 9 o'clock, the members of the Common Council, city
officers, clergy, a detachment of the Veteran Reserve Corps, and the city
police, took possession of the Market street depot, and after removing
the crowd, awaited the anival of the train, whose approach had been
announced by the arrival of the pilot locomotive, heavily draped in
mourning. Its appearance was heralded by the tolling of bells and the
firing of minute guns, and as the train with the remains passed slowly
along the avenue, heads were' uncovered and bowed with reverence,
many persons shedding tears.
" The cars remained at the depot only a few minutes and then pro
ceeded to Jersey City, passing large numbers of citizens who had gath
ered at the various street crossings, and the Centre street station and
East Newark." [From the Newark Daily Advertiser, AprU 2Gth, 1865.]
" A correspondent of the Boston Advertiser, who accompanied the
funeral train from Washington to New York, says of the scene in this
city on Monday morning :
'The incidents of the morning's journey were similar to those seen
elsewhere. Sometimes the track was lined on both sides for miles with
a continuous array of people. The most impressive scene of the whole f
route thus far was furnished by the city of Newark, although no stop of
any length was made there. The track runs directly through the city,
and the space on each side of the road is very broad, and afforded ample
room for spectators. It seemed as if the inhabitants of Newark had re
solved to turn out «» masse to pay their brief tribute of respect to the
memory of the departed as his coffin passed by. For a distance of a
mile, the observer on the train could perceive only one sea of human
beings. It was not a crowd surging with excitement or impatience Uke
most great assemblages, but stood quiet and apparently subdued with
gnef unspeakable. Every man with hardly an exception from one end
of the town to the other, stood bareheaded while the train passed half
of the women were crymg, and every face bore an expression of sincere
sadness. Housetops, fences, and the very switches beside the track
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have become used to thrilling scenes by the experience of our journey,
but nowhere have we seen anything more touching than the simple una
nimity vnth which the men and women of Newark left their awocations
and waited beside the track for the passage of the funeral train.'
" We may add to the above, that Governor Stone, of Iowa, who was
on the train, stated to a gentleman of this city that at no point in the
long journey had the tribute to the lamented deceased exceeded in fervor
and touclung solemnity that here displayed."

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