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Show LINCOLN'S DEATH AND MEMORY. This is the forty-second anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln, . one of the very sad anniversaries anni-versaries of the j'ear. We thought at the time the loss was irreparable, but nothing stopped the Government Gov-ernment moved on. Still, the plunging and rolling of the ship of state under the wild piloting of Andrew An-drew Johnson were something terrible ; but the storm rolled away at length, the winds were laid, the seas ran down, the sun shone out full in heaven, the great ship righted up, and its voyage since has been the world's wonder. And now we can look back with calmness enough to realize that, terrible and cruel as was the murder of the devoted man, possibly the measure of his greatness exceeds what it would had he lived out all his days, for the storm of the war was spent, the waves were already running down, the question of restoring the South with all its old rights, and the best way to make the settlement was imminent. We suspect that Mr. Lincoln would have clashed with the strong men of his party on that question. We think so, because his intuitions were clearer than those of most men, and his heart was more humane. Had he lived, he might have failed almost as badly as his successor did, and if he had, and a little later had died, 1m memory might not have been much more to his countrymen than is that of Johnson; whereas, now his stature in the thoughts of men takes on divine proportions and makes a companion piece for that of Washington himself. And in history his-tory there is no other such a pair. |