Show slows ANT s H hi k A t TYM tris T S ohe has r 01 cecii been proclaimed plair by secession secession orators in this state from los f i angeles to shaana as such lie he has been stigmatized by traitors from every stump in cohoma 91 ionia county men who thus declaimed were re stricter of none ione of their rig rights lits blit oil anthe the contrary were protected in life and property a and n d the rights and immunities conferred upon those who were loyal and true to the government m ent trace the victim of your assassin assassin step by step through his official career as chief magistrate of this nation ria tion you who so sh shamefully amb fully reviled him then placing your 1 kahai upon his g gaping ap ing wound answer in the sight 0 of ilea heavens veil 7 W wherein herein his tyranny consisted was he a tyrant then why permitted he ten thousand tongues to heap their envenomed arule upon him and a thousand pens to torture his every act into deeds or of usurpation and tyranny with a nobility of soul which ap feared godlike god like in contrast with t mt of his traducers traduce rs ra he calmly andi and serenely sere neTy pursued his hia course eom sn forgetful of self gelf atone alone intent tent upon the salvation of his country the clotill clo closing sill and crowning act of his life well wellmay may cause his enemies to hang their heads in shame lees vanquished hosts lay humbled at ili his s feet and in accordance dance with the laws of the land lie he held bed their lives in liis his hand was tyrant eief evermore mad favored opportunity to wreak vengeance 0 upon a fallen foe was it that act of magnanimity 0 and clemency which doomed him to the assassins ass asins hand lest through T it a I 1 t tyr tyrant alt might find a door of entrance to southern hearts or was the cowardly and treacherous act permitted by Provid oneo that with hia blood the last seal of infamy be affixed to vaunted chivalry journal |