| Show SAD NEWS The appointment of Mr Phelps as Minister to England has been a source of 4 great sorrow to all true patriots but more especially to those who fought to save the Union in the days of its peril and who lost their lives in that struggle they died but from their death was born anew a-new nation Among those who fought and died for this country there was one nearer and still dearer than all others in the hearts of those who survived that fratricidal war and most will think that this one was Abraham Lincoln But it was not he to whom all turn their eyes and the gratitude of their hearts in these days when we are united and happy with no domestic quarrels and with no I foreign enemies In the annals of our country his name is found not and as it has been said that the greatest poems have been unwritten so it may be said that the greatest heroes that war has ever produced have never been in battle but have dwelt far from the smoke of the battle field when the din of war and armed L I conflict filled the land Is it asked Who is he of whom we hear so much yet whose very name seems unknown Tell it us that we may teach our babes to lisp it and know its magic power and knowing it become as great as he whose name they so long have held in reverence and in love It may be that the rose would smell as sweet under any other name but it is not so with the name of which we speak for its a name so sweet b that to utter it is to fill the mouth with manna Its a name whose sound is like the music of the low soft lute when it mingles with the maidens voice as she sings in the starlight of a soft summers eve Can you no longer await the utterance utter-ance of this name 0 patient and gentle reader Long have you waited but wait YQu a little longer for the hour of your gratification is fast approaching You would know the name of him who died in youth and beauty that the flag might float oer freedoms land You shall and that at once the Tribune And why should so prominent a place be given this paper as we have shown that it is entitled to Merely because it is the bravest of the brave and has done more fighting and bleeding since the war than all the Union soldiers did during the I war and is more outraged because of the i f appointment of Mr Phelps than those who merely lost limbs in that dread struggle for the editor of this paper has lost his head over the war Over this ap jjointment the Tribune was sicksick nigh unto the death because this appointee this Phelps this Minister to the most royal of royal courts Uiltl not only abused Mr Lincoln but had insulFecl the region in which he himself was born and the soldiers who had died and were dying for the Union Does this not prove that the valiant soldier who penned those lines died for his country and that from out the grave he he cries for vengeance ven-geance But the phials of this dead lieros deadliest wrath have not yet been emptied upon the head of this same abuser of Mr Lincoln and insulter in-sulter of the soldiers who died for the Union We have not said it before but we will now that the appointment of such a man to any office in the gift of the United States is a direct insult to every soldier who fought in the cause of the Union It must then follow that those who are most insulted by this appointment appoint-ment fought most for the cause of the Union and died oftenest But Mr Phelps is not satisfied to have abused Mr Lincoln Lin-coln in1864 nor is he content with the insult which has been offered the dead and dying soldiers who fought for the cause of the Union by his appointment Minister to England for now he adds to the insult which has been offered the nation through him the injury of denying the authenticity of the speech he is reported re-ported to have made in 1864 in which he is said to have abused Mr Lincoln At the conclusion of his denial of this speech he says My views were the same as those entertained by Mr Webster Web-ster and are to be found expressed in various addresses of mine Can it be believed that hell could have born such a wretch as this denial proves Mr Phelps to be And with this denial de-nial before it a paper of such excellent judgment and sound sense as The Nation makes such a comment as this It is doubtful if any person capable of intelligent judgment believed for a moment that he used the language attributed to him about Lincoln Even the newspapers which have been circulating circu-lating it and who are in such deep concern con-cern about the loyalty of everybody who finds favor with the new Administration I know as well as anybody that it bears all the marks of gross and palpable forgery No all the newspapers which have circulated cir-culated it do not know that it bears all the marks of a gross and palpable forgery and some will fmd it sad news and think they fought and died that rebel brigadiers and Northern abusers of Mr Lincoln might be elevated to positions of honor and represent the lost cause To such as these the denial of Mr Phelps of the authenticity of any speech abusing either Mr Lincoln or those who did save the Union will be sad news and they will regret the denial of the truth of the story more than they will regret the many lives they themselves them-selves lost To such as these of whom the Tribune is a chief let a united country I coun-try raise a monument whose top shall touch the starry heavens and thereon inscribe From a grateful country to the memory of those who died afar from the battlefields battle-fields in the solitude of the Sierras |
