heard. The answer shines forth with a heavenly radiance' in the whole course and tenor of his administration 2, from its commencement to its close. 3. God raised him up for a great and glorious mission 3. He furnished him for his work and aided him in its ac 4 5 complishment. He gave him strength of mind, honesty of heart, and purity and pertinacity of purpose. In addition to these He gave him also a calm and abiding confidence in an overruling Providence, and in the ultimate triumph of truth and righteousness through the power and blessing of God. This confidence strengthened him in his hours of anxiety and toil, and inspired him with a calm and cheerful hope when others were despondent. 4. Never shall I forget the emphasis and the deep emotion, with which, in this very room, he said to a company of clergymen, who had called to pay him their respects, in the darkest hour of our civil conflict, "Gentlemen, my hope of success in this great and terrible struggle rests on that immutable foundation, the justice and goodness of God. Even now, when the events seem most threatening, and the prospects dark, I still hope that in some way which man cannot see, all will be well in the end, and that as our cause is just, God is on our side." 5. Such was his sublime and holy faith. It was an anchor to his soul both sure and steadfast. It made him firm and strong. It emboldened him in the rugged and perilous pathway of duty. It made him valiant for the right, for the cause of God and humanity. It held him in steady, patient, and unswerving adherence to a policy which he thought, and which we all now think, both God and humanity required him to adopt. 6. We admired his child-like simplicity, his freedom from guile and deceit, his stanch and sterling' integrity, his kind and forgiving temper, and his persistent, self-sacrificing devotion to all the duties of his eminent position. We admired his readine the poor, the humble, TO LAW must and will hanan to t nti msel. wa atness, 7. All these things commanded thetucky, in 1807. eld to ayworld, and stamped upon his life and characte nosti takable impress of true greatness. More sublim these, more holy and beautiful, was his abiding c in God, and in the final triumph of truth and rig ness through him and for his sake. The friends erty and the Union will repair to his consecrated ghelied through ages yet to come, to pronounce the memory of its occupant blessed, and to gather from his ashes and the rehearsal of his virtues fresh incentives to patriotism, and there renew their vows of fidelity to their country and their God. 4 PËR-TI-NAÇ'I-TY. Constancy; stead iness. 5 UL'TI-MATE. Final; last. 7 STER'LING. Genuine; true. 8 CON'SE-CRAT-ED. Made sacred. 1. THE day, with cold, gray feet, clung shivering to the hills, 2. Then sank she on her knees, with eager, lifted hands; Her rosy lips made haste some dear request to tell: "O Father, smile, and save this fairest of all lands, And make her free, whatever hearts rebel. ~y the almed in heard. The answer shines forth wi+leading prayer, of shot and shell. in the whole course and ten its horrid, streaming hair, its commencement to its sweet eyes I love so well. 3. God raised him He furnished him fet that when the glorious fight is done, complishment. rimson sky the shouts of Freedom swell, heart, an there be no nobler victor 'neath the sun han he whose golden hair I love so well. to these men! Praise God!" cried little Claribel. in an o of truthen gray and dreary day shook hands with grayer night, The heavy air was thrilled with clangor of a bell. of "O, shout!" the herald cried, his worn eyes brimmed with light; 5. "But, pray you, soldier, was my brother in the fight? And in the fiery rain? O, fought he brave and well?” 6. "And rides he now with victor's plumes of red, While trumpets' golden throats his coming steps foretell? 66 7. "With victors wearing crowns, and bearing palms," he said. A snow of sudden fear upon the rose lips fell. "O, sweetest herald, say my brother lives," she plead. 66 Dear child, he walks with angels, who in strength excel. Praise God, who gave this glory, Claribel." " 8. The cold, gray day died sobbing on the weary hills, While bitter mourning on the night wind rose and fell. "O, child," - the herald wept, -"'tis as the dear Lord wills: He knoweth best, and, be it life or death, 'tis well." "Amen! Praise God!" sobbed little Claribel. must and will CXVII-OBEDIENCE TO LAW OF GOOD MEN. J. HOLT. eatness, [Joseph Holt was born in Breckenridge county, Kentucky, in 1807. held to av practice of the law in 1828. Upon the accession of Mr. Buchanan to he was appointed commissioner of patents, and in 1859 became posti In December, 1860, he was made secretary of war, and held the office unti March. Returning to his native state of Kentucky, he devoted himsel. energy and ardor to the cause of the Union. In September, 1862, he wa judge-advocate general of the army, which office he has held ever since. T is an extract from a speech delivered at Louisville, Kentucky, July 13, 18 1. WITH the curled lip of scorn we are told by the tied unionists, that, in thus supporting a republican adminis tration in its endeavors to uphold the constitution and the laws, we are "submissionists;" and when they have pronounced this word, they suppose they have imputed to us the sum of all human abasement. Well, let it be confessed, we are " submissionists," and, weak and spiritless as it may be deemed by some, we glory in the position we occupy. 2. The law says, "Thou shalt not swear falsely : we submit to this law; and while in the civil or military ser vice of the country, with an oath to support the constitu tion of the United States resting upon our consciences, we would not, for any earthly consideration, engage in the formation or execution of a conspiracy to subvert that very constitution, and with it the government to which it has given birth. Write us down, therefore, "submission ists." 3. Nor are we at all disturbed by the flippant' taunt, that, in thus submitting to the authority of our government, we are necessarily cowards. We know whence this taunt comes, and we estimate it at its true value. We hold that there is a higher courage in the performance of duty than in the commission of crime. The tiger y the palmed in heard. The an cannibal of the South Sea Islands have in the whole which the revolutionists of the day make ial boast; the angels of God and the spirits of 3.en made perfect have had, and have, that courage its comm He fur complis heart, to the in an of tru of submits to the law. cifer was a non-submissionist, and the first secesof whom history has given us any account; and the which he wears fitly express the fate due to all who y defy the laws of their Creator and of their country. belled because the Almighty would not yield to him orone of heaven. The principle of the southern re is the same. Indeed, in this submission to the laws is found the chief distinction between good men and devils. A good man obeys the laws of truth, of honesty, of morality, and all those laws which have been enacted by competent authority for the government and protection of the country in which he lives; a devil obeys only his own ferocious and profligate passions. 5. The principle on which this rebellion proceeds-that laws have in themselves no sanctions, no binding force upon the conscience, and that every man, under the promptings of interest, or passion, or caprice, may at will, and honorably, too, strike at the government that shelters him is one of utter demoralization3, and should be trodden out as you would tread out a spark that has fallen on the roof of your dwelling. Its unchecked prevalence would resolve society into chaos, and leave you without the slightest guarantee' for life, liberty, or property. 6. It is time, that, in their majesty 5, the people of the United States should make known to the world that this government, in its dignity and power, is something more than a moot-court, and that the citizen who makes war upon it is a traitor, not only in theory, but in fact, and ld have meted out to him a traitor's doom. The |