Discourse Occasioned By the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Delivered in the
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Why, if it is not so, has He thus painfully broken in upon the rising tide of our national affairs ? Why has He, at this critical moment, stopped the wheels of our national government ? Why has He clothed the Presidential mansion in mourning ? Why has He put the mementos of death on the arms of judges and statesmen ? And why has He brought such sadness on the nation ? Why, but to remind us that He observes our conduct and holds us accountable to his authority. Such, we believe, is His gra- ciou...s purpose in this dispensation, and most heartily do we pray that it may be universally regarded. 5. I pass other lessons this event teaches to remark that God would show us by it the dreadful tendency of party spirit, and the deep depravity of the human heart. The existence of parties in a free government is inevitable from the prev- alence of free discussion; and their influence, when properly exerted, will contribute to the general good. But when they exist for mere party interests; when they lead to a disregard of real worth, to angry invectives, to unjust suspicions, to inroads on private friendship and public order, and to the resistance of righteous authority, they be- come alarming evils, and threaten the existence of whatever is dear, valuable, and just.
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