Abraham Lincoln . Yes; that is my fathers name, Mrs. Bullitt replied. Didnt he preach in Springfield years ago ? GETTYSBURG. 389 •Yes, sii-; my father preachedthere. Well, this is wonderful I him—have heard him is tall and angular like have been mistaken for him onthe streets. Did you say he is tobe shot to-morrow ? Yes, sir. No, no ; there will be no shoot-ing in this case. Henry M. Luckett IThere must be something wrongwith him, or he wouldnt get intosuch a scrape as this. The President dictated a de-spatch to General Hurlburt, in com-mand of the Department at Memp
Abraham Lincoln . Yes; that is my fathers name, Mrs. Bullitt replied. Didnt he preach in Springfield years ago ? GETTYSBURG. 389 •Yes, sii-; my father preachedthere. Well, this is wonderful I him—have heard him is tall and angular like have been mistaken for him onthe streets. Did you say he is tobe shot to-morrow ? Yes, sir. No, no ; there will be no shoot-ing in this case. Henry M. Luckett IThere must be something wrongwith him, or he wouldnt get intosuch a scrape as this. The President dictated a de-spatch to General Hurlburt, in com-mand of the Department at Memphis, directing him to suspend theexecution till further orders. No; we will have no shoot-ing in this case, he repeated, asif in soliloquy. The grateful peti-tioners took their departure, thedaughter of the reprieved manlaughing and crying by turns overthe joy that had come to her. ( ) Congress was once more in session, listening to the annual messageof the President. The year had been marked by great >« -H ^i^-j. GETTYSBURG MONUMENT Dec. 7. Mr. Lincoln said: •^Eleven mouths having now passed, we are permitted to take another review. Tlierebel borders are pressed back still farther, and bj^ tlie complete opening of the ]\Iississippi the country dominated by the Rebellion is divided into distinct parts, with no polit-ical communication between them. Tennessee and Arkansas have been substantiallycleared of insurgent control, and influential citizens in each—owners of slaves and advocates of slavery at the beginning of the Rebellion—now declare openl)^ for emancipationin their respective States. Of those States not included in the Emancipation Proclamation—Maryland and Missouri—neither of which three years ago would tolerate any restraint upon the extension of slavery into new Temtories, only dispute now as to the bestraode of removing it within their own limits. The proposition to employ negro troops had aroused much opposi- 390 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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