Abraham Lincoln : his great funeral cortege, from Washington City to Springfield, Illinois : with a history and description of the National Lincoln Monument . own, President Lincoln was not our first choice ; butwe have watched his recent course and are convinced that his en-ergies were given to restore peace to the country and union to thenation. This beneficent conduct toward the South assures us thatthe southern people had no better friend in the north than the la-mented Lincoln. 130 THE GEEAT FUNERAL CORTEGE^ CHAPTER XV. It will be remembered that, on the twenty-fourthday of April, a publi
Abraham Lincoln : his great funeral cortege, from Washington City to Springfield, Illinois : with a history and description of the National Lincoln Monument . own, President Lincoln was not our first choice ; butwe have watched his recent course and are convinced that his en-ergies were given to restore peace to the country and union to thenation. This beneficent conduct toward the South assures us thatthe southern people had no better friend in the north than the la-mented Lincoln. 130 THE GEEAT FUNERAL CORTEGE^ CHAPTER XV. It will be remembered that, on the twenty-fourthday of April, a public meeting was held in Springfield,at which a committee was chosen to make arrange-ments for the sepulture of the remains of PresidentLincoln. It will also be borne in mind that the com-mittee resolved itself into a National Lincoln Monu-ment Association. A conditional contract had been made for a plat ofground on which to erect a monument, and the workof constructing a temporary vault, at the expense ofthe city, had been commenced. It was designed to bea resting place for the remains until the monumentcould be erected. By the men working night and day,. (Fig. 1.) VAULT ON TUB NEW STATE HOUSE GROUNDS. AND THE NATIONAL LINCOLN MONUMENT. 131 through sunshine and rain, it was ready for use at theappointed time, although the work was not quite com-pleted on the outside. It was ascertained, on themorning of the fourth, that Mrs. Lincoln objected tothe body of her husband being placed, even tempo-rarily, in the new vault, on account of the locationof the grounds selected. She having expressed herpreference for Oak Ridge Cemetery, it was in com-pliance with her wishes that the remains were taken
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