. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . shouted, TheSuiifh is avenged! The assassin escaped intoVirginia, and found a tempo-rary refuge among the rebelsympathizers of lower Miiry-land. He was afterwardcaught and shot to death byone of the soldiers that weresent in pursuit of him. Anattempt was made to assas-sinate Ml. Seward, secretaryof state, at the same time,but without success. The president was borneto a small house across the street, Mrs. Lincoln,
. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . shouted, TheSuiifh is avenged! The assassin escaped intoVirginia, and found a tempo-rary refuge among the rebelsympathizers of lower Miiry-land. He was afterwardcaught and shot to death byone of the soldiers that weresent in pursuit of him. Anattempt was made to assas-sinate Ml. Seward, secretaryof state, at the same time,but without success. The president was borneto a small house across the street, Mrs. Lincoln, dazed and wild with grief, fol-lowing him. At a little past seven oclock in the morning Abraham Lincolndied, with inexpressible peace upon his face. Now he belongs to the ages, saidSecretary Stanton. From the most extravagant demonstrations of rejoicing and triumph, thepeople of the entire North, with many in the border states, and many in theterritory of the late Confederacy, were plunged into grief, and almost into was there such a transition from the most transporting joy to theprofoundest sorrow as was experienced by the American people the next day, on the. The inivate Lox in Fords theater, Wiishiimtun, winPresiileiit Lincoln was assassinated by -lolm WillBootli, April 14, LSlw. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 191 memorable fifteenth of April, ISGo, when tlie news of the assassination of theirbeloved president was sent by telegraph and cable to all parts of the civilizedworld. The whole people were stricken with a sorrow that was too great fortears. People gathered in the streets of great cities and small villages, and werewringing their own hands, in their great brief, instead of joyously shaking handswith each other, as they had so recently done over great and final victories. But one such scene had ever been known in history. That was when, nearlythree hundred years before, in the sixteenth century, the fiendish assassinBalthazar Gerard, the proto-type of John Wilkes Boo
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