The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . t seven oclock on the morningof that day the body was escorted to the Baltimore &Ohio railroad station, and at eight oclock the funeraltrain started on its mournful journey of fifteen hundredmiles to the final resting place, stopping at Baltimore,Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York City, Albany, Buf-falo, Cleveland, and Columbus, O., Indianapolis, Ind.,and Chicago, 111., arriving at Springfield on the 3d dayof May. At all of these places the people were permittedto look upon the face of their d
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . t seven oclock on the morningof that day the body was escorted to the Baltimore &Ohio railroad station, and at eight oclock the funeraltrain started on its mournful journey of fifteen hundredmiles to the final resting place, stopping at Baltimore,Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York City, Albany, Buf-falo, Cleveland, and Columbus, O., Indianapolis, Ind.,and Chicago, 111., arriving at Springfield on the 3d dayof May. At all of these places the people were permittedto look upon the face of their dead President. At Phila-delphia his remains lay in state in the room in whichthe history of our nation began, eighty-five years before,and where President Lincoln stood on the 22d of Febru-ary, 1861, while on his journey from Springfield toWashington, and said, in referring to that sentiment inthe Declaration of Independence which gave liberty tothe people of this country: But if this country cannot besaved without giving up that principle, I was about to 112 ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON. say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than tosurrender it. The old bell that rang liberty throughoutthe land hung silent and dumb, but its echoes will neverdie out, and the gaunt and rugged form of the martyredPresident lay amid the memories of that hall close to thebell, April 22, 1865, four years and two months after hemade those prophetic remarks. The world will never for-get that he sounded the note of liberty, and rung out thejoy of a nation redeemed. It seems strange that a wilder-ness unknown to the men who made the Declaration ofIndependence should give birth to a man so inspired asto fulfill all its promises. During the journey through the nights the train wasbrilliantly illumined by bonfires that lighted up thecountry for miles around, turning darkness into came in buggies and wagons for a great distanceto greet the train, men stoo
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