. The assassination and history of the conspiracy : a complete digest of the whole affair from its inception to its culmination, sketches of the principal characters, reports of the obsequies, etc. .. . ptain Eobert Lincoln sat during the services with his facein his handkeichief weeping quietly, and little Thad, hisface red and heated, cried as if his heart would Lincoln, weak, worn and nervous, did not enter theeast room nor follow the remains. She was the chief mag-istrates wife the day before; then a widow bearing onlyan immortal name. Among the neighbors of the late Pres-ident,
. The assassination and history of the conspiracy : a complete digest of the whole affair from its inception to its culmination, sketches of the principal characters, reports of the obsequies, etc. .. . ptain Eobert Lincoln sat during the services with his facein his handkeichief weeping quietly, and little Thad, hisface red and heated, cried as if his heart would Lincoln, weak, worn and nervous, did not enter theeast room nor follow the remains. She was the chief mag-istrates wife the day before; then a widow bearing onlyan immortal name. Among the neighbors of the late Pres-ident, who came from afar to pay resj)ect to his remains,was one old gentleman from Richmond. He had been hot inwrangle upon the boat with some officers who advised theexecution of all rebel leaders. This the old man opposed,when the feeling against him became so intense that hewas compelled to retire. He counselled meicy, good faithand forgiveness. That day the men who had called hima traitor, saw him among the family mourners, bent withgrief. All these were waiting in solemn lines, standingerect, with a space of several feet between them and thecoffin, and there was no bustle nor unseemly OFABRAHAMLINCOLN. 95 But the first accession of force was that of the clergy,sixty in number. They were devout looking men, darklyattired, coming from all the neighboring cities to repre-sent every denomination. Five years ago these were wrang-ling over slavery as a theological question, and at the be-ginning of the war it was hard, in many of their bodies,to carry loyal resolutions. Then there were there suchsincere mourners, as Eobert Pattison, of the Methodistchurch, who passed much of his life among slaves andmasters. He and the rest had come to believe that thePresident was wise and right, and follow him to his grave,as the apostles did the interred on calvary. All these retiredto the south end of the room, facing the feet of thecorpse, and stood there silently waiting for the com
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