. Abraham Lincoln : the true story of a great life . ponthe fort in the presence of an assembled multitude,and with ceremonies befitting so auspicious anoccasion. The whole land rejoiced at the returnof peace and the prospect of renewed prosperityto the country. President Lincoln shared this com-mon joy, but with a deep intensity of feeling whichno other man in the whole land could ever saw the full fruition of the great work whichhad rested so heavily on his hands and heart forfour years past. He saw the great task—asmomentous as had ever fallen to the lot of man—which he had approach
. Abraham Lincoln : the true story of a great life . ponthe fort in the presence of an assembled multitude,and with ceremonies befitting so auspicious anoccasion. The whole land rejoiced at the returnof peace and the prospect of renewed prosperityto the country. President Lincoln shared this com-mon joy, but with a deep intensity of feeling whichno other man in the whole land could ever saw the full fruition of the great work whichhad rested so heavily on his hands and heart forfour years past. He saw the great task—asmomentous as had ever fallen to the lot of man—which he had approached with such unfeigneddiffidence, nearly at an end. The agonies of warhad passed away; he had won the imperishablerenown which is the reward of those who save theircountry; and he could devote himself now to thewelcome task of healing the wounds which war hadmade, and consolidating by a wise and magnani-mous policy the severed sections of our commonUnion. His heart was full of the generous senti-ments which these circumstances were so well cal-. Fords Theatre, Washington. Photographed by J. F. Jarvis^ 1887. THE LIFE OF LINCOLN. 2/3 culated to inspire. He was cheerful and hopefulof the success of his broad plans for the treatmentof the conquered people of the South. With allthe warmth of his loving nature, after the fouryears of storm through which he had been com-pelled to pass, he viewed the peaceful sky on whichthe opening of his second term had dawned. Hismind was free from forebodings and filled only withthoughts of kindness and of future peace. Butalas for the vanity of human confidence! Thedemon of assassination lurked near. In the midstof the general rejoicing at the return of peace was stricken down by the assassin, JohnWilkes Booth, in Fords Theatre at story of his death, though oft repeated, is thesaddest and most impressive page in American his-tory. I cannot well forbear reproducing its painfuland tragic details here.* Mr. Lincoln for y
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