The world: historical and actual . dfatal. Secretary Sew-ard narrowly escaped being killed by a shock was terrible and the loss great statesman, one who could have harmonizedthe nation, and restored the reign of law at theSouth satisfactorily to both sections, gave place toa politician singularly unsuited to the great task inhand. The passions of the war had not had time tocool when that assassination occurred, but it wasevident that the South sincerely deprecated the greatcrime. At first the impression prevailed that theassassin was the agent of Jefferson Davis
The world: historical and actual . dfatal. Secretary Sew-ard narrowly escaped being killed by a shock was terrible and the loss great statesman, one who could have harmonizedthe nation, and restored the reign of law at theSouth satisfactorily to both sections, gave place toa politician singularly unsuited to the great task inhand. The passions of the war had not had time tocool when that assassination occurred, but it wasevident that the South sincerely deprecated the greatcrime. At first the impression prevailed that theassassin was the agent of Jefferson Davis and otherConfederates, but there was no good ground for thesuspicion, and it soon faded from the public mind. Nothing in all the history of the Republic wasmore creditable than the good behavior of the sol-diers after disbandment. More than a million men,North and South, were at once released from mili-tary duty and remanded to the walks of civil of them had long been accustomed to camp sr- ^5 THE PERIOD OF CONFLICT. 547. At THE PERIOD OF CONFLICT. 549
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