The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . issue. His mission tothe world has its only parallel in that of Moses. Abra-ham Lincoln belongs not only to his country, but to theworld and to the ages. He was in the broadest sense aphilanthropist. His story will never pall. Men willnever tire of reading of Lincoln. From his humblebirth in a log cabin in Kentucky, on to the end, his lifeis full of interest. This book treats of his last days and of his sad takingofif. Although it contains facts only, carefully gatheredup, vet these facts are
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . issue. His mission tothe world has its only parallel in that of Moses. Abra-ham Lincoln belongs not only to his country, but to theworld and to the ages. He was in the broadest sense aphilanthropist. His story will never pall. Men willnever tire of reading of Lincoln. From his humblebirth in a log cabin in Kentucky, on to the end, his lifeis full of interest. This book treats of his last days and of his sad takingofif. Although it contains facts only, carefully gatheredup, vet these facts are of so much interest, and of sucha character, that it will have the interest of a novel, andinsure it a great popularity. The very name of Lincoln,when pronounced in an audible voice, has a sweetness xvii xviii INTRODUCTION. to the ear, and the story of his last days on earth and ofhis death by the hand of a vile miscreant will always beread with the deepest interest. The facts recordedin this book have been gathered with the greatest care,and will be found both new and interesting. T. M. THE ASSASSINATION OFABRAHAM LINCOLN. CHAPTER I. REJOICING AT THE CLOSE OF THE REBELLION, ANDSCENES AT THE WHITE HOUSE. April 14, 1861, the American flag was hauled down,from Fort Sumter amid the rockings of the RebelHon,and, after four years of war on a scale of astonishingvastness, it was again hoisted over the cruml)led battle-ments, April 14, 1865, and throughout the land loyalhearts felt a thrill of exultation at the thought that right-eousness had finally triumphed on the very spot wherethe first open onslaught upon the Union was made. Thatvery day President Lincoln was full of life and hoi) with a cheerful heart for the public welfare; andthe dark clouds of rebellion, which during his wholeadministration had lowered above, were just beginningto lift and give assurance that the stars were shining be-yond. In such an hour of hope and joy the fatal blowof the assassin was
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