Abraham Lincoln and his last resting place : a leaflet published for distribution at the National Lincoln monument in the city of Springfield, Illinois . TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT FOR THE SECONDTIME OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, CITIZENS OF ROMEPRESENT THIS STONE, PROM THE WALL OP SERVIUS TUL-LIUS, BY WHICH THE MEMORY OF EACH OF THESE ASSERT-ORS OP LIBERTY MAY BE ASSOCIATED. 1865. This stone they sent to President Lincoln. Li all probability itreached him before his death and with his characteristic modesty heforebore to mention it. It was eventually discovered in the basementof the White Hous
Abraham Lincoln and his last resting place : a leaflet published for distribution at the National Lincoln monument in the city of Springfield, Illinois . TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT FOR THE SECONDTIME OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, CITIZENS OF ROMEPRESENT THIS STONE, PROM THE WALL OP SERVIUS TUL-LIUS, BY WHICH THE MEMORY OF EACH OF THESE ASSERT-ORS OP LIBERTY MAY BE ASSOCIATED. 1865. This stone they sent to President Lincoln. Li all probability itreached him before his death and with his characteristic modesty heforebore to mention it. It was eventually discovered in the basementof the White House. By an act of Congress, 1870, introduced bySenator Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois, the stone was transferred toSpringfield to be placed in the National Lincoln Monument then inprocess of erection. The stone is of conglomerate sandstone pronounced by a geol-ogist of Illinois to be in all probability artificial. It is 27 j^ inches long,19 inches wide, and 8^ inches thick. The upper edge and ends arerough as though broken by a hammer; the lower edge and the sidewhich bears the inscription are dressed true. The stone has nointrinsic beauty, but becau
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