. Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated . w heroic policemen, who placed him in their midstand fought their way slowly and amid great peril towardthe station house. It was a fitting episode of the whole affair. Thecrowd rushing and eddying
. Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated . w heroic policemen, who placed him in their midstand fought their way slowly and amid great peril towardthe station house. It was a fitting episode of the whole affair. Thecrowd rushing and eddying to and fro, the night, theyells, the pale faces, many frightened people trying invain to extricate themselves, the attacked man, not yetfreed from the jaws of death, looking like a corpse; thesilent, resolute half-dozen policemen, with no weaponsbut their little clubs; yet stern and steady through allthose eddying swarms; made indeed a fitting side sceneto the grand tragedy of the murder. They gained thestation house with the protected man, whom they placedin security for the night, and discharged him in the morn-ing. And in the midst of that night pandemonium of sense-less hate, infuriated soldiers, the audience and the crowd—the stage, and all its actors and actresses, its paintpots, spangles and gas-light—the life-blood from thoseveins, the best and sweetest of the land, drips slowly. ^^^^^^^rY^\\]ummm\\ii\mM^^mu^^ [Mr. Lincoln was removed trom the theater to this ad-jacent building where he soon passed away.] [28/] 288 Lincolns stories and speeches. down, and deaths ooze already begins its little bubbleson the lips. Such, hurriedly sketched, were the accompanimentsof the death of President Lincoln. So suddenly, and inmurder and horror unsurpassed, he was taken from his death was painless. -?- LINCOLNS FAVORITE POEM. OhI Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud? The evening of March 22nd, 1864, says F. B. Carpen-ter, was a most interesting one to me. I was with t
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