Curios and relicsFurniture . he doorkeeper of tlierode up in front with the coachman. Therode close enough to their fathers body to. hats ill llic crowds along the Kidewalksd by llir; liiiiidredH as the colossal codinill all its silver ornaments shining in theIt. s watching, propped against his pillows at ? f his house, but it was all a vague dreamhe afterward remembered he saw blackiig on the top of the funeral car. There werehere was at the top of the funeral car aveied with crape. alesccnt soldiers had left their beds in thelospilals to march, out of respect to theirider-in-Chief, and thoug
Curios and relicsFurniture . he doorkeeper of tlierode up in front with the coachman. Therode close enough to their fathers body to. hats ill llic crowds along the Kidewalksd by llir; liiiiidredH as the colossal codinill all its silver ornaments shining in theIt. s watching, propped against his pillows at ? f his house, but it was all a vague dreamhe afterward remembered he saw blackiig on the top of the funeral car. There werehere was at the top of the funeral car aveied with crape. alesccnt soldiers had left their beds in thelospilals to march, out of respect to theirider-in-Chief, and though some were tooIf, there were those who were actually onhobbled all the way to the Capitol,citizens made one of the most impressivehey walked in lines of forty, straight acrossom curb to curb, four thousand of them,gh silk hats and white gloves and marcheds. was solemn, impressive, and unforget->rocession swept around into PennsylvaniaFifteenth Street—and suddenly, movingly,e-and-a-half distance leading to the Capitol. A colorful marclier in the procession was California hunterSeth Kinnian, who had recently Lincoln with an elk-horn chair of his own construction. Lincoln, he said, was thefirst to occupy it—he had fought off hundreds of eager sitters. Another mourner, Frederick Douglass, the six-foot tall, fierycivil rights leader, was one of the first Negroes ever to be enter-tained socially at the White House. He was received by in the East Room on March 5, 1865, and told the Presi-dent his inaugural address the day before had been a sacredeffort. Said Lincoln, There is no mans opinion that I valuemore than yours.
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