. Book of the Royal blue . e alreadyand has only been dead a few hours. Oneof the soldiers standing by answered him,Yes, hes a damn bad article and wontkeep. Around the scaffold there was drawn acordon of soldiers that pressed against thecrowd and held the people from the hollowsquare surrounding the gallows. Standingin that little command of citizen-soldierywas another figure which was destined toplay even a more dramatic part in thenational tragedy which the coming yearswas to visit upon the republic. John WilkesBooth, the brilliant and handsome scion ofa distinguished family, having tempora
. Book of the Royal blue . e alreadyand has only been dead a few hours. Oneof the soldiers standing by answered him,Yes, hes a damn bad article and wontkeep. Around the scaffold there was drawn acordon of soldiers that pressed against thecrowd and held the people from the hollowsquare surrounding the gallows. Standingin that little command of citizen-soldierywas another figure which was destined toplay even a more dramatic part in thenational tragedy which the coming yearswas to visit upon the republic. John WilkesBooth, the brilliant and handsome scion ofa distinguished family, having temporarilyleft the stage on account of ill health, wasa private in the company sent to CharlesTown by the governor of Virginia to main-tain order during the John Brown execu-tion. Who knows but at that very momentwas conceived in his mind the germ ofhatred which, maturing through the terribleyears of the Civil War, culminated in thecowardly assassination of our big-heartedand benevolent first-martyr President —Abraham
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