Emancipation Proclamations

Amnesty Proclamation....

Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865..... . . . . .

II. ASSASSINATION AND LAST MOMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT.

Major Rathbone's Account....

41, 43

45

49

53

61

Faith in God, a Sermon on the Death of the President, by the

VI. THE FUNERAL CORTEGE FROM WASHINGTON TO SPRINGFIELD.. 161

Prayers of Rev. Dr. Gurley

Obsequies in Baltimore...

146

156

Oration by Hon George Bancroft.

Ode by William C. Bryant...

Progress of the Funeral from New York to Albany..

Progress of the Funeral from Albany to Columbus.

Obsequies at Columbus

Obsequies at Chicago.

199

205

206

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212

213

218

Abraham Lincoln, an Horatian Ode by R. H. Stoddard........ 273

Abraham Lincoln, Foully Assassinated, April 14th, 1865, from

I.

LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

HE filled the Nation's eye and heart,
An honored, loved, familiar name;
So much a brother, that his fame
Seemed of our lives a common part.

His towering figure, sharp and spare,
Was with such nervous tension strung,
As if on each strained sinew swung
The burden of a people's care.

His changing face what pen can draw?
Pathetic, kindly, droll, or stern;
And with a glance so quick to learn
The inmost truth of all he saw.

Pride found no idle space to spawn

Her fancies in his busy mind;

His worth-like health or air-could find No just appraisal till withdrawn.

He was his Country's-not his own!

He had no wish but for her weal; Nor for himself could think or feel But as a laborer for her throne.

Her flag upon the heights of power,
Stainless and unassailed to place-
To this one end his earnest face
Was sent through every burdened hour.

Charles G. Halpine.