Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865..

II. ASSASSINATION AND LAST MOMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT.

Captain McGowan's Account.

Hon. M. B. Field's account of the death.

III. THE EFFECT ON THE COUNTRY..

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26

27

37

41, 43

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49

53

61

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

Address of Ralph W. Emerson, at Concord.

Address of General Banks at New Orleans

VI. THE FUNERAL CORTEGE FROM WASHINGTON TO SPRINGFIELD..

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 .

VII. THE RITES AT SPRINGFIELD.

The Dirge .....

Funeral Oration by Bishop Simpson.

Funeral Hymn....

VIII. THE EFFECT OF THE ASSASSINATION IN EUROPE

Language of the English Press..

Proceedings in Parliament

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Effect in Belgium.

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the London Punch....

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

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

X. THE ASSASSIN AND HIS END..

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His worth-like health or air-could find No just appraisal till withdrawn.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