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Title: Memorial record of the nation's tribute to Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1810-1867 Harlan, James, 1820-1899
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : W.H. & O.H. Morrison
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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le, inspired with a common,universal sorrow, sadly followed his body, crowned with moreglorious honors as the nations saviour, the same wide streethardly held a fraction of them. Then he was going to becrowned Chief Magistrate of a divided people and disrupturednation on the eve of a great, bloody, and uncertain war. Nowhe was the great martyr of a nation united under his guidanceand that of God, by the successful close of that gloomy war.Then he passed through almost unknown, and the crowd thatfollowed his coach with cheers were actuated by curiosity asmuch as by admiration. Now it was different; it witnessedthe real triumphal march of Abraham Lincoln ; for he had con-quered the prejudices of all classes, and the hearts of the peo-ple who honored him beat with love and veneration for theman. Better for his fame that it should thus come late thantoo soon. This test of his success and his greatness can neverbe doubted or disputed. No city in Europe, upon any occasion, whether joyful or
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• 167 mournful, could produce anything like it, if we regard it eitherin point of numbers, or the class of men who participated, orthe universality with which all interests, nationalities, creeds,political bodies, trades, professions, and ranks united—all ani-mated by one spirit, and that spirit respect for the dead, asso-ciated with a deep love of country, of which the illustriousdeparted was so honorable an example. The funeral ceremo-nies of the first Napoleon, in the streets of Paris, when his re-mains were transferred from St. Helena to the Invalides byLouis Philippe, were regarded as the greatest pageant the worldhad ever known, but the pageant in New York far exceededit. The idol of France received no more devoted homage thanwas paid to the deceased President of the United States bythe people of the metropolis of this republic. The restorationof the dead Napoleon to France brought about the restorationof the Bonaparte dynasty. So the circumstances attendingthe death of Mr.

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