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Identifier: lifeofabrahamlinco00abbo (find matches)
Title: Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Chicago : Illustrated Booklet Company
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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immediately telegraphedover the country. Great anxiety was felt in ref-erence to the inauguration-day. Washington wasfull of traitors. Slavery had so debauched theconscience in the slaveholding States, that theassassination of a man who did not believe inslavery was scarce deemed a crime. The week of the inauguration was one of thegreatest peril and anxiety the nation had ever ex-perienced. The air was tilled with rumors ofconspiracies. It was well known that there werethousands of desperate men resolved by tumultand murder to prevent the inauguration, andthen to seize the capital. 2\Iultitudes of strange-looking men thronged the streets of Washington,armed with bowie-knives and revolvers. The morning of the 4th of ^larch dawnedserene and beautiful. Even at an early hourPennsylvania Avenue presented such a mass ofhuman beings as had never crowded it before.At nine oclock, the procession moved from theWhite House. It was very imposing. A tri-umphal car, magnificently draped, emblematic
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EDWIN M. STANTON, SECRETARY OF WAR ABRAHAM LINCOLN 95 of the Constitution, bore thirty-four very beauti-ful young girls, picturesquely dressed, as repre-sentatives of the several States; none being rec-ognized as having seceded. Mr. Buchanan and j\lr. Lincoln rode side in-side in the same carriage. They ascended thelong flight of steps of the Capitol arm-in-arm.It was observed that Mr. Buchanan looked paleand anxious, and that he was nervously excited.Mr. Lincolns face was slightly flushed, his lipscompressed; and his countenance wore an ex-pression of great firmness and seriousness. Gen-eral Scott, in his Autobiography, says,— The inauguration of President Lincoln wasperhaps the most critical and hazardous eventwith which I have ever been connected. In thepreceding two months I had received more thanfifty letters, many from points distant from eachother, some earnestly dissuading me from beingpresent at the event, and others distinctly threat-ening assassination if I dared to prote

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