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Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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hat Mr. Banckoft bus never surpassed this brief,heroic, and dignified discourse. New York ,could have chosen no fitter orator to bid tho 1great, good Iresideat hail and farewell. ; Across tho land then, home to the prairies,which will greet his coming with all their flow-ery splendor, passes our chief and best. Alougthe way he came four years ago, to do a workharder than Wasiiinotons—ho returns, and thowork is done. ^As he left his home he asked hisneighbors, who knew and loved him, to pray forhim in his strange and unknown tusk. Homohe comes again, and with prayers and tears andstricken hearts they receive him, whom we allknow and love now. Home he comes again,dead, but living forever. And wo who throughtho clouds of our present sorrow behold the se-rene triumph of his life, stronger by his strength,wiser by his wisdom, more faithful by his fidel-ity, more magnanimous by his marvelous mag-nanimity, turn again to sci\e his honored mem-ory by continuing his worj^ in his own spirit. J
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WHAT SHALL BE THE BETRI-BTJTION ? Thib day, the dead bodj of the murderedPresident passed through our city to agrave in the prairie*. Perhaps the sorrowof a great nation is the sublimest spectaclepossible on earth. The pilgrimage of thesesacred aahes through the land is the mostpathetic incident of American history. Thebier of Washington was not wet with somany tears. . Walking mutely past this coffin, and^zing at the face of the martyred dead,half-a-million citizens demand that thismurder remain not unayenged. SeekingBOt to inflame but to calm the public mind,we re-echo this demand with all the sol-emxiity da« to the majestic occasion. Al-though Abraham Lincoln bore the mostforgiving of human tempers; although,Mf&^e he now dictating terms to the rebel-lloQ, he would prove himself the mostclement of conquerors; although, could hisfrozen lips speak, he would say, Deal mer-cifully with my assassin ; yet, if this blackdeed be not punished to the full measureof Christian retribution,

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