Obsequies of Abraham Lincoln, in the City of New York, Under the Auspices of the Common CouncilE. Jones & Company, 1866 - 232 páginas |
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN affliction Aldermen American ANDREW JOHNSON appointed appropriate April 15 arranged assassin Association Athenæum Club attachés badge of mourning bereaved black and white black crape Brevet Brigadier-General Broadway building calamity catafalque centre Chambers street chief magistrate citizens City Hall Clerks coffin Colonel Committee Common Council crape crime death of ABRAHAM deceased President decorated displayed Division draped in mourning drapery EDWARDS PIERREPONT emblems entrance expression feelings festooned flags following resolutions GEORGE GEORGE BANCROFT Government grief half-mast hearts hung JAMES JOHN JONATHAN STURGES late President Lord loss Major-General Marshal Mayor meeting memory nation o'clock obsequies Officers passed patriotism peace preamble and resolutions President Lincoln procession proclamation rebellion Regiment Resolved respect right resting rosettes sable Secretary Seventh slaves Society solemn sorrow streamers street sympathy tion treason Tuesday unani unanimously adopted Union square United Veteran Reserve Corps Ward Washington Whereas WILLIAM York
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Página 245 - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Página 251 - And I further declare and make known, that such persons, of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Página 250 - Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Página 176 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Página 178 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Página 248 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Página 176 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Página 176 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said that 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 176 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years -of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, 'The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Página 175 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes His aid against the other.