CONTENTS. His first Protest against Slavery. Resolutions on the Mexican War.. Acceptance of the Chicago Nomination.. Farewell Address at Springfield ... First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861. Amnesty Proclamation..... Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.. II. ASSASSINATION AND LAST MOMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT. III. THE EFFECT ON THE COUNTRY.. Prayer by Dr. Gray. Order of the Procession Captain McGowan's Account. Hon. M. B. Field's account of the death. Speech of General Butler. Speech of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson Speech of Ex. President Pierce.. Sermon of Rev. Dr. Gurley on Easter Sunday. Sermon of Archbishop McCloskey. Sermon of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.. Prayer of Bishop Simpson. Address of Ralph W. Emerson, at Concord. Address of General Banks at New Orleans Services at Union Square.. Oration by Hon George Bancroft. Ode by William C. Bryant. Progress of the Funeral from New York to Albany. Obsequies at Chicago . VII. THE RITES AT SPRINGFIELD. IX. POEMS..... The Dirge ..... Funeral Oration by Bishop Simpson. VIII. THE EFFECT OF THE ASSASSINATION IN EUROPE Language of the English Press.. Remarks of Earl Derby Effect in France. Article by Henri Martin, the Historian Effect in Italy Effect in Belgium. Effect in Prussia. X. THE ASSASSIN AND HIS END.. . Abraham Lincoln, an Horatian Ode by R. H. Stoddard.... Abraham Lincoln, Foully Assassinated, April 14th, 1865, from HE filled the Nation's eye and heart, 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? 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no idle space to spawn Her fancies in his busy mind; His worth-like health or air-could find No just appraisal till withdrawn.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! Her flag upon the heights of power, Charles G. Arpine. |