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SERMON S.

LINCOLNIAN A.

THE MARTYR OF LIBERTY:

A SERMON PREACHED IN THE UNITARIAN CHURCH, DOVER, N.H.,
ON SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 1865;

BY THE PASTOR,

REV. FRANCIS E. ABBOT.

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EAR friends, we assemble this morning, in our house of worship, in the shadow of a mighty affliction. The hearts of a vast nation are throbbing with anguish, horror, and dismay. The pistol of the assassin has done its hellish work; and he, who, by the enthusiastic acclamations of a great people, was declared, but five short months ago, our chosen leader in the march to universal freedom, our foremost champion of liberty, has now become its martyr. In his fall, the country bleeds at every pore; the stoutest heart thrills with fear; and the voice of universal wailing is our requiem for the great departed. Treason, which we thought lay buried beneath the yet warm ashes of Richmond, has leaped over the heads of our victorious armies, and carried by storm the impregnable forts of Washington. To

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