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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

EARLY YEARS

The career of Abraham Lincoln affords
a most striking illustration of the possi-
bilities of life in tlie United States.
Sprung from tbe humblest grade of
society, by a wise and right use of the
privileges and opportunities he shared
with all his fellow-citizens, he attained
the highest station in his country at the
great, crisis of her history. Playing as
prominent a part in a vaster and more
tragic struggle, he has received with
Washington the patriot's undying fame.
Lincoln came of a good stock, although
rank, wealth and learning were unrepre-
sented among his immediate ancestors.
It is not certain, but highly probable,
that he was a descendant of the Samuel
Lincoln who, about 1638, left Norwich
in England for Hingham in what is now

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the State of Massacliusetts. Thence
the family moved to Virgin ia, and, in
1780, Abraham Lincoln, his grandfather,
left Virginia for Kentucky, which was
then being opened up by the famous
pioneer, Daniel Boone.

The youngest son of this Abraham
Lincoln, Thomas by name, married in
1806 and moved a year later to a small
farm in Hardin County, Kentucky, and
as Lincoln's biographers tell us, " settled
down to a deeper poverty than any of
his name had ever known ; and there,
in the midst of the most unpromising
circumstances that ever witnessed the
advent of a hero into this world, Abraham
Lincoln was born on February 12,
1809.

In 1813 the family moved to a farm
on Knob Creek, and in 1816 they again
journeyed westward to Little Pigeon
Creek in Indiana ; and here, two years
later, at the early age of thirty-five,
Lincoln's mother died. Life in those
newly settled regions was a hard struggle

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for the barest existence. Privations and
the absence of the commonest advan-
tages of childhood probably produced
that melancholy which lay at the founda-
tion of Lincoln's character ; but they
also matured in him a sturdy self-
reliance and a fertility of resource to
which in later days he owed much of his
success.

The mother was probably too delicate
to stand the rough wear and tear of
frontier life, and hence died in her early
prime. But she seems to have imparted
much of her own gentleness to her boy,
and one of his intimate friends in later
life tells us that Lincoln said, " All that
I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel
mother." She had taught him to read
and write ; she had implanted in him a
love for truth and justice and for the
Word of God which only deepened as the
years of his life rolled on.

One authentic incident of this period
is very touching. According to the
common custom, his mother was buried

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hard by tlie liomestead, and no religious
service was held in connection with the
funeral, as there was no minister of
the Gospel within reach. But Lincoln,
although only nine years old, could not
bear the thought of his mother's funeral
without any religious rites. And so he
wrote oS — and possibly this was the first
letter he penned — to David Elkin, one of
the frontier itinerant preachers, who,
when the winter was over, came and held
a religious service over the mother's
grave.

In 1819 Lincoln's father married a
second time. The step-mother's influence
proved of the greatest benefit to the lad.
She was an earnest Christian, a pattern
of thrift and industry, and her iMuence
over the household was wholly for good.
She was fully alive to the value of educa-
tion, and so far as it lay in her power,
secured it for all her children. But in
that wild region, and at that early date,
education, in the modern sense of the
term, hardly existed.

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Lincoln himself has sketched for us
this part of his life : —

" There were some scliools so.- called, but no
qualification was ever required of a teacher
beyond ' readin', writin', and cipherin' ' to the
rule of three. If a straggler, supposed to
understand Latin, happened to sojourn in the
neighbourhood, he was looked upon as a wizard.
There was absohitely nothing to excite ambi-
tion for education. Of course, when I came
of age, I did not know much. Still somehow
I could read and write and cipher to the rule
of three ; but that was all. I have not been
to school since. The little advance I now
have upon this store of education I have picked
up from time to time, under the pressure of
necessity."

But Lincoln had acquired a lo^ of
study for its own sake, and hence he
became his own best teacher. He read
everything that came in his way ; and
fortunately the bulk of the literature
within his reach was of the highest class.
First and foremost was the Bible. From
his earliest years Lincoln was familiar
with the best of books, and his most
intimate friends are unanimous in the

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assertion that liis knowledge of tlie Bible
was altogether exceptional. ^E sop's Fables,
Robinson Crusoe, The Pilgmn's Progress,
a History of the United States, and Weam's
Life of George Washington were the re-
maining volumes of his library ; and it
may be questioned whether the world's
literature, had it been at his disposal,
could have provided other books better
qualified to educate him for the great
work of his life. These he read and re-
read until they became a permanent part
of his mental equipment.

As the years passed, he grew into a
tall stalwart man, over six feet high.
Ma^ are the stories told illustrative of
his kindness of heart, his strict sense of
justice, and of his willingness to protect
the weak. His step-mother's testimony
is : "I can say what scarcely one mother
in a thousand can say. Abe never gave me
a cross word or look, and never refused
in fact or appearance to do anything I
asked him." He was always roused to a
white heat of indignation by the sight of

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any cruelty to animals. He once saved
tlie life of tlie town drunkard, wliom lie
found freezing by tlie roadside, by carry-
ing him a long distance, and watcliing
over him until lie regained consciousness.
In 1830 Lincoln's father emigrated
once more, and on this occasion went to
Illinois, the great State with which the
fortunes of Lincoln were to be insepar-
ably associated.

EARLY MANHOOD

Lincoln now began to get out into the
world on his own account. He made a
trip in a flat-boat down the Mississippi
to New Orleans in the spring of 1831.
'"' At New Orleans," writes one of his
fellow- voyagers, " we saw for the first
time negroes chained, maltreated,
whipped and scourged. Lincoln saw it ;
his heart bled : said nothing much, was
silent, looked bad. I can say, knowing
it, that it was on this trip that he formed
his opinions of slavery."

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During the next few years Lincoln
was feeling after his life-work, and ex-
perimenting in many difierent direc-
tions. In 1832 he served for a short
time as a volunteer in a campaign
against the Indians called the " Black
Hawk " war. Lincoln's popularity was
proved by the fact that his comrades
elected him captain. He also aimed at
a seat in the Legislature, but was un-
successful in this first attempt. His
election address, crude as it is in some
aspects, exhibits that balance of mind
and readiness to hear the other side
which in later years gave him his pro-
found political insight, and enabled him
to pen addresses which rank high amongst
the best models.

The question of what he should do in
life became still more pressing, and in
succession he filled the offices of shop-
keeper, postmaster and surveyor. In the
first of these enterprises he was unfortu-
nate. He had a worthless partner, who
ultimately decamped, leaving Lincoln to

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face liabilities so large in amount that
his friends facetiously described them as
" the national debt." But scorning any
of the easy and customary methods of
escape, he paid to the uttermost penny
debts for which the drunken partner was
mainly responsible.

In 1833 he became postmaster for
New Salem, and held the appointment
three years. His thirst for knowledge
grew, and he eagerly seized all means of
increasing his store. It was reported
that he read every newspaper which the
mails brought to New Salem.

His influence had now begun to ex-
tend beyond his own immediate neigh-
bourhood ; and in 1834 he was elected
to the State Legislature. This event
brought to a close the first and hardest
period of his ea^rly life, and laid the
foundation of his later popularity. He
had passed unscathed through the dan-
gers and difficulties and temptations of
the wild, rough, and yet vigorous fron-
tier life ; and although unaware of it yet

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himself, liad surmounted the greatest
obstacles in liis path. He was the best
educated man, in many respects, of all
that region, and already he was widely
known as " Honest Abe Lincoln." And
in the Western State, no less than in the
polished centres of civilisation, character
and ability were certain in the long run
to enable their possessor to rise to a fore-
most position among his fellows.

Lincoln's residence at Vandalia, then
the capital of Illinois, during the sessions
of the Legislature, brought him into
contact with the ablest men of the State,
and afforded him many opportunities for
carrying on his education. The only in-
cident in this first term of public service
worthy of note happened just as it was
drawing to a close. The Legislature,
faithfully reflecting the views of the ma-
jority of that time, had passed resolutions
in favour of slavery. Lincoln drew up
the following protest, which was formally
entered upon the journals of the House :

'* Resolutions upon the subject of

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domestic slavery having passed both
branches of the General Assembly at its
present session, the undersigned hereby
protest against the passage of the same.
They believe that the institution of
slavery is founded on both injustice and
bad policy, but that the promulgation of
Abolition doctrines tends rather to in-
crease than abate its evils."

A very mild protest this, judged by
after events and in the light of the pre-
sent day. But it was thought a bold
deed at the time of its occurrence, and
it stands out as a great landmark in
Lincoln's career.

LIFE IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS

In 1837 Lincoln removed to Springfield,
which had then become the State Capital.
Here he entered into partnership with
a friend named John T. Stuart, and
began the study and the practice of law.
He began to manifest an eager interest
in the political life of the nation, and it

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was in tliis rough Western school that
he acquired the ready wit, the apt
speech, the knowledge of men and
things, which stood him in such good
stead during the last ten years of his
life.

In 1842 he married Miss Mary Todd
of Lexington. This period was one of
mental and spiritual growth. His bio-
graphers assert that " the late but
splendid maturity of Lincoln's mind and
character dates from this time, and
although he grew in strength and know-
ledge to the end, from this year we
observe a steadiness and sobriety of
thought and purpose, as discernible in
his life as in his style."

In 1846 Lincoln was nominated as
candidate for Congress and was returned
as member by a very large majority. In
his second session he introduced a bill
for the abolition of slavery in the Dis-
trict of Columbia, and aroused violent
opposition ; it had no chance of passing,
and is interesting only as an index to his

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mind and political aims at this time. He
was not a candidate for re-election, and
this brief spell of two years was all the
experience of Congress he was to enjoy.

From 1849 to 1854 Lincoln pursued
his work as a Springfield lawyer. He
threw himself with renewed energy into
his old pursuits. He had been brought
into contact with other men and other
currents of thought in the national
capital, and it is very characteristic of
the man to note how he realised some
new defects in himself, and how he set
about removing them with his accus-
tomed vigour and application. To
strengthen his power of close and sus-
tained reasoniDg, he gave himself to the
study of logic and mathematics, master-
ing, among other things, once and for all,
the first six books of Euclid. During
these years he was the acknowledged
head of the Circuit in which he practised.

A friend records that upon one occa-
sion he said to a man who tried unsuc-
cessfully to enlist him in what to Lincoln

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seemed an unjust case, " Yes, there is no
reasonable doubt but that I can gain
your case for you. I can set a whole
neighbourhood at loggerheads ; I can
distress a widowed mother and her six
fatherless children, and thereby get for
you $600 which rightfully belong, it
appears to me, as much to them as to
you. I shall not take your case, but I
will give you a little advice for nothing.
Y ou seem a sprightly, energetic man. I
advise you to try your hand at making
|600 some other way."

LINCOLN AS AN OPPONENT OP
SLAVERY EXTENSION

The Secession movement of 1861,
culminating in the formation of the
Confederate States and the great civil
war, was due to powerful influences act-
ing over more than one generation ; and
no person in any full measure acquainted
with the facts can fail to see that slavery

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was the one efficient cause of tiie war.
The battle raged in public life, in Con-
gressional and Presidential Elections
fifteen years before the fateful guns
opened fire upon Fort Sumter. In fact
their opening fire was but the sign that
the " irrepressible conflict," as Seward
termed it, had been transferred from the
senate to the camp.

It was during these fiiteen years that
Lincoln won the heart of the great West,
established his reputation as the ablest
speaker and one of the most far-seeing
men of his time, and by a development
in which there was nothing accidental,
came to be recognised as the one man to
whom in the most critical moment of
American history the new, vigorous and
resolute anti-slavery party could entrust
almost absolute power.

Prior to 1856 the political parties had
ranged under the names of Democrats
and Whigs, to which Lincoln belonged.
But it was a time when the old order was
breaking up and new combinations were

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in tke process of formation. Tlie most
powerful of the latter was tlie gradual
organisation of a great party opposed
absolutely to tlie extension of slavery
and known by the name Republican.

The Illinois section, of which Lincoln
was the trusted leader, took definite
shape in 1856. Two years later, Stephen
A. Douglas had to seek re-election as
senator for Illinois. Lincoln was at once
and unanimously nominated as his
Republican opponent. The canvas soon
resolved itself into the greatest political
conflict of that generation. Douglas
was a speaker of consummate ability, of
great reputation and experience, and a
prominent candidate for the next Presi-
dency. But Lincoln saw deeper into
the true bearing of things, and had a
clearer vision for the signs of the times.

The campaign was long and arduous,
and the voting power very equal. But
Lincoln was beaten b}^ the defection of
the Whig remnant. Like other men,
he smarted under defeat, but he had the

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consolation of knowing tliat he had given
a powerful impulse to reform. He had
done his best, and though apparently
defeated, had won the great victory of
his life. Little as he dreamed it then,
it was his able, high-principled, and
elevated conduct of this keen personal
conflict that enabled the new and grow-
ing Republican party of the West and
North- West to recognise in him their
true leader, and slowly but irresistibly
to resolve that to his hands, so far as
they could secure it, the destinies of the
country should be entrusted.

Lincoln was ultimately elected Pre-
sident, and the pro-slavery party, at
once recognising this as a death blow to
their " balance of power." and slavery
extension views, prepared to combat it
by a revolutionary, disguised as a
" State right " movement. They re-
solved that the Federal Government
not only had no right to interfere with
State domestic institutions, such as
negro servitude, but also had no right

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to maintain the Federal Union when-
ever any one or any group of States
wished to withdraw. This somewhat
delicate question soon passed from the
Senate to the battle-field, and was ulti-
mately settled by the arbitrament of
war.

LINCOLN S INAUGURATION AS
PRESIDENT

Four months elapse between the
election of a President of the United
States and his entrance upon office.
These four months were turned to good
use by the Southern Party. The maj ority
of the retiring Cabinet were Secession-
ists, who devoted their remaining period
of office to disabling in every possible
way the government they had sworn to
maintain. Without any vigorous effort
to check them, seven Southern States
seceded ; and on February 4, 1861,
at Montgomery in Alabama, their

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delegates met to form a Soutiiern Con-
federacy. On February 8 a provisional
government for the Confederate States
of America was adopted, and by March
11 a constitution based upon negro
slavery and State rights was elaborated.
Meanwhile, Jefferson Davis had been
elected and inaugurated President of the
Confederate States, amid wild rejoicings
and conjB.dent assertions that the old
Union was severed for ever.

Meanwhile, Lincoln, waiting quietly
at home in Springfield, looked forward
to the fearful conflict which he so clearly
foresaw, and in which he knew, if life
were spared, he was destined to take the
foremost place. On February 11, 1861,
he left Springfield, and began his pro-
gress towards Washington. At the rail-
way station, when about to enter the
carriage, amidst a crowd of old familiar
friends and neighbours, he uttered a
few heartfelt words of farewell which
enable us to understand the spirit in
which he entered upon the greatest task

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undertaken by any man of the nineteentii
century : —

" My friends, no one not in my position can
realise the sadness I feel at this parting. To
this people I owe all that I am. Here I have
lived more than a quarter of a centuiy. Here
my children were born, and here one of them
lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see
you again. I go to assume a task more difficult
than that which has devolved upon any other
man since the days of Washington. He never
would have succeeded except for the aid of
Divine Providence, upon which he at all times
relied. I feel that I cannot succeed without
the same Divine blessing which sustained him ;
and on the same Almighty Being I place my
reliance for support. And I hope you, my
friends, will all pray that I may receive that
Divine assistance, without which I cannot
succeed, but with which success is certain.
Again I bid you an affectionate farewell."

His progress through, the difierent
cities of the West aroused great en-
thusiasm. But it is significant of
the fierce passions then raging that
a conspiracy to assassina-te Lincoln as
he passed through Baltimore was dis-

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covered, and the President came on
secretly to the capital. On March 4
he was duly inaugurated. It is the
custom for the President of the United
States to dehver his inaugural address
standing on the magnificent eastern
front of the Capitol, facing the statue
of Washington. Public interest centred
in what Lincoln would say and do.
Everything that malice and slander
could do, had been done to arouse pre-
judice against him. By many he was
supposed to be a frontier savage, more
at home in a lumber camp than in a
senate chamber, and who had been
raised to a dignity, which he could not
possibly adorn, not by any native worth
or ability, but simply by unscrupulous
party poKtics. AVhat those who -knew
him saw was a tall kindly man, full of
profound thoughts on State policy, and of
earnest longing for his country's weal
in a time of extreme danger. What his
hearers heard was the first of those
great utterances on public afiairs which

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liave placed Lincoln in tlie front rank
of the world's statesmen.

He maintained two propositions, viz.,
that the Union of the States must be
perpetual, and that the laws of the Union i
must be faithfully executed in all the \
States. He pleaded for quiet thought;
upon the issues then before the nation,
and he closed with a solemn appeal to
both North and South, based upon the
self-sacrifice of their fathers in the
struggle for independence : —

" I am loath to close. We are not
enemies, but friends. We must not be
enemies. Though passion may have
strained, it must not break our bonds of
afiection. The mystic chords of memory,
stretching from every battle-field and
patriot grave to every living heart and
hearthstone, all over this broad land,
will yet swell the chorus of the Union,
when again touched, as surely they will
be, by the better angels of our nature."

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THE EMANCIPATION OF THE SLAVES

On April 11, 1861, the great Civil
War was begun by the South. Their
wish was to shatter Lincoln's adminis-
tration on the very threshold of exist-
ence ; what they did was to still faction
at the North, and to arouse an enthu-
siasm for the Union which never fully
spent its force until the Confederacy
was in ruins, every slave set free, and
the men who scofied at Abraham Lincoln
in 1861 had become in 1865 fugitives
from the power they had schemed to
overthrow.

The turning-point in the struggle was
the emancipation of the slaves, and with
this great deed Lincoln's name is for ever
associated. In the execution of it he
exhibited to the full his great qualities.
He refused to be hurried into premature
action. The strongest pressure was
brought to bear upon him to declare for
it in the first months of the war, but he
steadily refused. He did take action at

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the moment when the proclamation
could deal a most deadly blow to the
Confederacy, and so become a powerful
agent in securing its own fulfilment.

On September 22, 1862, he issued the
great proclamation, declaring that on
January 1, 1863, the slaves in all the
States, or parts of States, in rebellion
against the United States Government,
would be declared free men. On
January 1, 1863, he signed the final
proclamation.

Great was the rejoicing in the loyal
States. It was felt instinctively that
God's great purpose was now fulfilled — ■
that the sacrifices of blood and treasure
were not in vain, that final victory was
secure, and that at last the nation was
free from the guilt of an awful crime.

THE GETTYSBURG SPEECH AND THE
SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS

Part of the battle-field at Gettysburg
was occupied by a cemetery. The

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Government piircliased the adjoining
land as a national burying- ground for
the thousands of soldiers who fell in that
murderous struggle. On November 19,
1863, it was consecrated to this sacred
purpose. The President, the Cabinet,
public men, foreign ministers, officers,
soldiers, and citizens, gathered in great
numbers. Edward Everett, a famous
orator, delivered a speech of great abihty.
But Lincoln uttered the true words of
consecration — in words which came
straight from his heart, and which went
straight to the hearts of all who heard
them, xis soon as Everett had finished,
Lincoln rose, and in complete self-forget-
fulness, under the full spell of the hour
and of the associations of the place,
standing on the spot where thousands of
the best men in the nation had died
to maintain its liberty, he spoke as
follows : —

" Fourscore and seven yeai's ago, our fathers
brought forth upon this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the

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proposition that all men are created equal. Now
we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
whether that nation, or any nation so con-
ceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We
are met on a great battle-field of that war. We
are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final
resting-place of those who here gave their lives
that that nation might live. It is altogether
fitting and proper that we should do this.

" But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate
— we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow
this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here, have consecrated it far
above our power to add or detract. The world
will little note, nor long remember what we say
here, but it can never forget what they did
here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedi-
cated here to the unfinished work that they
have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather
for us to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us — that from these honoured
dead we take increased devotion to the cause
for which they here gave the last full measure
of devotion, that we here highly resolve that
the dead shall not have died in vain ; that the
nation shall, under God, have a new birth of
freedom ; and that government of the people,
by the people, and for the people, shall not
perish from the earth."

The season for another presidential

THE SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS 29

election had. arrived. Among the peace-
at-any-price section of the North there
was great dissatisfaction. For the great
bulk of the nation there was but one
possible candidate. They determined
to act upon Lincoln's caution about the
folly of swapping horses while crossing
a stream, and nominated him. l^Iore-
over he was coming very close to the
heart of the nation. All men of dis-
cernment were beginning to realise
something of his greatness, his self-
sacrifice, his unwearied patience, his
noble and devoted patriotism, and bear-
ing down all opposition the Republican
party nominated him as their candidate
for a second term. His opponents played
into his hands by selecting as their can-
didate the most conspicuous failure of
the war. General McClellan. When the
voting day came Lincoln was re-elected
by an enormous majority.

On March 4, 1865, he stood for the
second time upon the steps of the Capitol
addressing his fellow-citizens, only this

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time in tte crowd stood long lines of
invalid and wounded soldiers who had
taken part in the war that had raged for
nearly four years. Behind Lincoln were
four such years as few men have ever
passed. In 1861 the future was dark and
uncertain ; in 1865 the clouds were still
heavy, but he could see the light beyond ;
peace was near at hand. Looking on
with a steady gaze to the responsibilities
towards the Southern States which he
expected to assume in a few weeks,
Lincoln uttered his second inaugural,
a speech worthy in all respects to rank
with the Gettysburg address.

CLOSING DAYS

On April 4, a month after his inaugura-
tion, Lincoln entered Richmond, and was
hailed as their deliverer by thousands of
liberated slaves. On the 9th the Civil
War came to a close. The hearts of all
men in the North were full of joy and
gladness. Lincoln himself was " like a

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boy out of school." On April 14, after
hearing from his son, who was present,
the details of Lee's surrender, and re-
ceiving the congratulations of friends, he
attended at noon a meeting of the
Cabinet. In the afternoon he went for
a drive with his wife, with whom he
cheerfully sketched out plans for the
future — how when his term was over
they would return to the old home and
the old life. It had been announced that
he and General Grant would be present
in the evening at Ford's theatre. He
was unwilling to go, but Grant was pre-
vented by an engagement, and Lincoln
was unwiUing to disappoint the people.
At 10.30 a man named John Wilkes
Booth, an actor and a member of a
band of conspirators who had plotted
to murder Lincoln, Grant, Seward, and
other public men, entered the box, shot
the President in the back of the head,
and made his escape across the stage.
The assassin was shot dead on April 21
by one of the soldiers pursuing him.

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Lincoln became instantly unconscious,
was carried to a neigiibouring house,
and died about seven o'clock the next
morning. His death plunged the whole
land into the deepest gloom, and changed
the glad rejoicings at the return of peace
into lamentations for the simple kindly-
hearted man who had done so much to
\\dn the victory, and who had now
crowned the nation's sacrifice by the
loss of his own life. After ceremonies
imposing from their very simplicity at
Washington, the mortal remains of the
beloved President were taken by way
of Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York,
illbany, Cleveland, Columbus, Indian-
apolis, and Chicago, to Springfield, where
he was laid to rest " among his own
people."

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