Assassination of Abraham Lincoln President of the United States a Sermon Prea
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln President of the United States a Sermon Prea
John H John Hetherington Drumm
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No guard stood near to pro- tect him from the intrusion of the curious, or to defend him from the stroke of the assassin. Too confident in the goodness of other men, he was always at the mercy of any bold or crafty villain. Like Abner, he died "as a fool dieth. " — His hands were not bound, nor his feet put in fetters, but as a man fallcth befoi-e wicked men, so fell he! Were it not, then, for the cruel fate that thus befell him, our grief had been far less. Although in honor to the high oflice... that he held, onr Church would have ap]^eared in this mournful drapery, and my own heart would have sorrowed deeply for his death, yet you should not have heard his name from ni}- lips in this place, had he not fallen thus through treachery — had he not been cruelly slain for his tidelity to the oaths he had taken and the country that he loved. JJut why should I refrain when in such a manner a prince and a great man hath fallen in our Israel? Were he ovh/ "a great man, " oi" prominent puljlic ser- 10 THE ASSASSINATION OF vant, the nation tliat lias recently mourned losses like those of a Douglass, a Dallas, or an Everett, would have borne his also without such marked and universal sorrow as this day witnesses.
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