In Memoriam a Discourse On the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The book In Memoriam a Discourse On the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln was written by author Niccolls, Samuel Jack, 1838-1915 Here you can read free online of In Memoriam a Discourse On the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is In Memoriam a Discourse On the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln a good or bad book?
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And soon, like a knell heard throughout the wide land, went the message, he is dead. Yes, dead ! my countrymen. Foully murdered by the hand of treason ! " Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth ; for the faithful fail among the children of men. " Oh ! day of horror and awful judgment ! when, in an in- stant, the bright sky of our joy is hung with clouds of woe. From border to border and sea to sea, the land mourns. It is as if a corpse lay in every homestead. Business is suspended. Grief makes e...very true heart throb heavily. Men grasp each other by the hand, made brothers in sorrow, and heart speaks its sympathy to heart in expressive silence, or through falling tears. Such was the man, and such his throne in the hearts of the people, whom murder and treason, " Two yoke devils sworn to eithcr's purpose, " singled out among others as the first victim for the assassin's blow. Good, noble, faithful in the trust committed to his hands, and standing at the hour of his death like a minister of mercy pleading for the pardon of the guilty, did he deserve to die:'' "No, verily!
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