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LINCOLN 



may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace 

 among ourselves, and with all nations." 



General Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865. 

 Five days later, on Good Friday, April 14, 

 General Grant arrived in Washington, and at- 

 tended a Cabinet meeting at which recon- 

 struction was the chief subject under discus- 

 sion. On the f , 



evening of that 

 day President 

 Lincoln attended 

 a performance of 

 Our American 

 Cousin at Ford's 

 Theater. A few 

 minutes after ten 

 o'clock a shot 

 rang through 

 the crowded 

 house. John 

 Wilkes Booth, a 

 half-crazed actor, 

 had shot the 

 President through 

 the head. Leap- 

 ing to the stage 

 from the Presi- FORD'S THEATER 



dent's box, Booth Building in which President 

 caught his spur in Lincoln was assassinated, 

 the folds of the American flag. He fell and 

 broke his leg, but limped across the stage, 

 while he brandished a dagger and cried, "Sic 

 semper tyrannis" (thus ever to tyrants), the 

 motto of Virginia (see BOOTH, subhead John 

 Wilkes B t ooth). The bullet entered Lincoln's 

 brain, and he did not regain consciousness. 

 He was carried to a neighboring house, where 

 he died at twenty-two minutes past seven on 

 the morning of the next day, April 15, 1865. 



The immediate result of Lincoln's tragic 

 death was a sudden cessation of the bitter 

 criticism which he had borne for four years. 

 The funeral was on the nineteenth. Behind 

 the coffin, at the head of the line, marched a 

 detachment of negro troops. During those sad 

 days all business was suspended; never before 

 had a nation so deeply mourned. The prog- 

 ress of the special funeral train from Washing- 

 ton to Springfield, 111., where the body rests, 

 was marked by endless lines of sorrowing 

 people. Now poets, editors and orators sing 

 his praises. This simple man, sprung from 

 the soil, descendant of a poor, even shiftless 

 stock, had risen to the highest place in the 

 nation, and had wielded dictatorial power. 

 The United States, never before in its history, 



The Borglum 

 Lincoln 



Lincoln's Birthday 



SUGGESTIVE PROGRAMS 



Let us have faith that right makes 

 might ; and in that faith let us to the end 

 dare to do our duty as we understand it. 

 Lincoln 

 I 

 Song, Battle Hymn of the Republic. . . 



Howe 



Flag Salute 



O Captain! My Captain Whitman 



"Chalk Talk" Drawing of cabin in 



which Lincoln was born, with story 



of his childhood 



Lincoln Longfellow 



Essay, The Boyhood of Lincoln 

 Lincoln, from the Commemoration 



Ode Harriet Monroe 



Essay, Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency 



Second Inaugural Address Lincoln 



Essay, The Years in the White House 

 The Moral Warfare Whittier 



II 



Song, Liberty's Banner 



Music from Verdi's Anvil Chorus 



Quotations about Lincoln 



Patriot Sons Samuel F. Smith 



The Hand of Lincoln E.G. Stedman 



The Gettysburg Oration .Lincoln 



Lincoln, from the Commemoration 



Ode Lowell 



Essay, Lincoln's Kindness of Heart 

 On the Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln 



Richard W. Gilder 



Selections from Abraham Lincoln 



R.H.Stoddard 



Quotations from Lincoln 



Lincoln's Grave Maurice Thompson 



Conclusion of The Building of the Ship 

 Longfellow 



