Eulogy On The Life Public Se

Author : Thomas Williams
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ISBN 13 : 9781331254362
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Eulogy on the Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States written by Thomas Williams and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Eulogy on the Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States: Delivered by Public Request, in Christ M. E. Church, Pittsburgh, Thursday, June 1, 1865 We meet in gloom. But yesterday our streets were jubilant, and the very heavens ablaze with the bright pomp of a rejoicing multitude. But yesterday our temples were vocal with songs of rapturous thanksgiving for the great victories that had been vouchsafed to our arms. To-day no jubilee solicits us. No loud huzzas - no "aves vehement" - no hurrying feet - no hymns of triumph salute our ears. It is the hour of darkness, as these sad emblems indicate. A nation mourns. A mighty people throngs its wide-spread sanctuaries, to lament its martyred Chief, but just returned from the overthrow of the armed array that menaced its own life, to die in the very hour of his triumph - in the fancied security of its own capital - under the blaze of a thousand lights, and a thousand admiring eyes - and in the midst of the brave hearts that belted him around, and would have spilled their life's best blood to shelter him from harm - and to die, oh God of Justice! by the stealthy and felonious blow of an assassin. In such a presence, and with such surroundings, the chosen Ruler of this great Republic - the kind, the generous, the parental magistrate, who knew no resentments, and had never done aught to deserve an enemy - has bowed his venerable head upon his bosom, and laid down the high commission with which he had been so lately reinvested by the popular acclaim. "Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope the temple of the Lord's anointed, and stolen out the life of the building." The pulse of the world has stood almost suspended by the earthquake jar that shook its continents and isles, as no event of modern times has done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.