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The Assassination
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Abraham Lincoln
Funeral Train Route
New York City, New York
April 24-25, 1865
Excerpts from newspapers and other
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From the files of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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Ctcittlcmni — aHiraljain Hiitrolit, tijc JJrrsi&cnt of tfje Onitctr States, is ItralJ. 2©itij iitrpprrssillc fjorror £ an= nouiicc to i>ou tjis rbcnt, roujjlrH as it toas toitf) biolriicc. Sust at tijc momrnt lufjrit peace IicQau its iJatoit obrr an afHictrtr lantr, tijis tirratitiil tiloto fell on Ijtin on tofjom its Ijcstinics scemeti to HepenU.
Your JD^onoraiilr a3oi3i>, £■ am sure, toill taftc appropriate action, in faiclo of tijis aiuful iiispcnsation, to sijjnifi.' tijose sentiments of pulilic respect anlr grief, Jrue alific to tije cpaltcij station anU fearful Ueatf) of tije ©Ijicf fttagistratc of tfje jninitelr States, toijicl) noiu pcrbalie our toI)oIc people, aniJ f)abc plunscU tjem m unibcrsal liistrcss anli miscrj?.
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WIS '^ tv £ as , Ef)e fifrc^j gloom iioto }jrrfaalitng tje jieoprc of tfjis citJ»; tSc rrtrrunl ntanifrstatioii of sorrotu anir grfcf ti)at IS rrjirrsscJi oit rbrrn rouittcnaurc; tijat is seen bn tf)c flags, so latrli) flasljiug triuntpijaiTtln front a tfjousantt staffs, noto trailing mournfulln at f)alf=inast; in tf)c trarfe anfir somfirc Irraprrirs itoto flotning oit our jjulilic ana pribatc Imil&ings, aiiJj in ti)c uiiibrrsal Iirsponliriiri) so bibiJjIi) portranrSr fitj tj)c tDorJjs aiiO actions of tijosr of our ritijcns, lnj)0, liut Bestrr&as, torrc rjrulting anir jonous ofarr tfjc fonir anticipation of a rc= gcnrratrlr anfir unitclr countri.', informs us, in tijc most unmis* tafeablc manner, t[)at a fitrcalrtul calamitn ijas fallen upon our countrn; tfjat Cfofir f)as, for some toisc purpose of Jliis obon, anir to reminfir us, in tijc most forcible manner, of our total IrepenBrenre upon ?i)im, firasfjcfif tfjc cup of glafirness from our
lips, aittr f)ns siifistitutrti for tt one of t\jc hittcvcst sorroto; ait& It IS, in bcrn trcclr, a sorrolnful trnj) for our rountri?. ©itr (fTfjirf ittasistrntr, rijosrn to jjrrsitrt obcr tfjc trcstiiiirs of tf)irti) millions of people, fias firm stricfecu itotoir in tljc IjanH of mi assassin, an& notu lies, an inanimate rorpsr, at tf)c CTapital of tijr nation Ijc I)atr sabcJi. Slliraijam Hinroln, J3rrs« iHrnt of tijc SlnitrB States, Jjas tjjus firm rallrB, suJi&rnls anlr itnrvprrtrDIi), irforr tijc jjiulismrnt Scat, antr our tofjolc rountri) is rallrB upon to mount f)is loss. Z'&dl man tfjc propic mourn. JLYis loss to tijrm is irrrparalilc ; anii,
OTfjcrcas, in tJjr unibrrsal sorrotu for t[)c irratij of tl)c cprrat anlr tjooti man — tijc .sabior of tJjc lirpulilir — anlt of rrcrration at tfjr manner of i)is tiratlj, anlr tfjr bile instrument tijat aeeomplisJjelr it, it is t[)e manifest net sorrotoful irutn of tJje Common Council to participate. ?i.)c bras fast lieromina tf)c ilrol of our people, inelulrina tl)ose luf)o at tlje commnTcc= mmt of J)is career Iroulitelr tlje toislrom anlr intcfiriti? of Ijis
motibcs. 3l)is molitration in tjc Jour of trinntpij obcv ti)c enemies of i)is rountri?; ijis gcnerositn nntr masnantmitj? to tjr fallrii fors of tljc jtvcpulilir ; fjis lrrtfrmine&, Hiistorrbins ntijcrrnrr to toi)nt jjc roitsitrrrra tijr best interests of tjje nation ; J)is earnestness of pnrpose, anlr iiet true repuIiUean binlrness anJr affabiliti) of cijaractcr anii simplieit)) of manner — a simplicitn tfjat eost i)int ijis life, as it inHneeii fjim to a'joili tafeing site!) preeautions as tooulli ijabe prebentca tje occnr= reucc of surij a calamity as is [jis ireati) — Jatr enlrcare& j)im to tlje people, anlr [)a& IrJr tijrm to resarli f)int as one pe= culiarl" ftttclr, if not preaestineJi, to sabe tije llepublie from Srismemberment, anU to restore tfje conntrn to tfje blessings of a lasting peace, an& of inauguratins a fnture of nnparaU leleir prosperitn anti l)appiness; be it, tijerefore.
1* e s 0 I b e ir , STfjat, in orber to gibe expression to tlje sorrotD ctperiencelr bn tfje people of tijis citi) for l)is JrcatJ. ana in orSer to afforb tijem an cpportnnitn of manifesting
tfjrir grtrf, tfjr piililir offirrs anlr liuilliinQS of tijc Corporation lie riosrir for tfjc trcinsntrtton of fiusiitrss, until tjjr Srni) sitc= ccctttng tjfjc solrmnijntion of fjis funeral ritrs anlr rrrrmonics ; tijat iJDC rccommcnir to our citttcus, also, to rlosc tijcir vt- spcctibc places of Justness for tjc same perioJr; tfjat tije flaas be Jrisplanelr on all tijt pufiUc l)uillring;s, anfir tfje otoners or occupants of prifaatc builiiinss, ana tlje masters antt otoners of tl)c sljipping in our f)ari)or, lie requestetr to ttisptan ti)eCr flags at f)alf=mast Jruring tlje same periolr; tljat tje eljamljers of earl) branrl) of tlje (Common (ftouneil, an& tl)e public ljuil&= trings anft offices be trrapeU in mourning for a periolr of tl)irtn lrai»s; anlr tljat a Special Committee of fibe members from eacl) branrlj of tl)e Common Council be appointeU to perfect tljc abobe, anfir to mafee suclj otijer arrangements as in tijcir I'u&gment man seem fitting anlr appropriate, to tcstifi? tljrir sorroto for tl)e iieati), autt tljcir respect for tlje memorn of tl)c illustrious Ircccascii.
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Bbtant'b Oub voa. tub Bokixl or AuaA- HA-u LiMCOLN. At tho great meeting; in Ncvr York on Tuf<Kifty afwmoou, tho followinij ode, Wiiiien b/ William C Uiyuut oa^'uwUa/ uiom- iujj, was read by Ucv. Dr. 0«;:ood :
Oil, "low to Hinito anil awiil to rii.dra,
Gentle, ami uii-reilul, and Just I ^\'h", in tho leiir ol Odd, didst bi-ivr
'I'bu Bword of i)OWur, u uutiou'u iriu>t.
In iiorrow by tliy bur we nland, Amid the awe that I'U-ibea ;iil. And .■'lioiiU the Hni;ul.-.h oi ii l.md I Thai fhuok >vith hunur at thy tail.
Thy tiihk la (louo;
tile hind are irei"; iieiu' thoo to un h.niorod ijravj,
Tho brokou loltera ol the sl.ivo.
rui-e wuH thy life; it^ hlmi.l^ tlo^o
llalh jihiced thee vvilh tli.i .sjiis ol' lirfht,
AniiaiK tlie noble host ol' tho^>
\Vhy pcri.-<lied In theoause of rl;,'Ut.
Mn. IIanouoft'b Funekai. Okatiox ou Mr. l.iimilii i- published id yo-tfi-.i..y'a New York I'MiKTS. In I'unx; of tbon^it, coniprid-<iou o' niaticr, and di^Cnity of tone, it ranU.s wdti the lublcai pioilucis ol biM mind. W'r j;ivu b.l.)A' the I onion.-- ri Uiliu^to ti o I'lotlamaiioiiol' Km luripj- lioi), the "iiriiniu-y iille;;iiincii" ol tiic nUvo.-i, tho I onbiitnlioiial Amcudiiiuut, iiuj thcu>urii.itiou of General Sl.crinuu:
Above overjlhiiig obic, hlb Jjrjclnm ition of tho Brit d:iy of Jiiuuaij, IhOJ, dechain;; thiJUi,'hout the jiiirlu of tho country in rebellion Ihu iVe^vijm of all l,ci>ons who havo boon held i\» slaves, must bo af Iliuiod and uniintiuuod. liventd, us th.-y roUod on- ward, have removed every doubt of the Ijg ility and biudinc Ibrce cf that proelauiation. Tao cDUntry and the Ktbel Governniont have each I.iidclaliu to the public oervlce of the blavu, an.l yet but one o the two can havo a rl{,'htlul claim to .~ueh s ;rvico. That iit;htful claim belon'js to tho United St iteJ, bocau30 every one born on their 8oil, with the fjv oxoiptlona ol the children of travellers and tiaiiMlcut residents, owes Iheni a primary idleKi.Jiee. Every one so b)rn has been cc.untcd ainone those roprejentel m Oon- t;rena; e\cry hlave has over been rcprcsepteJ In Con- t'reSii— imperfectly and wrongly it may— but still has been counted and ropresenled. The slave born on our soil owed aJlegianco to tho (genera) covernmjnt. It may in time past ha >o been a qualilied allegiance, iiiauilcsled throU},'b bis master, aa the allegiance of a V aid through its guarillan or of lui infant throuijU ita parent. Eat when the master becauk) false tJ bis alletriaiice, tho slavo utood luce to lace \vTtli his coun- try, and his allegiance, which may bol'jro havo bean a qualilied one, becamo direct and immodiato. Hij chains foil oil, and he stood at onco In tho prosjnce of the nation, bound like tho Tc»t of lu to Ita public defence.
6ir. Lincoln's proclamation did but take notice of the already exiatini; "right of tho bonJiuan to fVea- doni. Tho trea^ou of Ixie master mado it a publio crime tor the slave to continue his ub.'lianja; the lien.'-oH of a Stjito set tree the collective bon Imen of that Slate. This doctrine i.^ supported by the analD- i;y ol precedents. Inthe times otfeulaMsni the trea- son ol the lord of the manor deprived him of his eerfj; the spurious feudalism that e.'itsted amou,' uj dirt'ota In niany respects from the feudalism of thj ml Idle ages; but so lar the precedent runs i>arallol with the pienutciUie; for treasun tho mn.ster then, for trea- son the master now, loees his slaves. In the mlJdIe ages the sovereign liiiiiointed another lord over the berlb and the land which thoy cultivated; in our day, the sovereign makes them m.istqjy of their own per- s\]ps. lords over themselves. It has been said that we are at war, and that emancipation is not a belliijerout riiiht. Tho objection aisappeara befjro analysis. In a war between nidepondent powers the invading for- eigner invites to his stamlard all who will give him aid, whether bond or (roe, and he rewards thorn ac- cordmp to hie ability and his pleasure with giltS or fieeULUi; but when at pcaco he withdraws from the invaded country he n\ust talie his aiders and couitort- trs with him ; or if he leaves them behind, where ho bus no com t to enforce his de<^iees, ho can give them no ficciuity, unlebs it be by tho Htipulatious of a ticuty.
In a civil war it is altO''ether different. Thcro, when rebellion is crushed, the old (ioverum.-nt isroj- tcred, nnd its courts resume their jurisJIctiin. Sj it is with us; the United .States liavo courts of thoir IV 11, that must punish the guilty of treason and vin- dicate the freedom of i>ersons whom the fact ol rj- bellion bus sot free. Kor may it bj wud that Iccaute slavery existed in nui^tof tho States when the Uni n was formed, it ciinnot rlfrhHuUy ha inter- lered with new. A change ha-s talieu place, such as Wailibon foretaw, and for which bo pointed out tUj rimt-dy. Tho Constitutions of .Staos haJ bjsn trnrslormed before tho plotters of trevon cirriod Hum away into reliellion. When the Ke ler.il IJju- { sililulicn was formed, general emaneipati.m was lb ught to be near; and cvoryHhero tlio re.npjotiv'O I legislatures hud auth'iitv, in tho e.xerclso of their j f lu nary liinctions, to do aw:;y with slavery; since I that tinio tho attempt has been m uio in what are ' celled t-lave Slates to make the eo;iditi.in of si ivorv pen'etual; and events have luoved with tho cloar- iit^b of demonstration, th.it a c uistdiitiju which se^ka to continue a caste of here iitary b)ndm3n throutrh cDdlesf generations is ineoiisisleiit with tUo eiiistence ol republican in.stitutions. So, t'.ion, tUo new rre.-ident and the poople ol the United States ' mvi^t Im-ist that tho proclamation of freemen bhall | stand UH a realitv.
And, moreover, tho people must never cene ti In- blttllatlho Coiislllntion Bhall bj bo ammidud ai ut- terly to prohibit .Slavery on any part of our soil fu cNeiniore. Alas! that a .State In our vicinity bboul i NMliihiilil ilsuMiiit to thi,-) la.tt beneilcicnt luek.iure; Us ri Altai was un encouragoimut to uur eneiiiiei eipial to the gain of a pitched battle; and doi.ita llio enU hiipclul imthud iif |.;icilleation. The rem ival ul lhec;.uso(.f the llebellion is not oiilv demanded by JoHtieo; It Is the policy of mercy, making room lor a widir clemency; It is the part ol order against a chuoB (if ci'iilrovi r->y ; Us buccess biiu ,'s wilh It true rceoiicllenieiit, a letting peace, a eontinu lus growth ol Conlidence throui.h an a-,siniiliition of the sxt lal ceiidilloii. Here is tho lilting oxpruosiou of thu Uiourning of today.
And let no lover of his conntrv say thai Ihi . warn- ing is uncalled for. The cry Is ilelu-ive that S!,i\ery ;j (lead. Even now it is n.irving llM-lf lor a iVenh btrngglo liir ccntinuance. The lust winds from tho South wait to us Ihu sad Intelligence that a man, who hud surrendered himself w ith thu glory of the most brilliant and most varied achievements, wli.ibut a j v.eek ago was named «llh ulieetiunate p.ide aiii ing the greatest beneliictora of his country and the abli^it generalM of all tmn.-, has m-urped miir.i than tho whole power of tho Executive, and under the nnnie of iteace has revived Slavery and given security ami liolltleal iKiwer to traitors "from the Chesap -ako to the Kio (irande. Why could ho not reinenibor the dying aihico of Wa.shington, never to diaw the bword but for self-delenco or the rights of hi.scountry, and when drawn, never to sheath it till its work should be acconiplislied? And yet from this ha 1 act.
which the people with one united voice condemn, mi great evil will loUow s.ivt3 tho shallow of his own fame. Tho Imlividual, even in tho greatnesi of mil- itary glory, sinks into Insignilicauco before the re- sistless movcmuuts lu the history of man,
VIEWING LINCOLN'S REMAINS.
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PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S FUNERAL— KEMOVAL OF THE BODY FROM THE CITY HALL TO THE FUNERAL CAR, NEW YORK, April 25, 18C5.
•;:THE PRESIDENT'S FUNEBAIi IN NEW YORK.
\- All the beautiful diiy on Tuesday, when the jdearly beloved Trosident was borne through tlio .great city, it wua iinpotisiblo not to fuel that, 'however inipa^dionod and tender all' the prtiturv 'might be, no oration could be so eloquent as the upcctftclo of the vast population, huslied and ibureheuded, under the bright spring eky, gazing npoi) his coffin. It was one of the most iinpos- :^ig uud touching pageants ever seen. From windows and house-tops and balconies, from ,^rees and posts and door-steps, tho multitude ' looked silently on, themselves a striking part of • tlia scene they admired. The broad street was clear, and on both the walks tho crowd was ;.|olid. The piessure at times was frightful, but the throng was mainly good-humored; and .-Wliou the fuuerul car ajiproached tho reverent ;«iJeuce was profoundly impressive. Nothing t«rns heard as it passed but the regular footfall of the troops, the dull roll of the muffled drnms, and the occasional tolling of a" bell far away. The sober aspect of tho people all the day, the wailing peals of minor mnsic from the hundred bands, the houses draped with mourning, the innumerable flags bound with black and hang- ing at half-mast, the profuse and accumulated signs of i true sorrow, have made the day for- ever memorable to all wha looked on.
Aa the solemn and statgly car went by, hold- ing proudly up, under the canopy and among tho flowers, the sUver-fringed coflin of the mar- . tyr, _hi8 own words ovei'tho dead at Gettysburg were the most fitting: "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." For . his great work here was the noble use of quali- ties without which no public man can be sin- cerely lamented nor any state safe. . Abraham ■ liNCOLN triumphed by Ms honesty, by^ his fidel- ity, by his magnanimity, by his prudence, by his -moderation. His greatness was his eminence in the characteristics which our public men have most wanted. He was called slow and doubt- >tul,.a man needing to ^ pushed and pulled, . While his steadfastness was sublime. He moved toward his purpose as surely is the year unfolds from spring into summer. There are chilly days, and clouds, and showers, and sometimes frosts, but the blossom is steadily opening into the flower, and the flower "ripening into the iruit, and ever the air is softer and kinder It was so with him, and so the popular trust in him grew. No man imagined what a hold he bad upon the national heart until the elec- tion. The revelation was startling. It was MjnvQluntarj.£Jhute to ohw-acter without par-
4''^siltl7' Arid "how imuch closer even than theft tho bond that bound him to the people this truly grieving country shows.
The oration ift Union Square by Mr. Ban- CHoiT was noble. Its lofty tone, its nuisicrly comprehensiveness, its sincere eloquence, and the nervous purity of its style, distinguish it among all the Cne addresses which the melan- choly event has iuipircd. It ttMum to us that
Mr. Banckoft bus never surpassed this brief, heroic, and dignified discourse. New York , could have chosen no fitter orator to bid tho 1 great, good I'resideat hail and farewell. |
Across tho land then, home to the prairies, which will greet his coming with all their flow- ery splendor, passes our chief and best. Aloug the way he came four years ago, to do a work harder than Wasiiinoton's — ho returns, and tho work is done. ^As he left his home he asked his neighbors, who knew and loved him, to pray for him in his strange and unknown tusk. Homo he comes again, and with prayers and tears and stricken hearts they receive him, whom we all know and love now. Home he comes again, dead, but living forever. And wo who through tho clouds of our present sorrow behold the se- rene triumph of his life, stronger by his strength, wiser by his wisdom, more faithful by his fidel- ity, more magnanimous by his marvelous mag- nanimity, turn again to sci\e his honored mem- ory by continuing his worj^ in his own spirit.
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WHAT SHALL BE THE BETRI- BTJTION ?
Thib day, the dead bodj of the murdered President passed through our city to a grave in the prairie*. Perhaps the sorrow of a great nation is the sublimest spectacle possible on earth. The pilgrimage of these sacred aahes through the land is the most pathetic incident of American history. The bier of Washington was not wet with so many tears.
. Walking mutely past this coffin, and ^zing at the face of the martyred dead, half-a-million citizens demand that this murder remain not unayenged. Seeking BOt to inflame but to calm the public mind, we re-echo this demand with all the sol- emxiity da« to the majestic occasion. Al- though Abraham Lincoln bore the most forgiving of human tempers ; although, Mf&^e he now dictating terms to the rebel- lloQ, he would prove himself the most clement of conquerors ; although, could his" frozen lips speak, he would say, Deal mer- cifully with my assassin ; yet, if this black deed be not punished to the full measure of Christian retribution, the murdered man's sepulcher — be it locked, and barred, and . monumented — will not be able to confine hia troubled ghost from wandering through the unquiet land and moaning at his wrongs unredressed.
But what measure of vengeance can equal the stupendous crime 1 Though the assassin were sawn asunder, yet would not the otfeuse be atoned, nor justice ba appeased. The vial of retributive wrath is too large and full to be squandered upon the single head of a trembling wretch who
now skulks from the eye of the world. liet the great punishment fall upon the first, the chief, the arch criminal in this •crime of crimes. The murderer of the President is BLAVEKY. The conspirator" against the Republic is SLAVERY. The hideous, ghastly Rebellion is SLAVERY. Ifow let an aroused nation lift its arm to the hight of its great duty, and with a final blow annihilate Slavery for ever I O New Jersey, Kentucky, Delaware ! look at this good man's bloody wounds, and blush tor your own complicity in this deed of de&ih t Behold the victim, and remember ^th penitence how ruthlessly yoa voted 1o strengthen the arm that dealt the blow !
Let the American people, when they shall have buried the corpse which now they watch, arise from their sackcloth and ashes to foiget amnesty and to execute judgment. Speaking without passion, "without malice, without enmity against the guiltiest traitor of all the great con- spiracy, without eagerness to spill a drop of any man's blood — nevertheless, for the sake of Law, of Liberty, of the Republic, -we declare that if treason be a crime, and if crime deserve punishment, then Jeffer- son Davis and hia Cabinet and Congress should be tried vrith a just trial, and abide a just doom.
Meanwhile, if, by a mysterious fatality to » soldier who was never defeated till he has now defeated himself, who seems to Lave taken ofi" the laurels from his head only to trample them under his feet — if through this suddenly opened gate of folly the greatest culprits of mankind shall es- «ape their just &le, then let us add to this day's public sorrow a new lamentation that Law has lost its majesty, Liberty its safety, and the Republic its self-respect.
But we thank God that the new Predident — who has eimobled himself in a single week Into the complete confidence of the people — stands already illustriously pledged to deal an umelenting punishment to crimes against the Republic. If we comprehend the ethics of the New Testament, we be- lieve that to the severest utterances which he has made since his Presidential oath, the voice of CluTstian charity answers, Amen.
Therefore, O sorrowful countrymen 1 l)e«ring now a martyr's coffin to the tomb, lay your hands reverently upon its pall, and vow before heaven to fulfill the three- fold duty of this solemn hour : first, to Slav- ery, annihilation ; second, to th» Rebellion, unconditional surrender ; third, to Treason, the extreme penalty of the law. And may Ood save the Republic I
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THE TEESIDENT's IWEBAL CAE, ON A STEAM LIGHTEE, APPEOACHING KEW XOKK FEOM JEESEZ CTTY, APEIL 24, 1865.
\ Scene from the Luuoln funeral procession iu Xew York Citj. (i-Yom a pliotograph by \ ^ ' Brady,fji»ubllftfied In' Harpers' W^kly of May 13, 1866, by courtesy of Harper & BroUiors.)
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•Willi.- with l.f Fiii-llion. 1 uii'li-r-wi'iit a iihiiuiiablf and wi'ird oxporloni-e — tliat. Ill' till' ilral't riots," uiitts Ausustus Saint-i lamli'iis li, his reinlnisi'Ctu-ea in Till' ('iiilui.\. ■|.('U\iiii; in.\' w oik 1"- ciiuso 1.0 l{i>>lhon. In some cxritiMnMU. Iiad tiilrl Mil' tn »(> liiiinc oik' ariirnuuii al an isirlv licnii. I iiuliceil llio slCHiiso a iipiardtu 1' i.C lie- absdUiti'h ili .siitcil slrei-ls^iio immlbusps on Bioad w a.\', \v hiih ua-s always crowilcil al lliat hoiii - aihl ml a mi\i1, wagon, rar or an\- thln,:; Ihal S'M mi'il ali\o i>n 'I'hird Ave- nue as 1 tuincil iiuo li. A monnMU latir a man oi- so with a sun running in tlu' distanii- gave tlio onl\- signs tliat the city was imi « dead on.-. Tlion I rciol- Irel \ividly ni\' pounding upstairs, and tlio wild taking me into hi-r arms Ijy my iiiolh'i, who lad bi?pn in a paroxysm of foar n.' lo what had hoconio of me, the others of tin- brood alreud.\- restiiig safe at home. i.ater on, a.s thf> storm lessened, it wa.s strange to see two lan- non p.isl'Ni in 'rwentv-flrst Street at the northeast eoi-nor of Oramerey Park, pointing due i-a.«:t in the direetion of the rioter.s.
"Then '-amc the news of I.,ineoln's as- sassination. 1 recall father and mother weeping as lie read of it to us in the morning at breakfast before starting for work. Later ( saw Lincoln l.\ ing in state in ill" ('it,\ Hall, after joining th. in- tenninahle line that formed somewheie down rhatham Street and led up by his bier at the luad of l he staircase. I went biiek to ihc end of the line to look a' loin agai;i. This complrloil niv \ isii.n of tile liig man. Hut tlie funeral, w hi' li | viewed fion; the roof of th old \Va1- lack's Tliratre on Firooiiie .-^treet, re\i\i d the profound soleninit\' o( m.v iiii|'rr.';sion with seeing eseryonc unio\or as the funeral ear went by. Finally the bo.-ish 'watching ou*' among the crowds to trs anri delect anybod.v who lookerl like tin' assassin. John VN'ilkes Booth. ^\ ho soenieil the perfe. tion of manl.v heautx in b'S pieturis. must elo'^c ni\ imrircs- sions of that extraordinars' period."
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he worked^ When he learned this, the Scotchman spt off for the address and told the employer one of his men had drowned and ar)Plied for the job. The
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'Repeat Visit of Fifty-eight Yeais Ago When President's
Body Reposed There in State — Tell
Some of His Stories
Three old men who knew Abraham Lincoln caiuo to City Kail This morn- ing before the .sun had climbed above I the skyscrapers oi: lower i)anhattan and i)ald the wliimsical, tearful liom- a.Lje of old nee to the place where their President's body had lain in state. Sitting- on the .steps, they pictured liis love of funny stories, argued over whether he was or was not a "tee- totaler" and justified their inclusion of a musical comedy in their day's cele- bration with ihe statement, to which all tliree a^r-'ed with ^'igorous nud- din£': "I^uicolil would have liked musi- cal comedies; he could have played in them or v.-ritten them."
The memories of the hushed throngs streaming thiough the i-ottinda and of the German choral societies chanting their hymns outside City Hall at mid- night ol-' April 2;i. 3S65. had re- mahied vi\ id. They spoke of them as if they were yesterdaj-. Two of them liad just been married after getting out of the Union Army anj they admitted that they had brought their brides with them when they visited City Hall fifty-eight > ears ago. Though for years they have been jjromising themselves a pilgrmiago to the place, it w^as not until to-day, when their families and daughters and friends had gone away for i he holiday, that they could make tip their minds to return.
As they mounted the winding stair- way, their steps grew slow. When they reached the top, only a few feet from where the catafuUiue had rested, three hats came off together. As if the dead body were there before them, they grouped themselves in a semi- circle, staring at the floor, the hands that held their hats shajilng'. Finally, one brolco the silence:
"It's so long ago I've forgotten to cry. You see, we all knew him."
The rotunda was dimly lighted, shadows were everywhere and the place was cold. "I'heir words le- echoed through the corridors. They would have gone, shivering, but the prospect of telling their story held them. Tlipy would not give their
employer answered that the man who pushed his employee into the river had just taken the place."
"That was iu:-.t like I.incoln, that sLory was," they all agreed when they had stopped laughing.
"We've been coming down here for years," continued Jernv'. "but some- ihing'always camp uii. My son-in-law left town to-day and I'm all by my- self." , „
"My daughter has gone away, too,
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•Jerry" got tired and sat dan-n „r, "I'm all alone." confessed Tom. bo
the top step, telling hssto^ through "'^''-^ ^" «°""^ '° '"""" ^""""X" ^° puffs at a big cigar. trough I ^ ^ show-to a musical comedy.
"The night we came to see Lincoln's "1'" ^^^ Lincoln would have iked coffin," he began, "this place was be'm- n.uslcal plays," declared Peter. He tiful. The mourning drapes were \ had a great sense of humor, black and purple, and you could hardly I
see the coffin for the flowers It was heaped high with them. I
"I was just twenty-two then"— this more slowly as if he loved to lin-er i over it— "and I'd just returned from I service in the South. I was at Antie- I jtam and I, that Is, Ave— the girl I had I ,.married— came to the City Hall on the I night of tlie twtnty-third. The crowd I was fierce and wo stood in line for more I than an hour. The people went in the ■ front Of the building, and after pass- ing up the stairs and looking at the (llower-covered coffin went down the other side of the stairs and out the back door."
"I brought my wi^e^ down to the
I'il-- Mall." iaiernii)lfd Ivte. "We had ciily been mni-ried a niLuith. 1 fought all throu.th the war from Bull Hun lo Gettysburg and wasn't wounded once." This was loo niucli fcir Tom, su iie broke in:
"I didn't come in the crowd," he ex- plained. "My brother was in the mili- tary guard and he had me passed in to hear the funeral tliants. My brotlier was at Foi'd's Theatre when Lincoln Was shot. He got me ni here the night the Cerman societies .sang funci-al . c-hants. it was midnight and sort of' spooky, as I remember it." j
Kach old man wa.-^ eagei- to pour out | his story. I'he reticence and desire to | leavo ^•anisheu with every new para- | graph. I
"Wo were only ; issters," ,Ierry | took up the tale, '-iit wo all knew! Lincoln. I
"Vcs, he wa.s a gj'cat friend of my i fatlicr," nodded Pete. "I remember | hearing them argue Over teetotaling. I..iiicoln. favored it and my father I didn't. I
"Sit down here, j'oung fellow," said i Jerry. "We old boys can tell you I something about Lincoln. Tom, tell | them that one he told you." i
Torn, who had been waiting for this] moment, cleared his throat with a sonorous cough and strucjc out as if he were addressing an audience in Madison SQuare tiarden: ,
"My father knew lancoln and li was with hini one day when he met the President in Washington. Lincoln [ was in line humor and told father a i funny story about a Scotchman. I've "Call me Tom," saicl the tallest, who j heard the samp story told as new for
. I sixty years. Tliis Scotcliman saw a man drowning in a river, but in.stcad of rescuing: him, he aslced him where others, respectively eighty and elghty- fom-.
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admitted to eighty-one years. "Jerry and "Pete" were the names of the
He could have played in musical ■ hows or written them," asserted lorn. ^ -Don't talk that way about hun, .Terry cried in protest. "It isn't funny. He fulfilled his mission."
Their information about Lincoln \\a3 apparently exhausted. Again he place seemed gloomy and affected then
"'••Weil young fellow," said Jerry ••vou've shown us a lot more respect and attention than most of them do nowadays. Can we offer you a drink
"^^■V;^>^^^-■^^ the first offer w.s decltned with thanks. But Jer.-y pro- duced a flask-right In the City Hall
'^°'c!o°ahead," he urged. "Have one on
""■'l^'ete took the flask and turned it ups.de down. It was empty.
"Well laughed late already."
It was 9:30 A. M
what do you expect?" he "It's a holiday and It s pret.y
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"Ami Mc)S(> \\ cut lip Ironi llio i)laiiis of Moab, rnito the moiiiituin of Ni'lio, to the; top of I'i.-^'uli, that is over ai^ainsl Joriclio; and tlio l.orti showtd him all tlu; land of Uiliatl, unto J>un, and all NupUiali. and tin- land of i;phiaiiii, and iMana^f-cli, and all Iho land of .ludah, unto the utmo.'-t sea, and the south, and the plain of the valki of .lericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoor. And the Lord said unto him, this l.s the land which I swear unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying. 1 will give it unto tliy seid: I liavo caused thee to sec it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither. .So Moses, the servant of ihe Lord, died there in the land of Moab, according^ to tlie v.oid of the Lord." — Dcut. 34: 1-0.
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a),'ainst the backgroiiml of early i 1^ V (lavs, (list ncL and individual as if Cr (^"^ he had lived but yesterday. There
is scarcely another evtuit in his- tory more touching' than his death, ile had borne the j^reut burdens of state fur forty years, shaped the .lews to a nation, tilled out their civil and relif,M(ius polity, administered tlieir laws, Kuidcd tiu-ir sli-i'-^, <>i' ducll witii tlipnt in all tlieir .jourjieying-s in the -wilder- ness; had mourned in their punishment, iicpt step witli their march and led tfiem in uars, until the eiul of tlieir laliors driw nitrlL The Just staK'e was reached. Jordan only lay he tween them and tiie iironiised land. The liromised land!— oil, wluit yearniu{,'s had lieaved ids breast for tliat divinely prom- ised place! lii^ had theamed of it by niglit and mused liy liay. It was holy and endeared a^ (j'oti's lavoreil spot. It was to be the cradle of'an illustrious historir All his long, lal'oriou'j and no\v weary lile, he had aimed at this as the consummation of every desire, tiie reward of every toil and pain. Then ♦•amc the word of the Ix>rd to him, "Thou inayest not go over: Get thee up into the mountain, look upon it, and die."
rrom that silent summit, the hoary leader gazed to the north, to the south, to the west A\itli hungry eyes. The dim outlines rose up. Tl'P hazy recesses spoke of quiet val- leys between the hills. ^Vith eager longing, Avilh sad resigiuitiou, he looked u])on the jiromised land. It was now to him a forbid- den land. It was a moment's anguish. He forgot all his personal wants and drank in the vision of his people's home. His work v,aa done. There lay God'.s promise fullilled. There was the seat of coming Jeixiyalem; there the city of Judah's King; the sphere of judges and prophets; tiie mount of sor- row and salvation; the nest whence were to fly blessings innumerable to all mankind.
Joy chased sadness from e\ery leal lire, and tife jirophet laid him down and died.
LIKE A LOAN ISLAND
Again a great leader of the iieople has passetl through toil, sorrow, battle and ^var, and come near to the promised land of jjeacc, into which he might not pass over. Who ^:hall recount our martyr's sufferings for this people? Since the Koveinber of 18i;u, his liorizon has been black with storm.-^. By day and by night, he trod a way of danger and darlvjiess. On his shoulders rested a govern- inent dearer to iiiin than his own life. At its integrity millions of men were striking at home. I'pon this government foreign eyes lo\\:ered. U stood like a lone island in a sea full of storms: and every tide and wave seemed eager to devour it. I'pon thousunds of hearts great soiiows and anxieties have rested, but not on one such, and in such measure, as upon that simple, truthful, noble soiil, our faithful and sainted Lincoln, \ever rising to tins enthusiasm of more imi)a.s- .sioned natiwes in hours of hope, and never sinking with the mercurial in hours of de- feat to the deiitlis of desijondency, he held on with immovable patience and "fortitude, luitting caution against iiope, that it might | not be premature, and hope against caution i that it might not yield to dreul and danger' I He Avrcstled ceaselessly, through four black and dreadful pergatorial y(>ais, wherein God j Avas cleansing the sin of his peofile as by I lire. 1
At last, the watcher belield the gray dawn for the country. The niountains began to give forth their toim.s fium out the dark- ue.ss; and the East came rushing toward us witii amis full of joy tor all our sorrows Ihe^i It was for him to be glud exceedingly, that liad sorrowed immeasurably Peace could bring to no other heart such joy such i rest, sucii honor, .such trust, .such gratitude. I JJut lie looked upon it r.s Mo.<es looked upon ithe promi.-ed land. Then the wail of a na- ' tion procla.med that he had gone f roni ■ among u^. Not thine the sorrow, but ours sainted .soul. Thou hast indeed entered the" promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remains the rocking of the cieei), the storm upon tiie land, davs of duty
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and nights of watching; but thou art s^phered lii»,'h above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorroAv^ and weariness. Uest, O weary heart! Rejoice exceedingly, thou tiiat bust enough suffered! Thou hast beheld Hit.i who invis- ibly led Ihce in this great wilderness. Thou standcst among the elect. Around thee are tho i'oyaJ jiien that have ennobled human life in every age. Kingly art thou, with glory on thy brow as a diadeui. And joy is upon thee lor bvei'more. Over all this land, over all the little cloud of years that now from thine infinite horizon moves back as a speck, tiiou art lifted up as high as the star is above the clouds that hide us, but never reach it. In the goodly company of Mount Zion thou shalt find tliat rest which thou liast sorrowing sought in vain; and thy name, an everlasting name in heaven, shall nourish in fragrance and beauty as long as men shall last upon the earth, or hearts re- main, to revere truth, fidelity and goodness.
SUDDEN JOY, SUDDEN SORROW
Never did two such orbs of e.xperionee n.eet in one hemisphere, as the joy and the sorrow of the same week in this land. The joy was as sudden as if uo man had expect- ed it, and as entrancing as if ii had fallen a sphere from heaven. It rose up over so- briety and swept business from its moorings and ran down through the land in irresis- ! t.iblo course. Men embraced each other in brotherhood that were strangers in the flesli. They sang, or prayed, or, deeper yet, many could only think thanksgiving and weep gladnes.s. That peace was sure; that gov- ernment was firmer than ever; that the land was cleansed of plague; that the ages were opening to our footsteps, and we were to begin a march of bk'ssings; that blood was staunched, and scowling enmities Avere sink- ing like storms beneath the horizon; that the dear fatherland, nothing lost, much gained, was to rise up in unexampled honor among the nations of the earth— these tlioughts, and that undistinguishable throng of fancies, and hopes, and desires, and yearn- ings, that filled the soul Avith tremblings like the heated air of mid-summer days- all tliese kindled up such a surge of joy as no words may describe.
In one hour joy lay without a [lulse, with- out a gleam, or breath. A .'^^orrow came tliat swept through the land a.s huge storms sweep liuough the forest and ileid, rolling thunder along the sky, disheveling tb.e flow- ers, dauiUing every singer in thicket or for- est and pouring blackness and darkness across the land and up the mountains. Did ever so many hearts, in so brief a time, toucli two .such ijouiullcs:; feeling-.? It v.as tlie u:- tennost of joy; it was the uttermost of sor- row—no!»n and niidniglit, \vithout a spucc between.
THE STUNNING BLOW
The blow brought not a sharp pang. It was so terrible tint at first it stunned sen sibility. Citi^-x-ns were like ineu awakcne i i at midnight by an eartlKiuake anil bewil- dered to find everything .Ihat they weie accustomed to trust wavering and falling. | The very earth was no longer solid. 'J'he ; first feeling v.as the least. Men waited to get straight to feel. They v>andcred in tiie streets as if groping after some impending dread, or undeveloped sorrow, or .■-ome o::e to tell them what ailed them. They met each other as if each would ask the other, "Am I awake, or do I dream?" There was a piteous helplessness. Strong men bowed down and wept. Other and common giieis belonged to some one in chief; this belonged to all. It was each and every man's. Every virtuous household in the land lelt as if its lirst-born were gone. Men were bereaved, and walke<l for days as it a corpse lay un-, buried in their chvellings. There \vas nolh-; ing else to tliink of. Tiiey couhl speak of nothing but that; andyet, of that they could speak only falleringly. All business Avas laid aside. Pleasure forgot to smile. The city for nearly a week ceased to roar. The great Leviatharu lay down, and was still. Even avarice stood still, and grt el Avas strangely
, moved to generous sympathy and universal sorrow. Rear to liis name monuments, found charitable institutions, and Avrite his name aboA'e their lintels; but no monument Avil! CA'er equal the tuiiversal, spontaneous and sublime sorrow that in a moment swept doAvn lines and parties and covered up ani- mosities, and in an hour brought a divided people into unity of grief and indivisible felloAVship of anguish.
* * * Even he Avho now sleeps has, by this event, been clothed Avith new influence. Dead, he speaks to men Avho noAV Avillingry hear Avhat before they refused to listen to. NoAV his simple and Aveighty w>rds Avill be gathered like those of Wa.shington, and your children, and your children's children, shall be taught to ponder the shnplicity and deep wisdom of utterances which, in their time,
passed, in party heat, as idle Avords. Men will receive a new impulse of patriotism for his s^ke and Avill guard with zeal the Avholo country which lie loved so well. 1 swear you, on the altar of his memory, to be more faith- ful to the country for Avliich he has perished. They Mill, as they follow his hearse, sAvear a noAV hatred to that slavery against which he A\arred, and Avhich, in vanijuishing him, lias made him a martyr, to hate slavory v.ith an unappeasa.ble halreil. They will ad- mire and imitate the iiimno.;s of this man, his inflexible conscience for the rigiit; ;-nd yet his gentleness, as tender as a woiuan's, his moderation of spirit, which, not all the
-+».i iiKulci.'ition ol spirit, \Mi.tii nol all tho tiiul (lislurhanc-iis of iii.s ((uiiitiy ^liaUc; out of its i)laco. 1 sWL'ur you to au oiuuhuiou of his justifo, his iiiodorution anil his UR-rcy.
GRIEF BEYOND MINISTRY
You I can coiuloi't: imt iiow can I si)oak to that twili^'ht million to whom his namo wa.i as thi> name ol an an^fl ot (iod? 'I'horo \^ill h(! wailing in jilacrs which no minister shall he able to reach. VVlu'ii. in hovi-l ami in .cot, in wood and in wildein<'ss, in the licld throuKhout the South, the dusky chil- dren, who looked upon him as that Moses whom (iod sent hetorc; lluuu to lead them out ol the land of bonda^'e, learn that lu; has Jallen, who shall comtort them? <), thou Siiepherd of Israel, that didst comfort thy people of old, to thy care we conunit tho helpless, the long-w ron{,H'd and grieved.
And now the nuirtyr is moving in trium- , lihul march, mightier than when aliv(\ Tho I nation rises up at every >tage of his coming. Cities and states are his pallbearers, and the cannon beats the hours with solenui i)ro- gression. Dead, dead, dead, he yet speak- etli! Is Washington di'ad? I> Hampden dvsul? Is David dead? Is any man that ever was Jit to live dead? Disenthralled of (le^h, and ri.-en in the unobstruiLed sphere where pa.ssiua never comes, he begins his illimit- able work. His lif(! now is grafted ui)on the inlinite, and will be fruitful as no earth- ly life can be. Pa.ss on, thou that ha^st over- come! \(.ur sorrows, oh jieople, arc hi.s peace! "V'our hells, antl bands, and nuilTlod drums, .sound triumi)h in his ear. Wail and weep here; God made it echo joy and triumph there. Pass on!
Four years ago, oh, Illinois, we took from your uudst an untried man, and from among the i)eop!e. We return him to you a miglity con(iuerer. Not thine any more, but the na- tion's; not ours, but tiie worlil's. (iive him l)l:ice, oh, ye prairies! In the nu'dst of this great continent his dust shall rest, a sacred treasure to myriads who shall pilgrim to that shrine to kindle anew thi'ir zeal and patriotism. Ye winds that move over the miglity ))laces of tlie West, chant his re- quiem! Y'e people, beliold a martyr whoso blood, as so many articulate words, plead.-* tor fidelity, for law, for liberty!
A WILSON DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
Former Prcyideiit Wilson toh-grai/iu'cl to ihn .TacUson day ilinm-r of I'lttt;!. uracil Deiiiocrut.s tliut the party wars intrust;d v.ilh thi' "redcinii- tion of the nation from clegrt'dation."
Jlere is a Ijcautiful plank for the D.-inocratic national platform: "\\'c view wiih alarm the degradation of the American i)eoplo and tlieic ■ owardly portrayal of tho cau.se of liumanity. We regard the Amoiican people a.s the seuni of the earth, hyenas in soul and jackals in mind."'
With that plank the Dumociatie paity can sweep Kurope as a prairie fire and the candi- date can be elected president of tlie leafjue of natioii.s. After it lias been adopted by the, resolutions committee of tlu- eoiatnlion we'll probably lind iMr, JMeAdoo and .Mr. L'uderwood and various others oarnesily siii^porting' Mi-. Cox for nondnation. ]Ie did it the other time, and why not now? He's used to it, case- hardened and indurated, a perfect ca.ndidalu on a perfict platform r.illvti;^ an enlhusiaslio country to the liery doctrine: "'i'es. we are a i degraded people." — Chiea.s'O Tiibune.
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THE adjoining picture shows the City Hall duiing the funeral of Abraham Lincoln on Wednes- day,. April 26, 1865. Above the en- trance to the crapr-flnned building ^vpre tin woids "The Nation ^Mourns." The h°arse is seen at the right.
A pr»at piocc'Sion. including r"p- resentati^-es of almozt every organi-
zation in the city anJ dctnchments i ralliriovo. Harri.sburp, Philadelphia, from various tcgimrnls, followed the ' Nev/ Yoik, A.lhnnv, Buf'.nlo, Clevp- hoarse from City Hp.U v:i 7r'.;ondv.'.ny l.-nd and Chicag'", so it was no: un- and Fifth avenue to Thirty-fourth i til May. more than two v^^■>rk^^ nfrrr street and thence to the Hudson lihe as.nap.=;in-ii i'>n rf *hp ^resident.
thnt the body arrived in Rpring- ri"ld. 111. The burial wa- at Oa': Ri'lgo, 111., n^r. r F'-'-ii)'\r:'i^ld, on ■M::!y 4.
River st!\linr, wheie the body v/as taken by train to Alh.iny. Those in charpe of the I.inc-'n
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body lay In 'ate in WaEhin:;-'.on, [ Trrii'.'irov.— Arion Cocictj- I air.cl^
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ON APRIL 19, 1866, at the City ^ HaU In New York City there was a ^ funeral ceremony for President Ab- ^' raham Lincoln who was aiiaisinatad
in Ford's Theater, Washington, on^ J Good Friday, April 14. > ^
^ Last year, Dr. Leo HershkowiU, a j ,' history professor at Queens College, s' 'Flushing, New York, came across some financial documents relating to ^ the martyred President's funeral ". service and the procession which later went up Broadway. ' Actually, the records were headed , '. for the papershredders at an East | Bronx pulp mill. They were among ; bales and bundles of other docu- , ' ments destined for destruction. Dr. / Hershkowitr got there just In time. ^ i- '■ Among other items he salvaged ^ was a bill to the City by the under- j^ taker, Peter Relyea, of Manhattan. He charged $1,000 for horses, horse'' covers trimmed with silver-bullion ; fringes, grooms, hats, crape and so J forth. The City also paid Mr. Relyea , another $600 for building thd cano- ^ pied catafalque that bore the coffin ■: in the procession. ^ ,.
The architect, Charles Mettam, < ' who designed the catafalque, sub- ^ mitted an invoice for $260. There; • were 30 musical groups in the pro- cession, and they submitted bills for^ their services. The 84th Regiment ■ engaged Schineller's Brass Band, ; consisting of 22 members and for : which there was a charge of $184. '■[ The sum of $136 was paid to ^ Dosworth's Concert, Military and , Quadrille in which there were 16 ^ ^ musicians. i
Among other items purchased tar *r '• the . funeral were hits, plumes, '
f martial flags and armbands. A sign- painting company charged $110 for * jl 32 yards of muslin and a carved eagle. The man who played the \ chimes for three hours at Trinity \ Chur^, Wall Street and Broadway, r charged $20 for his services. He also * f composed a- funeral dirge. f" If the calculations of Dr. Hershko- -^ \ witx are correct, the whole affair cost ^ the City of New York aroond ; JM0,000. Some of the bills be fbundc^ ; were on onmte leit^heads, while othen were simply on Unad tablet paper. During Aprfl they wert vol
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ANSWER MAN
Broadcast over Station WOR
Mutual Broadcasting System
145 West 41st street
New York. N. Y.
WISCONSIN 7-1183
jkogaat 10, 1943
Mr, Louis A. Warren, Director Lincoln National Life fonndation Port Wayne, Indiana
Uy dear Ur, Warren:
One of my listeners asks:
"After Lincoln's death was his body broiaght to New York City and did the funeral procession pass throu^ East Seventh Street?"
I hare information of the fact that Lincoln^s hody lay in state in City Hall, after the arrival of the funeral train on April 24, 1865, hut do you have any information as to whether the procession passed through Sast Seventh Street?
I shall appreciate a reply at your early convenience.
Sincerely yours
Au«u»t 15, 19H3
Mr, Bz*ttO« ChapgHn 1U5 W. kUt St. H«¥ York 18, N. Y.
K7 Aear Mr. ChAjaui}
From a prlntad aocount of the noreMnt of tha funaral prooaealon^of Abrahai, Llnooln In Nav York City I mka thaae axoarpte. FJroa tha Farry Gata up to Hadaon Straat, than wp ^daon to Canal, thanoa through It and Broadvay to tha Park antarlng ^ !5!J "J!"" '^**- . ^•^^ ^^ ^"y Hall vhare tha hody llae ♦LI V ,.i?! r*^*"^<» ?••■•* «P Broadnay to Uth Straat/thanoa through Fifth Aranua to 5Hth and aoroaa that vlda atraat to Ninth ATanua, thanoa It paaaad Into tha Hudaon Blrar Railroad Dapot "
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Only Known Picture Of Lincoln In Coffin Found
SPRINGFIELD, HI. WIThe only known picture of Abraham Lincoln in his coffin has turned up in the Illinois State Historical Library. ' The photograph was found by 15-year-old Ronald Rietveld of Des Moines while looking through the
library's voluminous Lincoln col- lection.
The youth brought his discovery, to the attention of Dr. Harry E. Pratt, state historian and Lincoln author, who pronounced it genuine after research. Dr. Pratt said the piteture had been lost for 87 years among the papers of Edwin M. Stanton, secretai-y of war- under Lincoln.
New York City Hall
The brownish proof print was taken in New York City Hall on April 25, 1865, While the Lincoln funeral train was enroute from Washington to Springfield.
A New York photographer, Jere- miah Gurney Jr., took the picture from a balcony. In the resulting time exposure picture, Lincoln's beard and features are barely dis- tinguishable.
Two men standing at the head and foot of the coffin were identi- fied as Admiral Charles H. Davis and Assistant Adjutant General Edyard D. Townsend, who was in charge of the funeral train and gave Gurney permission to take the picture.
Forgot About Print
Dr. Pratt said when Stanton learned about the photograph, he ordered destruction of the photo- graphic plate and any prints made from it. In the meantime, the proof print had been sent to him and; he evidently dropped it into his files and forgot about It.
The picture remained in the Stanton papers until 1887 when his sop sent it to John G. Nicolay, one of Lincoln's two secretaries who had just begun publication of their ten volume life of the eman- cipator.
The photograph was filed with the authors' papers which were given to the Illinois State Histori- cal Library in 1940 by Mrs. Alice Hay Wadsworth, daughter of John Jfay,, ti^e other author-secretary.
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UNCOVER NEW PHOTOGRAPH OF ABE'S FUNERAL
R. Rietweld Of Des Moines Finds Picture While Going Through Library.
SPRINGFIELD, 111. («— The only known picture of Ab^tiam Lincoln in his coffin has tuij Illinois State Historil The photograph vj 15-year-o|^ Rcmald
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The brownish proof print was taken in New York City Hall on April 25, 1865, while the Lincoln funeral train was enroute from Washington to Springfield. IDENTIFY TWO
A New York photographer, Jeie- miah Gurney Jr., took the picture from a balcony. In the resulting time exposure picture, Lincoln's beard and features are barely dis- tinguishable.
Two men standing at the head and foot of the coffin were identi- fied as Admiral Charles H. Davis and Assistant Adjutant General Ed- ward D. Towsend, who was in charge of the funeral train and gave Gurney permission to take the picture. ORDERED DESTRUCTION
Dr. Pratt said when Stanton learned about the photograph, he ordered destruction of the photo- graphic plate and any prints made from it. In the meantime, the proof print had been sent to him and he evidently dropped in into his files and forgot about it.
The picture remained in the Stanton papers until 1887 when his son sent it to John G. Nicolay, one of Lincoln's two secretaries who had just begun publication of their ten volume life of the eman- cipator.
The photograph was filed with the authors' papers which were given to the Illinois State Histori- cal Library in 1940 by Mrs. Alice Hay Wadsworth, daughter of John Hay, tJie other author-secretary.
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author, said \d of Des Moines -year-old picture J^iagiFg through material state historical library here. itt said after thorough re- seafth into letters and newspapers of the period that the photograph, a four-by-six-inch proof print, is definitely authentic.
The state historian said Jere- miah Gurney jr., of New York took the picture from a balcony 20 feet above Lincoln's body when the Lincoln funeral train stopped in New York en route to Springfield.
The features and beard of the martyred Civil war president can hardly be distinguished in the pic- ture, Pratt said.
Secretary of War Edwin M. Stan- ton heard about the photo and or- dered all prints as well as the plate destroyed. But he apparently for- got to destroy a proof that had been sent to him.
This proof remained in Stanton's files. Eventually it was obtained by Mrs. Alice Hay Wadsworth, ivho gave it to the state historical library with other Lincoln papers In 1940. It remained among this material undiscovered until young Rietveld turned it up recently.
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ORIGINAL CURRIER AND IVES SHOWS LINCOLN FUNERAL Print Found In Files At Dayton Daily News To Be Framed.
FOVISD IN DAILY NEWS FILES
Original Currier, Ives Print Depicts Funeral Of Lincoln
By FK.\N FKANTZ
Daily News Staff Writer
An original Currier and Ives print showing Lincoln's funeral procession turned up in the files at The Dayton Daily News in a search for material to use in con- nection with Lincoln's birtiiday to- day. '■
The print, which had originally been wrapped in brown paper and rolled, somehow had become flat- tened in a tangle of Lhicoln press clippings and forgotten. No one on the News staff knows where it came from or how long it has been in the files.
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complex funerals on record. Lin- coln, who died April 15, 1865, was not buried until May 4.
Congress wanted to bury him in Wusliin^ton but Mrs. Lincoln objected. Ttie Illinois delegation demanded the return of the body to the capital of tliat state; but jMrs. Lincoln preferred Chicago. She finally consented to Spring- field alter the townspeople Ihcre agreed not to iiiirchase the land they had intended, and let her selection of the new Oak Uidge cemetery prevail. The state cap- itol now stands on the land they had planned to buy. The scene on the Currier and Ives shows the procession passing Union Square in_ Sj-Jiiiigfiuld, 111.,
where a program lasting nearly five liours was held. Previously, the body had lain in state at city hall, and 100 persons a minute had been admitted. Women partic- ularly wanted to touch the body or casket, but were held back by Ihe guard of lionor, working on two- hour shifts.
According to copies of the New York Herald, published that day and Ihe following, "one hundred thousand strangers came to New York jcsterday for the e.vpress purpose of participating in a pageant surpassing in magnif- icence and extent anything of its kind ever called forth in America." The paper, which contained five solid pages of news on the funeral, want ads, and news from Wash- ington and the new president on the back page, also mentioned that 10 pickpockets had been arrested in the crowds.
The body became travel stained, and an cmbalmer and his assistant from Washington frequently dusted and readjusted. They stayed Milh Ihe procession during the whole circuitous route, ^vhicll roughly duplicated Lin- coln's route from Springfield to Washington for his first inaugura- tion.
But rest for Lincoln was troubled for the next ?S years. The casket was opened several times and the body viewed by friends. There was even a plot 1o steal the body.! It wasn't until 1901 that the body| was placed in a tomb protected byi steel and cement, suggested andi paid for by Robert Lincoln. Once! more the casket was opened and 30 witnesses said the body was^ that of Lincoln.
The copies of the New York Herald were lent by Lloyd Osten- dorf. 225 Lookout dr., who collects Lincoln memorabilia. He added that the print is worth approx- imately $30, although he adds that as long .ago as 1928, before Lin- coln Currier and Ives were col- lected so much as today, a partic- ularly good copy was sold for 575. The print is out of the files for keeps now. It will bo framed and. hung in the reference library.
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Picture of Lincoln Taken After Death Shown in N, Y,
New York, Feb. 10 [Special] —A copy of the only known photograph of Abraham Lin- cohi, taken after his assassina- tion, was put on display here today and presented to Rock- ford [III.] college in a cere- mony at the Waldorf Astoria hotel.
The original photograph, made 10 days after the Pres- ident was sliot to death in 1965 by Actor John Wilkes Booth at "■oixi's theater in Washington, shows Lincoln lying in state in an open coffin in New York's city hall.
The only known print made from the original photograph is in the files of the Illinois Historical society in Spring- field, m.
Original in Springfield
In Springfield, Miss Margaret Flint, assistant Illinois state historian, said the print, which was presented to the society in 1940, was in collections owned by the families of John Nicolay -nd John Hay, Lincoln's secre- taries. The collections wer- presented to the society by Mrs. Alice Hay Wadsworth, daughter of Hay.
Miss Flint said record^ show that two photgTi-phs of Lincoln in his coffin were made by Guj-ney & Sons, New York photographers. But upon the order of Secretary of War Edwin A. Stanton, who feared the photographs would disturb Mrs. Lincoln, both photographic plates and the single print made from the larger one were destroyed,- and Stanton retained the only print made from the other plate.
Miss Flint said the print at Springfield is accompanied by a letter written by Stanton's son, Louis, in 18C7 when he gave the print to Nicolay after finding it in his lat^ father's papers.
A copy of only known photograph of President Lincoln on display in New York and presented to Rockford college (111.) yesterday. Original picture was taken by Gurney & Son, New York photographer, April 24, 1865, when Lincoln was lying in state in New York City, [ap wirepnotoi
Hay were then a biography of
Nicolay and working on Lincoln.
Many Copies Made
Miss Flint said many copies have been made of the photo- graph in the Illinois Historical society archives and are avail- able at any time.
The photograph displayed here was said to have been brought to the attention of Mrs. Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt, daughter of Frederick Hill Meserve, a Lincoln authority, in the 19503.
When J'^rs. Kunhardt 's daughter married George Lodge, son of Henry Cabot Lodge, American ambassador to South Viet Nam, she gave the photo to the family ^ be- cause, by coincidence, in the pictwe was Charles Henry Davis, the great-great-grand- father of George Lodge.
The photo was presented to Rockford college by John Davis Lodge, the ambassador's brother, a former governor of Connecticut and former ambas- sador to Spain, and a Rockford college trustee.
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Zorach, and its place- ment in a collection accessible to the public should be jfood news for students of" art as well as Lincoln enthusiasts. It is an exceedingly im- portant addition to the IJncoln Library and Museum, providing in- teresting points of com- parison and contrast with the heroic bronze statue commissioned by Lincoln National Life in the same period, Paul Manship's The Hoosier Youth. Zorach is often paired with Gaston Lachaise as representing the best in American sculpture be- tween the World Wars, and the Lincoln Library and Museum is much enhanced by the addition of his work.
The gift from the agency heads included as well two extremely rare broadsides. The first is an order con- cerning the procession in New York City for Lincoln's funeral. It is remarkable in that it associates Lincoln's name with desegrega- tion at a very early date.
The Joint Municipal Committee in Charge of Obsequies was com- posed of appointees of the Board of Aldermen and the Board of Councilmen. When Negro representatives requested a place in the parade, arguing that there was to be a place even for the Presi- dent's horse behind the hearse, the Committee turned them down. Republicans charged that the Committee was Tam- many controlled, and the New York Times put it very succinctly: ". . . prejudice against color was supreme with a majority of the committee." The President of the Board of Police Commissioners, Thomas Acton, fought the decision. Accounts differ in regard to whether Acton succeeded before the appearance of the War Department order banning "dis- crimination respecting color," or because of it. It seems likely that the latter was the case, since newspaper reports of the de- cision to allow Negroes in the procession coincided with the appearance of the War Department order in the press. Though widely reprinted in the newspapers, the order in its broadside form is not mentioned in any of the standard accounts nor re- produced in books on Lincoln's funeral. This may well be its first publication.
Though as many as 5,000 Negroes had been reported ready to march, only two hundred actually did so. Doubtless, many felt intimidated by the obvious hostility of the local parade authorities. Memories of lynchings and murders of blacks during the draft riots just two years earlier were fresh enough to make ominous the reported remark of one Committeeman that the responsibility for allowing Negroes in the procession would rest with the police. In the end, however, it was widely
(The Colovfrt people in the 3Procc.wio» (To-duy.
Wasiii.ncto.v, April I't, 1805. ^lajor-Genoral Joiix A. Di.v — It is tlio desire of the Secre- tary of War that no discrimination respecting color should be exercised in admitting persons to the funeral procession to-morrow. In this city ;i Mack regiment formed part of the escort.
C. A, DANA, Assistant Secretary of War.
Colored people, or their societies, who wish to join tlie procession to-day, can do so by forming on West Reade street by twelve o'clock, their right resting on Broadway. Societies should appoint their own Marshals to j^reserve
order.
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reported that the Negro group was "the only porticm of the proces- sion which was re- ceived with any demon- strations of applause." The second broad- side stems from an earlier period. It is the "Plan of the House of Representatives" for the Thirtieth Con- gress, the only Con- gress in which Lincoln served. In addition to a diagram indicating the seat of each Congress- man, there is a list of the residences in Washington of every Congressman at the bottom. This broadside will not only provide a "feel" for Lincoln's Washington surround- ings but also a useful tool for analysts of ear- ly Congressional voting, some of whom have noted a high cor- relation between voting behavior and boarding- house residence. It was the custom for Con- gressmen to leave their families at home and live with other Repre- sentatives in one of Washington's many boarding houses. Mary Todd Lincoln accom- panied her husband to Washington, but she soon returned to her home. Lincoln thought that she hindered him "some in attending to business."
The House of Representatives met in what is now Statuary Hall in the Capitol. Though there were separate sides of the House for Whigs and Democrats, Congressmen drew their seats by lot. Lincoln's back-row seat was a function of bad luck, not of political obscurity.
Lincoln's single term in national office before the Presi- dency was memorable for him. He would remember his House colleagues; Indiana's Caleb Blood Smith, for example, would become Lincoln's Secretary of Interior. Even his boarding- house keeper, Mrs. Sprigg, would be remembered. On July 21, 1864, Lincoln wrote his Secretary of Treasury: "The bearer of this is a most estimable widow lady, at whose house I boarded many years ago when a member of Congress. She now is very needy; & any employment suitable to a lady could not be bestowed on a more worthy person." She became a clerk in the loan office of the Treasury Department.
The Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum is indebted to Lincoln National Life's agency heads for the generous gift of these items. We owe a special debt to Richard B. Davies for his leadership as well as his personal generosity. It is particularly fitting to have a visible symbol of the spirit of cooperation and support for the Lincoln Library and Museum provided by Lincoln National Life's agencies over the last fifty years.
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(212)788-8597 FAX (2 1 2) 788-8589
Joan M. Nichols
Acquisitions Librarian Municipal Reference AND Research Center
DEPARTMENT OF RECORDS
AND INFORMATION SERVICES
31 CHAMBERS STREET, SUITE 1 1 1
NEW YORK. N. Y. 1 0007
AaguoL 10, 1992
Ms. Ruth E. Cook Assistant to the Director Iiincoln Library and Museum IJOO South Calhoun Street Fort Wayne, IN 46801
Dear Ms. Cook:
It is just a year since I attended the Federation of Genealogical Societies conrerence in Fort Wayne and visited your library and museum.
We had talked at that time about Lincoln's final trip to Springfield and I told you that I would send you copies of two records from the Municipal Archives.
At long last, I have made copies for you (not on acid-free paper). The Municipal Archives has ten volumes of records of bodies transported through New York City during the late 1^00 's. In the description you will see the name of the "person having charge of the body." P. Relyea was a New York City undertaker.
I am also sending you a description of this resource which just appeared in the newsletter of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
The New York City Court of General Sessions also recorded the Lincoln tragedy in a three-page memorial. (The third page would not fit on one sheet).
I trust everything is fine in Fort Wayne. It was a pleasure meeting you last year and seeing your facility. If you ever plan a trip here, please let me know. We have just changed our telephone system so I am enclosing a new business card.
Sincerely,
Joan Nichols
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From: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
The NYG&B Newsletter
B-Ann Moorhouse and Timothy Field Beard, the newest Fellows of the Society (F.G.B.S). Story on page 9.
ANOTHER NEW YORK STATE PERIODICAL
The following title should be added to the list of New York State Genealogical and Historical Periodicals in the Newsletter Summer 1991 (Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 22-23; see also Fall 1991, Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 27):
Capital District Genealogical Society Newsletter, Box 2175 Empire State Plaza Station, Albany, NY 12220-0175 (qtly, 8 p.) nws,src,que (Albany, Columbia, Schenectady, Rensse- laer cos.) [NY L AL13]
OBSOLETE TOWN NAMES
In the November-December 1991 issue oi Heritage Quest (pp. 61-62), Loren G. Fay includes a useful list in his "New York News" column. This list shows all the old [i.e., obsolete] town names which are included in the text of J. H. French's 1860 Historical and Statistical Gazetteer of New York State, but excluded from the index to that vital work. Thus if you find that someone was born in 1812 in Bengal, N.Y., and you can't find this town in French's index, refer- ence to Mr. Fay's list will show that Bengal is an obsolete name for the town of Vienna in Oneida County.
LECTURES AVAILABLE ON CASSETTE
Most of the lectures delivered at the Society in recent years, including the annual Fall Lecture Series, have been recorded on cassettes. Anyone visiting the Society is welcome to listen to these tapes, which are kept in the Library. We regret that it is impossible to make these cassettes available outside of the Society's building.
Little-Publicized New York City Sources . . .
by B-Ann Moorhouse, C.G., F.G.B.S.
Bodies in Transit at the Municipal Archives of The City of New York is a collection of records, kept only during the years 1859 to 1894, in 10 volumes, now available on microfilm at the Archives.
To aid in the prevention of communicable diseases, the Board of Health of the City of New York required that any body arriving in Manhattan via ship, train or even local ferry be registered. Thus, the vacationer who died out West and whose body was being shipped back for burial in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brook- lyn, the New Jersey resident or the Staten Island housewife whose body was being shipped merely across, the river for burial in Upstate New York, the Civil War soldier and sailor whose bodies were being shipped back to New England for burial, all were registered with the City. The registration applies as well to bodies being shipped in the opposite direction through the City to the West and South, such as the following entry* of especial interest which also serves as an example of the information found in these records:
Date of Passage
through New York: Name: Age: Nativity: Place of Death: Date of Death: Disease:
Place of Interment: Name and Address of Person
Having Charge of the Body:
April 24, 1865 Lincoln, Abraham 56y2m Kentucky Washington, D.C. April 15, 1865 pistol shot Springfield, IIL
P. Relyea
Later minor changes were made in the columnar headings, e.g., "Disease" changed to "Cause of Death"; and by 1869 two more columns were added: "Now at" (i.e., the location of the body) and "How Certified" (by physician or coroner, etc.).
This is a source to be checked when the death record is not found where expected, or the burial record is found but not the death record.
* Brought to my attention by Kenneth R. Cobb, Director of the Municipal Archives.
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What a nice surprise on a dreary Monday ! Thank you so much for sending the photocopies of records from the Municipal Archives. A real interesting addition to the files on transporting Lincoln's body to Springfield via Manhattan. Also, we appreciate the additional photocopies of the record of adjournment of the New York, City Court of General Sessions. What beautiful handwriting.
Even though it has been a year, I had your name in my suspense file and just kept moving it up each month. It hardly seems that long ago.
Again, I appreciate your thoughtfulness in sending this information for our research library.
Sincerely, Ruth E. Cook
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