| Show LAST DAY tn in McClur cs for august augast Is a paper on tile the death of oc abraham lin lincoln coll by illis idi af Tai maibell liell th the a N writer ri to r tells how for ten len days prior to th edy there fore alas as rejoicing as the world hail had ctr cr wiers s cn news of reported victories were coming coining in petersburg evacuated richmond fallen Je freison davis anti and ills his cabinet alej leo lee surrendered nothing of the confederacy in short chart remained but johnstons army and it was generally believed that its surrender to shermon was but it ii m matter a tier 0 of f hours the man that was most clad of all was abraham lincoln ho he had seen the end ap preaching proa chine for weeks now big alls duties were to bind ul the iho nations wounds to carb care for lint him who mho shall have borne the battle and for his hla widow and ills his orphan but something like it spell i was is over him A few days before ho he was waa selling balling down the csmos and repeated IHO or three times burican Is in H 9 crave after lifes fitful fever he sleeps well 1 1 reason his has dono done his N worst arst nor steel nor poison f malace mallco domestic foreign lovy nothing can touch him urther tho the day prior to ilia iho night on which ho he was killed thero thera was mas a cabinet gen cen grant had been as aaker ked to to it 11 the cabinet officers were plying grant with questions but the x writer says the president was least anxious of all the news would soon come lie he said and it would bo be favorable lie h had L d no do doubt u bt 0 of f 5 tor for tho the night before lie ho had had bad a dream which had preceded nearly every important event of the war of this dream secretary welles afterward wrote lie ile said it was in my deportment department that ho he seemed to 0 bo be in a hingular und and in vessel but tile aana and that ho a was wa moving fill crat r rapidity toward a dark and tilde anite shore that lie ho hat had ibis tin t gular dream tho firing on oil sumter the iho battles or of bull boll run antietam Antle tam f act of tvs burg stono itono river etc victory lectory did not follow his dream but tho event and ro re suits were important Im llo ilo had no doubt that a battle batho had taken 11 ice or at wits allbut f foucht 0 ht ani johnston Johni iton will viii bo be beaten behilo bior r I 1 ui and this strange dream maln aft last night it must itrato to sheri agai mil man ni thou lits aro are in that direction I 1 ord ard 1 know knon a of no other very important ei event ent which Is akely just juat now to occur I 1 in that cabinet meeting the question ot of reconstruction was taken up and lincoln said he hoped here would bo be no persecution no bloody corli worb atter tho the war was waa over nono none need expect he would take any part lit in hanging or killiri these men even the worst of them enough ches have been sacrificed we must extinguish tur our resentment if we expect hat mony and union on that day he was more cheerful and happy said secretary stanton than I 1 had ever seen him ho be rejoiced at tho the near prospect ot of firm and durable peace at home and abroad mani manifested tested in marked degree the kindness and humanity of his disposition and the tender and forgiving spirit that BO be cm distinguished him that ater afternoon noon lie ho took a drive nith ith iila his family As lie returned and left carriage ho he saw going across tho the lawn toward tile tho treasury a group of 0 friends among them richard Og lebby then governor Coer nor of 0 illinois come back boys come back lie ho shouted tho the party parly turned and joined the president on tho the portico then went to his emco omco how long wo we remained there I 1 do not remember cab gov oglesby lincoln got to reading some humorous book I 1 think it wits was by john phoenix they kept sending for him to como come to dinner lie ho promised etch each time to go but would mould continue reading tile book schuyler cr colfax and mr ashmun 0 of f massachusetts wore were with him when ho he was called to the th carriage carrl aee to acio go ao tile tho theater at the door he paused I 1 long ong enough to write on a card admit mr ashmun and friend tomorrow morning at 9 As he shook hands handa with then them lie ho said to mr colfax colfax Col tax dont forget to tell those people in ili tho the mining regions what I 1 told you this morning then entering the carriage lie ho was driven to the theater that was his last message on earth and what he told mr colfax was the story atory that liaa has often been repeated that lie ho expected the mines would pay the debt and mako tho the country I 1 ach but lie he greatly feared the mony money power at the alie theater ater the party was entertained by tho the president w i ile ho laughed good at the jokes johes and chatted cheerfully between tile acts then came the fatal shot and after that tile watch all h was taken up by bedside and at two minutes past 7 nt next morning tho the great man died ahe thre re vu a prayer and then tile iho 8 lemn voice of St stanton finton broke the nees now lie he belongs belonga to the it mas not until that morning that the voice of calumny was hushed not until that morning did the people of tho the united states stales get a clear idea of ahat abraham lincoln mas bas and the memory of the abuse which follo followed ned him through the four previous years douht to bo be a lesson to americans for all timeto nieto tl como come to bo be careful in their judgments of public |
