Show Jf Pih N C 1 1 or ra UNO a are r e 0 extracts botn a 0 1 0 paper giving per K 0 smal s mal recollections b c of abraham lin 0 0 coin coln which the 0 hon eon A S solo mons has c contrib 0 strib buted one day while hile in the W white bite house waiting walting to see the president I 1 found myself in line with perhaps fifty others awaiting my ray turn to come im mediately in front of me was rather a tall and stupid appearing fellow and I 1 wondered what in the world his mis sion was it was soon after the con tra bands had begun bringing in in formation relating to the enemy and I 1 was not surer sed to hear him say to mr lincoln in answer to his ques tion well my friend what can I 1 do for you youa I 1 see you are rather busy today to day and I 1 will come in some other time fine and tell you about what a con told me and here the president interrupted him by a slap on the shoulder sho ilder and with a steady gaze beginning at his muddy boo s with his trousers tucked in looking upward to his haggy baggy red hair ex claimed sit right down here and tell me all vou you know and winking at me over the stranger strangers s shoulder add ed and by tell g all 0 o oi I 1 know it certainly cannot take sou you iery long evident evidently the n an did not see the joke and sitting down tol I 1 a short story and was mas soon out of the room his love for fun served to hide many any an inward pang one day I 1 ac ae cepter an invitation to be at a review of the birst k arst army corps of the tle potomac under the command of gen reynolds hel hell 1 near to wash ington and the inver of the abbu lance in he rode becoming angry at his wild team of six mules used some rather original cuss word smiling mr air I 1 touched the man on the houlder boulder and said L c ise me my friend are you an episco 9 the man greatly startled cooled 1001 ed sheepishly wound and replied no mr president Pies ident I 1 am a method st well said mr air lincoln I 1 tho you must be an episcopal an beca se you swear ear just like gov seward who Is a very strict chi cht ach warden the war which many tho the would end in a few months draege I 1 itself along for the period of r early three long years ears aach wh ch as we ve all know were filled with startling stait ling events I 1 he time hen however ever came when the conflict A was as pa tally though not 3 et of ended gen sherman was mas mai matching ching the south having burned his 03 bridges him and gen grant hd his firm hand upon richmond the capital of the confederacy and its days were numbered it was aas then that president lincoln s second in augural came fondly do we hope fervently fer vertly do we pay that this lihty cour e of 0 war may soon pass away yet it if go gol wills that it con centime tinie until all the wealth piled up by the bond years ears of unrequited toil toll shall be sunk and until every drop of bloo drawn from the lah 1 shall be paid bv by another drawn from the sword so still it must be said the judgments of the lord are trie and righteous with malice to vard none with charity for all with firmness in the right as god gives us to see the light let us strive to the worl morl we me are in to bind up the nations wo ands to care for him who aho shall chall hae have borne the battle and for his big widow an I 1 it h s orphans to do all which mav may achieve and a just and lasting las tins peace S t down right here among ourselves oura elves and with all na eions when the prospect of success of the union arms A was as at a low ebb mr lincoln issued a proclamation implom ng the god of battles to perch vie tory upon our banners and earning raming a certain day for fasting and prayers it so chanced that on this very day a distinguished new york rabbi came to washington to ask the pro motion of his son then in the army from a second to a first I 1 lieutenancy leu tenancy and tor for this purpose I 1 was asked to accompany him to see the president with some reluctance I 1 complied compiled and although the white house was as closed tor for the day we gained admit tance to so t e pre ent and after hearing the rabb s request I 1 was startled by the pie ident saying to to him with cons demable feeling AS pods rods minister is t not your our duty LO 10 be to at home toda to da to pray with nith your p ale for the success of our arms NJ mylas ss stant has been assigned to that replied the doctor ah s 4 tte t President that Is daffe different an antT aith with that kindness of healt which eer ener the man drew to th a car cr ae I 1 and wrote t upon it the secretary I 1 of war will promote d BI blank to be a first lieutenant A I 1 and handing it to the doctor aid said mth uth a smile all his own now doctor iou you can go home and do 0 air o ir own pray in ine richmond fell and a few days afterward lee surrendered and peace was abst assured red the people took a long biedith and were jubilant never since the deat of wa washington wahington hington had the been such ananin ity fly of judgment as us to a man s virtues and greatness as that bestowed upon lincoln and the feeling came from hearts that fa aly riy adored the man for he was of the people and for the people in the broadest sense and they were lot in the least restraining their feelings in showing it and what ahat we come to know at this late day Is and history has recorded it that he led the republic through three long years ol 01 furious civil war without any serious detriment to our god given tree free insel while in this condition of transi tion and mr lincoln had just re turned from his famous trip to rich mond after its surrender I 1 chanced to be in the neighborhood of the white house early one morning when I 1 saw a detachment on the route step with arms at will lust just passing under the large portico of the white house and lk 0 61 lincoln lincoln Lincol nI when halted they be baoan ari cal ing lin cc coin in lincoln wl ie le between their shouts they cheered most lustily their wl beezy and ulmus cal oat band added to the clamor by injecting snatches of nat onal a rs with alth added crie for L lincoln present ly there appears I 1 at the second story window the tall frame of tl e dent who A wore ore a bro bron N n linen duster much wrinkled and potted with aith in I 1 immediately tho the I 1 and emphasized his pr c nee I 1 ly y a bla u of bias bi as arst ir st u ments the scream ng of fifes ard the b abing of drums tearful to hear the pres dent bowed it s thanks bu that did not satisfy wholly the crowd croad bo be nath wh ch had laidely increased vho aho calle I 1 sp ech speech speech until they the were acre almost speechless themselves and after much more r bucl cl et mr lincoln waved A aved his brawny arms for s ae e ice and began a speech which from his manly good heart breathed bre brea atred tiled such a loving I 1 andly feel eg rg toward the tile south that hid his words been put into cold type io 0 o id have licensed the northern masses who vv v ero still b rn ng with such in tense enmity aga ast the south that I 1 e would most surely have been b amed beyond measure for bis his hasty express ons of forgiveness for the hated enemy of but yesterday but he was so overjoyed with the pros pacts of peace that he could not re stra n himself and closed by saying that dixie which was the songor song of the confederacy was as much the na dional air of the rep now as the star spangled banner was before ane war aar fortt fortunately Fortina bately tely the hour was too early for reporters to be present and I 1 was happy when I 1 saw no mention of the event in the afternoon papers of the day nor in subsequent editions I 1 afterward anat the body of soldiery alluded to came on the same I 1 oat from richmond with the I 1 resi rest dent who had dodged them after land ing but who were determined to see him once more before disbanding at their homes had this expression ot of feeling been kept up by mr lincoln for any length of time it might have been said of him then as it was sub that he died at the right moment tor for the maintenance of his un s allied tame fame it was not long afterward that our own dear good president went home at the hands of the assassin on the misnomer of a day called good fri day a blace letter day indeed in our country s history such a day as I 1 haie neer never witnessed during a thirty years residence in washington though since then two more ot our beloved presidents have met the same fate by dastardly hands and yet in the wise elasticity of our constitution the government still lives and per haps providence to male known to the world the true ambition of a corn com plated benefactor of the human race such as president lincoln was by his example made him serve his country even more by his death than by his vigorous helpful self sacrificing life end n A th al ce 0 ova i a I 1 none A tl ti charity for 01 all and leaving as big his caf A ara that the coi eminent ot of the people for tl e ie and by the peo pie shall not 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