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Show VIEWED LINCOLN'S GREATEST VICTORY That the President Mourned Over the Sorrows of His Opponents Is Vouched For by an Eyewitness. A TELEGRAM which announced that Lee was about to surrender, surren-der, came to the White House in Washington during the stormy days of the Civil war. Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln left Washington immediately im-mediately to go to the front, and when news finally had reached him tha Lee had surrendered and the official! began to make preparation for the en try into Richmond, just as immedi ately Lincoln put his foot down and said, "There shall be no triumphant entry into Richmond. Rich-mond. There shall be no demonstration demonstra-tion Just now." He made his way to Richmond and walked through the city alone. There never was such a triumphant entry as that in all the annals of history. He walked with his head down, with heavy step and sad heart, and when he reached the southern cam- tol and went to His Head Bowed. Jefferson Davis on Desk room, he bade his two officials step aside and leave him alone. After a few minutes had passed by, one of them, out of curiosity, looked to see what had taken place, and there sat Lincoln, with his head bowed on Jefferson Davis' desk, his face in his hands and. his tears falling. And say that the angels of God never looked down from the battlements of heaven on a holler scene than that. His great, sympathetic heart saved the republic. That was the greatest victory vic-tory in the Civil war ; that settled the struggle; that bound the North and South together, and Abraham Lincoln, like his great Master, died of a broken heart. It burst with sympathy. The greatest victory in those days of struggle strug-gle was that Christlike sympathy. The greatest victory that is ever won on any battlefield of human life, in the hour when the struggle goes on, is won through the wonderful element that comes down from the heart of Jesus Christ his own divine sympathy for struggling humanity. Cortland Myers. |