Show ROM the presidents president s room in the white house lou on can ale 6 e prominent objects in alexandria s six miles down dolan the potomac the one prominent object which then for days da 3 attracted and of tended the patriots eye from those win N in dons was the rebel flig dig floating from the staff on the root roof of the hotel in that city as if in dell ance of the nati nation onil il abitol a few miles n 1 awa away president lincoln s young oung neighbor n of springfield llmer E ellsworth mounted alone to the roof cut it down and was himself killed by the he rebel owner as he descended the tit et 1 1 ra called ailed on the president den t just afler that tha t mccurr occurrence ence wrote john jobu 4 kas ton son and congratulated led him as ar I 1 stood ly by th the e window ou an the improved view alik down the e potomac polemic where instead of th confederate the union flag non floated I 1 was as taken abick by b mr lincoln Lincol ns s jobless response le es but I 1 it t vias as at a terrible cost and the tears r rushed u sh e d into his eyes eires as he s ild dd it it was his first personal lion don of w ahat hat the N ir meant his ten der respect tor for human life had bad r plind its first agouni it was vias not bat tie ile it il wa assassination lip HP did not foresee tile the hundreds of thousands who ubo were to fall before thi hi treat strife would be ended lie he oft lit erard learned to blar the lo 10 4 if f f housings in battle more bravely thin ne me bore the I 1 loss oss of this one in alii th je KinnIng of the contest lut tin lop vt pi a single hinsle life than in tle ranked rank d was as always h hard for bin as so often shown in his action upon the judgment of courts martial after the repulse of he Is reported to have said it if there Is a man out of hell that suffers more moie than I 1 do I 1 pit him one morning mornine billing on him at an early earl hour on business busine say sas s ter colfax I 1 found him so pale and careworn that I 1 inquired tile the chuse lie replied telling me of bad levs re at a late hour of the night and not 3 et printed adding that he had not closed ins his eyes or breakfasted and then he sald said with an anguished c which I 1 shall acer arget how HOT willingly willing would I 1 exchange cs toda with the soldier who sleeps on the ground in the army arm of the po llo cornic the morning after blood battle of the 1 wilderness ild erness I 1 siw him w wilk ilk up tit and down the exec uthe chamber his bis long arms behind his back his dark tea fea tures lures contracted still more with goom gloom and is hl he looked up I 1 thought his face the saddest one I 1 hid bid eer seen scon he c inay by do we tp suffer acier les after reverses could we ve bao bano avoided this terrible blood war N was as it riot not forced upon us Is ib it neier neer to pir and it but lie he quickly and told nic me the sad bad icart gale of dhosi days das of bloodshed in the anecdotes of abriham lit I 1 it is related that during the mtr ir a lad belonging to a prominent ken tuck family visited washington to beg for her sons pardon v who he n i is s then in prison under of de ith lor for belonging to a band of gerrillia gur rillia who ho had committed man mail murders and outrages eiith the mother was her daughter daught cr a beautiful oung lad who was vas an accomplished musician mr air lincoln re reaid eid the Ni in his usual kindly manner and the mother made known the object of her lisit her plea with tea tears Is and sobs bobs and all the customary cub tomar instances there were vere probably extenuating circumstances in favor of the rebel prisoner and while tle the president seem heern ed d to be deeply pondering the oula lady moved to the piano near b and taking lakins a seit commenced to sing dentle annie a sweet and pathetic ballad which before the war was vaas i fi song in almost elier eier houie bouse hold in the union and 1 is b not yet en forgotten for that matter inetter it Is to be e presumed that the young oung lady ciu bing g the song with more plinth eness criess and more effect than old abe be had fer eer heard it in during the HIP bog be rose arose fr from his seat cros crossed cd the room to a window wando in the westward west N est through w which aich he 1 I for several minutes with that sad far ava aw a look N inch has so often been noted as one of his peculiarities his meni menicie demor cir no doubt went hick dirk to the days das of his humble life on the banks of the sangamon and with ihlan of 0 old balam ind fib rustic store cama i t picture of the I 1 gentle annie of b hla Is youth outa biose ashes had rested for dinani long iong ears under the wild how flow drs ind and brambles of the old rural bur ing in ground but whose then per haps guided him to the side of miro 1 then hen wiping ills c acs cs ho he idin ced quickly to the desk wrote a brief noie chih which lt bi h add to the pid lid and in ili formold dormi d her tint that it was the pardon she 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