Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States: Delivered at Rhinebeck, N. Y., April 19, 1865, at a Public Demonstration of the Citizens
O, how appalling the intelligence borne to us on swift wing four days ago, that our beloved President was dead; and when the circumstances of his death were narrated dumbness for a time seized the masses. Spontaneously the store, the shop, the fields were vacated. The pressure upon the heart was so great as to check every impulse of business. Men gathered in public places as if seeking for sympathy. At times it was impossible to realize the dreadful fact. It Seemed rather that each had awakened out of a frightful dream. And the few davs that have since elapsed find us but little bet ter prepared to realize the event. It still seems but a troubled dream.
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