Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Assassination of Lincoln
When it was known in February, 1861, that a conspiracy to assassinate the president-elect on his way to the capital, had been discovered and thwarted, the peril of the nation was the thought uppermost in all minds. When on the 14th of April, 1865, the news flashed over the land, that conspiracy had compassed the death of Abraham Lincoln, it was grief for the man that filled all hearts, for in those four intervening years his countrymen had learned to know, to love, and to trust him.
Their appreciation of his greatness grows with the years, and every incident in his remarkable career gathers new interest.
It was a striking tribute to his complete identity with the cause he served, that all through his administration his life was sought, for never was there a man with fewer elements in his character to excite personal enmity.
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