that astonished and delighted all. Millions, lately in some degree opposed, were now united in feeling, and vied with each other in honoring his memory. The day following his decease, was that most joyful of all religious festivals, Easter Sunday; and as each minister ascended his pulpit, he laid aside his carefully prepared sermon for the day, and from the fullness of his heart, gave vent to words of sorrow and consolation for the awful calamity which had befallen the nation and created such a universal feeling of sadness and horror in the breasts of the whole community. But one short week before, the Sunday which opened upon Passion-week, that week of darkness and sorrow which contains the day when our Saviour was crucified and became the one offering for the sins of the world, each congregation had been gathered together to render thanks for the final triumphs vouchsafed our arms, and on that occasion one of the most gifted Episcopal divines selected for his text the words of St. John, "It is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not;" little thinking that words only coincident with the hallowed day, would so soon have such a literal fulfillment.

At noon, on Wednesday of Easter week, was the time appointed for the funeral solemnities of the murdered president at the national capital, and in every parish of the land, simultaneously were held memorial commemorative services. A whole people were in tears; a whole nation bowed down in mourning; a whole country draped in woe. The funeral ceremonies were very solemn and impressive, and were attended by all holding official positions at the time, in Washington. After the services at the White House, the body was taken to the Capitol, and there exposed to public view during the next day. On the morning of the 31st, the funeral cortege moved for his old home, where was to be the final resting place of the late president, taking nearly the same route which he had taken when he came from that home to assume the presidency, four years before. Baltimore, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis and Chicago, were honored with being the temporary custodians of his remains, until at last, on the morning of the third day of May, the funeral procession reached Springfield. Here, for twenty-four hours his old friends and neighbors pressed into the State House, where his body was, to gain a last glimpse of that homely but familiar face. At noon of the next day, his followers took up their last march, and conducted the remains to Oak Ridge Cemetery, a beautiful spot about two miles from the city, where with proper and appropriate ceremonies, all that was mortal of Abraham Lincoln was consigned to the earth that gave him.

The vice-president, Mr. Johnson, having succeeded immediately on the death of the president to the vacant office, on the 25th of April issued his proclamation recommending Thursday May 25th, " as a day for special humiliation and prayer in consequence of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States," but that day being Ascension-day he issued a second proclamation postponing the special services until Thursday, June 1st, when some of the finest productions of the pulpit were called forth. Each church vied with its neighbor in honoring the martyr president, and many, very many, sought to perpetuate its action by placing in permanent form the eulogy, sermon or address delivered by its respective

minister. It is in no slight degree owing to this laudable ambition that the writer is indebted for the materials for his present work.

Mr. Lincoln was certainly a most remarkable man. He was undoubtedly well fitted for the times in which he lived, and the emergency that confronted him. He began with a very moderate degree of public confidence and sympathy. A large proportion of the community had at the time of his first election, and for a considerable period afterwards, a painful sense of distrust, as to his qualifications for the position to which he had been called. This distrust was slow to yield. Good things were done, but they were all attributed, on account of this preconceived opinion of his ability, to the excellence of his advisers, while the evils and the mistakes were all laid to him. His physical organization must not be overlooked as one of the sources of his success. The great practical men of the world have been, not necessarily of large, but of strong bodily frames. To the heathen philosopher a sound mind in a sound body seemed the greatest good, "mens sana in corpore sana." The discipline of his early life prepared his frame for the laborious duties which were to devolve upon him. It is true that this discipline did not develop his form into a beautiful and graceful one. His warmest friends could not claim that for him, but they could declare that "his large eyes in their softness and beauty expressed nothing but benevolence and gentleness," and that a pleasant smile frequently brought out more vividly the earnest cast of his features, which were serious even to sadness. He has been called by one of his best friends "a wiry, awkward giant." He was six feet four inches high; his arms were long almost disproportionably so; his mouth and nose were both exceedingly large; his features were coarse, and his large hands exhibited the traces of toil. He was not specially attentive to dress, though by no means slovenly. The formal politeness of fashionable life he had not; though the gentleness of the unspoiled child of nature he had. He said once that he had never studied the art of paying compliments to women, yet they never received a grander one than he paid when he declared "if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to American women, it would not do them justice for their con. duct during the war." It has been stated that he had none of the grossness of life. He was not a licentious man. He was not addicted to the use of profane language. He did not gamble. He was temperate and he did not use tobacco in any form. Only those who have known the fearful extent to which these habits prevail among our public men, can appreciate the honor which the absence of them confers upon the late president. His honesty passed into a proverb, and his integrity was beyond reproach. It was not called in question, even in the hight of political excitement and vituperation. His qualities of heart were such as commended him to all men. He was naturally disposed to think well of his race. His prepossessions were generally in favor of a man. He would rather love than hate him; in fact he seemed as if he could not hate him if he would. The entire absence of vindictiveness, either personal or political, was one of the ripe fruits of his native tenderness. Was he ever heard to have said a hard thing of his opponents, or known to have uttered a single word showing personal hate or even personal feeling? Between him and

his predecessors no parallel can be drawn, for no other president ever held the reins of power through four years of virulent rebellion. It is therefore impossible to say how much better or how much worse others would have done.

Not graceful nor refined, not always using the English language correctly, he proved to be a meet and proper man for the times. He had the greatness of goodness; not a powerful nor a brilliant intellect, but plain practical good sense; a sincere purpose to do right; an eminent catholic spirit that was ready to listen to all sides, and a firm unshaken belief in the expediency of justice. When others with higher and more profound faculties might have failed, he succeeded, guided by his matchless sagacity and prudence, and common sense and native shrewdness. His thoughts were his own; they were fresh and original, and were clothed with a quaintness, a directness, a simplicity of style, peculiar to himself. He had a vein of humor which marked him from all other men in his position, and lost him, perhaps, the reputation of official dignity; and yet this very humor, which in most important emergencies could not refrain from making the witty repartee or telling the pointed anecdote, undoubtedly helped him to endure those fatigues and cares under which he would otherwise have sunken. This story of his life, which the writer has endeavored to tell with truthful simplicity and without any of those adornments usually bestowed so bountifully upon similar works, cannot be more appropriately closed than with the words of Daniel Webster, on the death of President Taylor, which indeed seem almost prophetic of Mr. Lincoln: He has left on the minds of the country a strong impression; first of his absolute honesty and integrity of character; next of his sound, practical good sense; and lastly of the mildness, kindness and friendliness of his temper towards his countrymen."

NOTE.-The following bibliographical monograph comprises a feature never before introduced into a like production, and for its general accuracy the compiler can vouch. It is, the statement appended to each title of the number of copies printed. This has been obtained at vast trouble, and although not entirely perfect is so nearly so, as to merit the consideration due to any new step onward in this difficult field of literature It is hoped that the list will be found complete: but that any one noticing inaccuracies or omissions will communicate the same to the writer. The titles as printed have all been transcribed from the original works by the compiler himself, with the exception of those marked with an asterisk; for these and their correctness he is indebted to divers friends, not the least among whom he has the pleasure of mentioning his publisher and colaborateur Mr. Boyd.

PHILADELPHIA, April, 1870.

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Sermons, Orations, Addresses, Etc.,

OCCASIONED BY

THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

ABOTT.

BBOTT. Price 5 cents. The Assassination and Death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, at Washington, on the 14th of April, 1865. Full particulars, with a short account of his life. By Abbott A. Abbott, author of the "Life of Abraham Lincoln." New York: American News Co., 1865. 16mo, pp. 24.

Price 15 cents. The Assassination and Death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, at Washington, on the 14th of April, 1865. By Abott A. Abott, author of the "Life of Abraham Lincoln." New York: American News Company, 121 Nassau Street. 12mo, pp. 12, Second edition, pp 16. Merely a compilation from the newspapers published immediately after the occurrence.

ALBION. Remarks of Hon. R. S. Burrows, and Address by Hon. Noah Davis, on the occasion of the National Obsequies of President Lincoln, at Albion, N. Y., April 19, 1865. Rochester, N. Y., C. D. Tracy & Co., Printers, Evening Express Office. 1865. Svo, pp 24. Edition, 1,000 copies.

The cover bears the title, "Address upon the Death of Abraham Lincoln, by Hon. Noah Davis."

ALLEN. A Discourse prepared for the National Fast Day, June 1st, 1865, on account of the Murder of our late President, and preached at St. Thomas' Church, Homestead, Baltimore county, Md. By Ethan Allen, Rector. Published at the request of its hearers. Baltimore: Printed by Wm. K. Boyle, Successor to John D. Toy, 1865. 12mo, pp 12. Text, Luke xxxiii, 28. Edition, 300 copies.