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Title: Memorial record of the nation's tribute to Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1810-1867 Harlan, James, 1820-1899
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : W.H. & O.H. Morrison
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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raham Lincoln, the noblest martyr to freedom;sacred thy dust; hallowed thy resting place. On each sideof the arch were the words, Abraham Lincoln, formed withsprigs of the arbor vitas, with the mottoes : Our guiding starhas fallen ; The nation mourns ; and Though dead he yetspeaketh. Near by this combination of arches were sixteenyoung ladies dressed in white waists and black skirts, withblack sashes. They sung Old Hundred, concluding withthe doxology. Many persons were affected to tears, the mili-tary and civil. Thirty-six young ladies were on a tastefully-decorated platform in white dresses, with black scarfs. Theyheld in their hands little flags. In their midst, and almosthidden in the folds of the national flag, was a lady represent-ing the Genius of America. It was a lovely group, upon whichall eyes gazed admiringly. Miss Colfax, a niece of the Speaker,and fifteen other ladies, entered the funeral car, and laid flowersupon the coffin of the dead. Meantime guns were fired, and the
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201 subduing strains of music gave a solemn sadness and beauty tothe scene. FUNERAL HONORS AT CHICAGO. On Monday, meridian, the 1st of May, 1865, the funeraltrain, numbering nine cars, covered with mourning drapery, ar-rived at Chicago, the great commercial city of the Northwest,bearing back to Illinois the remains of her honored and illus-trious citizen, Abraham Lincoln. The imposing scenes of theroute seemed to culminate in Chicago, and to be, if possible,more striking, more beautiful, and more impressive than hadyet been witnessed. Illinois was the early home of the honored dead, the fieldof his forensic life and labors, and the State in which he firstdisplayed those just and comprehensive views of statesmanshipwhich resulted in his election to the presidency, and securedfor him a rank among the most illustrious men of the world.Chicago, too, was the city where he received, May 16, 1860,his first nomination as a candidate for the highest office in therepublic, to which he was elect

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