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Title: New world heroes : Presidents Lincoln and Garfield
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Farningham, Marianne, 1834-1909
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 Presidents
Publisher: London Felling-on-Tyne : Walter Scott Publishing
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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to mind. Had the solemnscene taken place in some neighbouring cemetery, I doubtwhether its effects would be more deeply experienced thannow, when we know that it has been enacted over thousandsof miles of ocean, and a vast tract of a distant continent.Why is it that the heart of this English nation, as well asthat of the great American nation, has been so moved atthe present timel It cannot be the mere contagion of anations grief, august and heartrending as is the spectacleof all the sorrow over a great man fallen. That can scarcelyhave travelled over sea and land to move our feelings asat this time. Neither can it be merely that we sorrow forft great career prematurely cut short. We have seen othersstopped in their progress by the rude hand of death as un-expectedly—bright hopes fading away; and yet there hasnot been this general feeling of mourning. Neither can ithave been only that during those weary weeks of suffering,borne with such Christian fortitude, the details of the sick
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■ lil THE FUNERAL. 297 chamber were brought to us day by day, and we learned toadmire the man who bore his fate so manfully, and to loveher who, with all a womans care, was tending through thoseeleven weeks the hopeless invalid. Neither can it be thatthere mingles with our thoughts any anxiety as to a changeof policy in the great nation whose loss we mourn. Poweris handed from man to man by death in all the great nationsof the world, and we do not feel any great or deep anxiety;and, least of all, when we contemplate that great nationwhich is now mourning, do we fear lest its steady, onwardcourse should be restrained or altered by the power of anysingle human will. Why is it we have been so strangelymoved 1 First, on that July morning, when the newsflashed across the Atlantic that the loved President of agreat people had been smitten by a mysterious blow, Ihesitate not to say that there was a feeling of consternation,not merely of dismay, throughout this community. We hadread in old

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