Lincoln's yarns and stories : $b A complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story tellerMcClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly)
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Lincoln's yarns and stories : $b A complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller
McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly)
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Anecdotes
John Surratt, the son of the woman who was hanged, made his escape to
Italy, where he became one of the Papal guards in the Vatican at Rome.
His presence there was discovered by Archbishop Hughes, and, although
there were no extradition laws to cover his case, the Italian Government
gave him up to the United States authorities.
He had two trials. At the first the jury disagreed; the long delay
before his second trial allowed him to escape by pleading the statute
of limitation. Spangler and O’Loughlin were sent to the Dry Tortugas and
served their time.
Ford, the owner of the theatre in which the President was assassinated,
was a Southern sympathizer, and when he attempted to re-open his theatre
after the great national tragedy, Secretary Stanton refused to allow
it. The Government afterward bought the theatre and turned it into a
National museum.
President Lincoln was buried at Springfield, and on the day of his
funeral there was universal grief.
HENRY WARD BEECHER’S EULOGY.
No final words of that great life can be more fitly spoken than the
eulogy pronounced by Henry Ward Beecher:
“And now the martyr is moving in triumphal march, mightier than when
alive. The nation rises up at every stage of his coming. Cities and
States are his pall-bearers, and the cannon speaks the hours with solemn
progression. Dead, dead, dead, he yet speaketh.
“Is Washington dead? Is Hampden dead? Is any man that was ever fit to
live dead? Disenthralled of flesh, risen to the unobstructed sphere
where passion never comes, he begins his illimitable work. His life is
now grafted upon the infinite, and will be fruitful as no earthly life
can be.
“Pass on, thou that hast overcome. Ye people, behold the martyr whose
blood, as so many articulate words, pleads for fidelity, for law, for
liberty.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S FAMILY.
Abraham Lincoln was married on November 4, 1842, to Miss Mary Todd, four
sons being the issue of the union.
Robert Todd, born August 1, 1843, removed to Chicago after his father’s
death, practiced law, and became wealthy; in 1881 he was appointed
Secretary of War by President Garfield, and served through President
Arthur’s term; was made Minister to England in 1889, and served four
years; became counsel for the Pullman Palace Car Company, and succeeded
to the presidency of that corporation upon the death of George M.
Pullman.
Edward Baker, born March 10, 1846, died in infancy.
William Wallace, born December 21, 1850, died in the White House in
February, 1862.
Thomas (known as “Tad”), born April 4, 1853, died in 1871.
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