Eugene daily guard., April 15, 1908, Image 6

CLOSING DAYS OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S LIFE
this corpse, thai bears for
i liiu'la Mil .n.lnr. morn Imupmtlvn in'ivumont ihmitth the theatre of a Bedide
; with Lincoln, that the audience a a-1 man extremely pale and extraordina-i winding sh1' . . d ,u
nenihled lu expectation of their cn-n-irlly handsome. Entering the door The btars and &mp-s i -Ing
might not be disappointed. So, that opened on Ihe parage in the; ""ear anew. . ,
.with .urs. i..nr..lu aJu iu you. J rear of the president, hux, he closed i Between the mourner, at tola Head
I fi-l.'iiflH ili iir..4l.lMiit 4'n drlv.-n ti. nn.i hUrri ir i.,hiiul him. Opening anu ieei.
i Ford's theatre, .hut "a few blocks then unnoticed ihe door to the box ; Say,
f-u-ril j.ster, la there room for
o
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Abrutium Lincoln
t awjiy, arriviug afttf the performance Itself , he stood within a lew teei 01
I had begun. The actum suspended, the president l.in' i.ln'n countenance,
I Ihe orchestra broko Into the ini vltu-, so lined and T-aim-d with heavy cares.
I hie -Hall to the Chief," and the au- w0s relaxed in smiles. Ills sad, de.O
) dience rose In greeting that was a lu- sunken eyes, darkened with great
i mult of enthusiasm us Lincoln, con-' troubles so long a time, gleamed in
Hplcunus everywhere because of hix . humoious appreciation. He released
great height, made his wuy along the t himself to Ihe enloyment of the hour
wall of the gallery to the box that j in the huoiiy consciousness that w ith
Ifad that morning been reserved for : the union and iiis. lf, all went well,
his occupancy ,id decorated in hlsi The uninvited coiner raised his
honor. . j Derringer, took deliberate aim and
Beautliu aiA balmy as tne morn-1 fired. The ball sped true to Its lodg
ing had been, the night was cold, and I ment I" Lincoln's brain, piercing the
feeling after a time a sense of clii 1. j ft side of the skull just behind the
llneas, Lincoln put on again the over. I ear. There flowed a few hours of
soat he had removed. Beated in an I unconsciousness. Then, his life work
trm chair, he appeared to enjoy the i done, Lincoln passed, as Stanton said
performance thoroughly. Between with. Inspiration, into the possession
ralrry captured It. I presented the the acts his box engaged a larger or 'Be ages.
question to the Attornoy-tienerul, 1 share of the attraction of the audi-
and lie gave, his opinion that It was ..pee than was usual, for Grant's ap
our lawful prize." ! pearauc'there was momentarily ex-
The initiated popular enthusiasm peeled and all were anxious to see
compelled his reappearance later .the Hie silent general who had achieved
same nflernol l, and he made a for- sucn worin-eiKiiirlng victories.
- House that, against his inclination,
for he prclerre.Oto reserve what he
had Mr say f r la formal ga'.h ring
q, lined for TuesJny night. Lincoln
u.nlreHiscfl them. 4'He' made an end
of ti i as impromptu spec' by saying:
"i propy.se now closing uy'reuuesl-
Ing you to play a certain air or tune.
I liuve always thought "Dixie" one ol
the best tunes 1 ever heard. (Laugh
ter.) I have heard tlmt our adver
saries over the way have attempted
l.'j appropriate It for a national air
I insisted yesterday that we had
PIXCI S TKIHITK TO I.IXCOLS
(Albert Miller In Pacific Oullook.)
it may not he given to tn.'rf gen
eration to realize with what nearly
Infinite Joy the news of Lee's sur
render was received over the entire
North. -o Imagining may supply
tlie experiences of thode four years of
dreadful strlle. There was not a
Jioine In all the land In which the
war did not erect an altar of sacrl
jro to lis necessities, whereon even
the j'JC'orest made offerings of Jlfe
and treasure. The news that was
flashed over 1ih country In the two
words, "Li"i suif'-Mldein" Jiicnnt the
cessation of the frightful rflfiire
uieuts tho war Increasingly niad.i. At
length If was nil ovor. Th uullon
had been preserved. Tens of thous
' iinds slept In soldiers' graves, a huge
debt weighed down the republic, hut
tho union hud been perpetuated, and
- Joy overwhelmed the whQlQ
lionplc, , ,
Lincoln liliiisulf became a wonder
fully enunged man In the few days
... him lit life nflnr Loe'k
.l. bi'vh . . t.
msrrender sealed the end, ot the Con
federacy, tt hail linrno the bunions
T tho war and of tits nation, titul In
day thej wf8 hnrtly lifted front
hi Wet) lied shoulders. The end for
which ne had fought hail been
achieved or was measurably within
attainment, and he became possessed
of a high serenity that transformed
I his very being. Ho does not seem to
have had any premonition of the fate
that even then brooded la the swiftly
advancing dnya. It hits been urged
that when returning to Washington
from City Point he read to Summer
f Mas3achus3tts the lines from ;,iuc-
beth:
"Duncan Is In his grave:
After lire's fitful fever, he sleeps
well;
Treason hns dnno his worst; nor steel
nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign, levy, noth
ing. Can touch him further!"
If, when ho read, he made person
nl application of any of these lines to
himself, there Is nothing to show
that hn did so, because of apprehen
sion of his Impending death. There
Is, opposlngly, abundance of evidence
to sustain tho belief that he looked
forward confidently to the carrying
out of the nobly generous recon
struction policies he meditated.
On Monday, tho day after Lee's
surrender, so great a number of poo
plo gathered In front of the White
mal speech on the night of the next
day, Tuesday, April 11. Meanwhile
news from the armies fanned 'the gen
eral, delight to continuous ecsijiclcs.
Hhermun had learned in the JZih of
Leo's surrender, had captured (lov
ernor Vance of North Carolina Lie
next day and was awaiting an Inter
view with (l.'iiernl Johnson set for
Ihe lr.th, After an attack lasting
nearly two weeks'. Mobile surrender
ed on the litlh, and .Montgomery, Al
abama, Ihe flrt't Confederate capita!
has been occupied.
April 14, ISC:. ,t,,.i ,. w..,h.
Ingloii wl.li an the promise of a pi?.'
feet day. The very soul of spring
wim In do air. It was ono of tbs
lovely days that come in that lalli
lude after Ihe last suggestion of win
tor lias departed. .The wholq
conscientiously seemed to re.o',,,,,',1 ln
tho soft woolngs of thai- ,, v
beautiful day. What W()1Xr th"
Washington, wrou-V t7 exaltation
by recent evsP'; wft8 acut(jly 8uace)t.
inn 10 me (ne exhiieraiiumi f the
sensory The illumination of the
'nlgbl before had by no means, f,.
hnusted Joy In Its expression. I.Ike
the coitrVi ii,9 cftptal still Intoxl-
Cnlutl Willi enthusiasm.
The White Hoiisp dVefflawed hap-
pluess, - Rolml'ti tlld ton, returned
that Ihorrtliiiii bearing to his father
details ot the events that followed in
such swift succession after the pres
ident sailed down the river on April
8. braril hAd come to the front to
discuss wlih Lincoln tbe problem
that was Still to bb solved. It was
Friday, then, as now, a regular day
of meeting of the cabinet, and recon
struction was the theme that day con
sidered, Grant, being In Mtcndunce.
How Lincoln's kindly hoat't heat then
with ienrpn '.motion?.' There Was
no thought of revenge, tnl h'niisamer.'t
or or harsh measures In 'that P.T-eat,
sagacious mind. 'Thoru wfts but. one
object the restoration ot unity, and
for tho method sought that which
should attain that single object most
surely and with tho least friction or
delay.
in the arternooti he drove, as was
his wont, with Mrs. Lincoln his sole
companion. Returning, he rend to
friends from some late book of Idle
humor, protracting his rending so
that dinner was delayed because of It.
A theatre party had been planned for
the night. Laura Kueno Was giving
a iierformanee of "Our American
Cousin," which was at once her fare
well and her .benefit. Grant was to
have been a guest, with Mrs. Grant
and the very fact that Grant's chang
ed plans took him from Washington
The hum of low-toned coversntlon
Sir John Tennlel, the chief artist
of England's Punch, during the
course of the war between the states,
mm. whiio ihn ..r, h..uiro' i,,iub ..,,.!.. I drew many cartoons In most of which
supplied the entertainment of the Ir. I '-nc01l" w" caricatured. Some were
termisslons. Literature, politics and BmJ"ilnfv some w.-i v uiely cynical,
finance doubtless formed tne ub,i an,a were brutal. Hul Al lien Lln-
Jects then, as they do now. Our .Via,'"'1" wa assassinated IenuJn lrew a
mal Krlend, by Dickens, was then . . m vv' "." " " ' .
as was Armdale,
I liackeray had
running as a serial
iiy Wllkle Collins.
lion,- "Britannia S nipathlzes With
Columbia," in the Issue ut May 0,
lied hut. a little more than a year be-t repTesenting iiritanniH laying
fore. Speculation ran riot In tho 'cea n on the ini.iiyret Lincoln s
hares (Jf Pennsylvania oil companies. ,ji,,ir- U was t'conip;iniid by these
People riljl talked of the advent ures ! veist's:
of the Wnii'ee, a war vessel which
had sailed froni Hampton Heads tho
year before to round the continent
on lay a wreath on murdered Lin
coln's bier.
Von, with inocKtiic nencll wont In
you!
YcO he had lived to Bliame me for
O my sneer,
To lame my pencil and confute my
pen . .
To make me own this hind of princes
peer.
This rail-splitter a
of men.
,.9it
born ning
I learned to
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TP.fi niRTIIPItAcK Ofc AtlltAHAM t.INTOi,X
by wuy -of the Straits of KfnkelTan, I 'trace. . .
and with Its 2 0 officers and J80 men I TJrood for the self'tomplacent British
had been given up as lost. The stage sneer,
itself supplied subjects for enter- , His
talning gossip the while, during the
lex
audience still scrutliil.lng tho pres
idential box. Had'not lOdwIn liooth,
at the littlo White Garden theatre in
New York, but just concluded a
three months' run of Hamlet, regard
ed us an Incident In shakesperlan
hl"tory. qulto unnrocedeutcd!"
.At iJngth tho curtain rose ro'r the
third act. Grant had not come, and
hope ot his coming was now aban
doned. The audience addressed It
self to enjoyment 6t the play, as did
the occupants of the presidential box.
The first scene ovor, the second was
in progress. $o 'completely did the
action of the w'hiko 'ongage attention
that tew noted, 'fewer heeded, the
l
length f shambling limb,, his
furrowed face.
His gil'ilit. gnarled hands, his un
kempt, bristling hair.
Ills garb, uncouth, his bearing ill at
His lack of all we prize as dehon
I air.
I Of power or will to shine, of art to
please.
You, whose smart pon backed' up the
pencil's laugh,
Judging each step as though the way
were plain,
Reckless, so it could point Is para
graph, '
Of chlet'B perplexity, or people's pain.
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My shallow judgni
rue,
Noting how in occasion's height he
tosc.
How Tis quaint wit made home truth
seem more true,
How, Iron-like, his temper grew by
blows.
How humble, yet how hopeful he
. could be,
How in good fortune and in all the
same:
N'or bitter in success, nor boastful he,
Thirsty for gold, nor feverish for
lame.
The words of mercy were upon his
lips, I
Forgiveness in his heart and upon his
pen,
When hi", vile murderir brought
swif: eclipse
To thoughts of peace on earth, good
will toward men.
The Old World and the New, from
sea to sen,
L'tter one voice of- sympathy and
shame!
Sore heart, so stopped when It at last
beat high,
Sad life,, cut short just when Its tfi-
iinijili ainc.
eeJ accurst! Stroke nave been
struck, before
My tae assassin's hind, whereof men
. doubt .
If moio of honon or disgrace they
were;
But thy foul crime, like Cain's,
stands darkly out.
Vile hand, that braD-Sest murder on a
strife, i
Whate'cr in ferounds. stoutly and
nnblv .rivon
And' with t-.'ue martyr's crown crown-
. n a life
With, much to praise little to be.
forgiven. .
O CAPTAIN! MY'CAPTAIX!
(Abraham Lincoln, died April 15
1865.) .
0 Captain! my Captain! our fearful
trip is done:
The ship has weathered every rack,
the prize we sought is won:
The port is near, the bells I hear, the
people, ail exuiliug.
While follow eyes the steady keel.
the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of ted.
Where on the deck my Captain lies.
Fallen cold and dead!
0 Captain! my Captain! rise up and
hear tho bells! .
Rise up for you the flag is flung
for you the bugle trills;
For you bouqets and I'lbbon'd
' wreaths 'to you tho shores a
crowding; For you they call, the swaying mass,
their feilgefr. faces turning:
Here Captalh! dear father!
this arm beneath your head!
H Is some, dream ttyit on the deck
Yott've fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his
Hps are pale and still
My father does not feel my arm', he
nas no pulse nor will;
Tho ship Is anchor'd safe and sound
Its voyage closed and done:
From fearful trip the victor comes In
with abject Won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, 0 bells!
Hut 1, with mournful tread.
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen Cold and dead:
Walt Whitman.
to l...n m.r nrtnli tl.an s.... ..
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