Abraham Lincoln (1897) (14591301858)

Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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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their seats, expressed their horrorat the crime, and gave condolence to the republic. If any one was able to relieve the pain and animosities which pre-vailed it was Abraham Lincoln, the words of Lord John Russell. In the character of this victim, said Disraeli, in the accessoriesof his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent that ittakes the question out of all the pomp of history and the ceremonial ofdiplomacy; it touclies the heart of nations and appeals to the domesticsentiment of mankind. From the outbreak of the Rebellion the sympathies of the working-men of England had been with the North. When the throbbing enginesof the Lancashire manufacturers became motionless for want of cotton,when half a million men and women were seeking employment, whenhunger was keenest and children crying for bread, they prayed for thesuccess of the North. By a heaven-born instinct they comprehendedthat the men upholding the flag of the Union were fighting a battle for APOTHEOSIS. 529
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MONUMENT TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, OAK RIDGE CEMETERY, SPRINGFIELD. ILL. (From a photograph taken by the author in 1890) all the world. The working-men of London sent these words to thepeople of the United States : Abraham Lincoln has endeared himself to his country and man-kind, especially to the toiling millions of the civilized Avorld. The lossof such a man is ours as well as yours. He is enshrined in the hearts 530 LIFE OP ABRAHAM LINCOLN. of the laborers of all countries as one of the few uncrowned monarchsof the world. A man, reads the tribute of the Working-mens International As-sociation, neither to be browbeaten by adversity nor intoxicated bysuccess, slowly maturing his steps, never retracing them ; carried awayby no surge of popular favor, disheartened by no slacking of the popu-lar pulse; illuminating scenes dark with passion by the smile of hamor;doing his Titanic work as humbly and truly as heaven-born rulers dolittle things ; who succeeded in becoming great without ceasing to