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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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oned in groups along,, , Pennsylvania Avenue and on the roofs of buildings. Cavalry-Miiiohi,men rode beside the carriage that bore President Puchanan^^^^- and Mr. Lincoln from Willards Hotel to the Capitol. Not faraw^ay artillerymen were sitting on their caissons or on their horses,ready to move in an instant should General Scott give a signal. Butthe conspirators who had plotted the death of Mr, Lincoln did not dareattempt his assassination. From the Senate-chamber came Mr. Lincoln, President Buchanan,Mrs. Lincoln and her sons. Chief-justice Taney, in his black robe ofoffice, and the clerk of the Supreme Court bearing a Bible. They passedto the eastern portico. Thousands had gathered to witness the inaugura-tion. The Capitol w^as unfinished. Above the throng rose the hugederricks by which the marble and iron for the construction of the domewere lifted. Many of those standing beneath the portico w^ere inseparably con-nected with the historv of the country. James Buchanan, old, feeble.
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OUTBREAK OF THE REBELLION. 239 retiring from the Presidency, was representative of a political erawhich on that day was to have an ending. Abraham Lincoln, by hisside, was the incarnation of the idea which impelled the men of theMayflower to cross the Atlantic and establish a government of the peo-ple. Koger B. Taney had trailed the ermine of the highest tribunalof justice in the mire at the behest of the slave power. Stephen A.Douglas had been a willing agent of the slave-holders for the extensionof slavery; he had lost the Presidency through his want of fidelity toliberty. The life - work of Buchanan and Taney was ended ; that ofDouglas was soon to close. Mr. Lincoln had once alluded to themas house-builders (see p. 167). The fourth carpenter, Franklin, wasnot present. Once only after his retirement from the Presidentialchair had the world heard from Franklin Pierce. A letter whichhe had written to Jefferson Davis indicated to his fellow-citizens thathis sympathies were with the Sec

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