Excerpt from Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln At a special meeting of the City Council, called for the purpose, April 17th, 1865, the Mayor communicated the decease of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, to the two branches in convention, as follows: Gentlemen of the City Council: I have convened the City Council that you may manifest your sense of the severe bereavement which has so suddenly fallen upon the country. Amid the jubilant anthems of a loyal people, as the bow of promise and hope was beginning to illumine the clouds that had darkened our country's horizon, even while the dew-drops of pity were tempering to too lenient mercy the policy of its kind hearted victim toward his deluded countrymen, the assassin hand that for four long years has been raised against the national life, has stricken down in cruel murder the chosen and beloved Chief Magistrate of our land. The earthly life of Abraham Lincoln is finished. The tears of a grateful country are freely flowing to his memory. He has gained all that life can give. He has won his crown of immortality through that sublime patriotism which gave to his country every throb of his pure and tender heart. This most gigantic crime of modern history could only add the crowning glory of the martyr to the spotless fame of the patriot, as it laid his lifeless body on his country's altar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.