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National Lesson From the Life and Death of President Lincoln: A Sermon Preached in the United Presbyterian Church, Canonsburg, Pa; On Fast Day, Thursday, June 1, 1865 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover
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We had seen the noblest youth of our land - that loving mothers had cradled, watched over and educated to manhood, the pride and strength of their country - given by hundreds of thousands to the rebel bayonet and the sword of treason; we knew that thousands of them had been starved into sickness, madness and death; we had seen every source of wealth and happiness troubled, the hard earned fruits of freemen's honest toil poured by millions daily into the bottomless pit of war, and bereaved weepers walking all over the land; yet the moral sense of the Nation did not seem to be aroused and purged to see the enormity of the crime. We seemed to regard it as an unfortunate difference of opinion, as quite a par donable offense; inclined to take the red, treacherous hand, and restore to confidence the erring brother, with only a sharp rebuke. In our folly we were almost, if not quite ready to make a mock at this sin. But the crime, just in the hour of defeat, arouses its dying energies, embodied in the persons of these assassins, and stabs the nation in the bodies of her Chief Magistrate and Prime Minister. This was not the result of individual hate or personal vengeance. In the fall of our beloved ruler we can exclaim, with Antony, Oh what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then you, and I, and all of us, fell down, and bloody treason flourished over us; for the nation's life was supposed to be embodied there. Surely this should teach us that treason and rebellion is a heinous and a bloody crime, whether talked in the name of a once great political party, or acted in defense of a rebellious confederacy; whether uttered at the fireside or the forum, talked in the shop or the market, in the school or the church, it is an odious and flagrant crime, odious in the sight of God, and the greatest committed against civil government and humanity. It is this that has robed this nation in the habiliments of woe to-day. Oh that tears of grief may wash clean the moral vision of the land to see the crime in its magnitude.
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