Excerpt from The Nation's Loss and Its Lessons: An Occasional Discourse, on the Assassination of President Lincoln When, in days past, other public men have been re moved by death, it has been customary to show them appropriate outward marks of respect, but never has the nation mourned over a bereavement as it mourns to-day for the loss of abraham lincoln. It is as though death had entered every home, and had taken away the most loved one of every family, and so, sitting around our darkened hearth-stones, all bemoan him; and all that know his name say, How is the strong staff broken! 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.