The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln ... together with his state papers, including his speeches, addresses, messages, letters, and proclamations, and the closing scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J. Raymond. To which are added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter.

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TILE LIFE, PUBLIC SERVICES, AND

a canopy, and covered with black velvet, which stood in
front of the Executive Mansion.
At two o'clock the grand procession started. Pennsylvania Avenue was completely cleared, from tle Executive
Mansion to the Capitol. Every window along its whole
length-all the roofs of all the houses-the sidewalks, and
every accessible spot along the route, were crowded with
a living throng, awaiting in sad and oppressive silence
the approach of the funeral-car. The soft, sad strains of
funereal music soon broke the stillness of the summer air,
and marshalled the grand military cortege which led the
way. Then c(ame the hearse, drawn by six gray horses,
draped in black, and preceded by twenty pall-bearers,
selctd fiom both Houses of Congress, from the Army
and Navy, and from civil life, and followed by a great
throng of the most eminent officers of the Government,
and of deputations from every State and section of the
country, and from benevolent, industrial, and political
societies throughout the land. Filling Pennsylvania
Avenue through its whole extent, this great processionmarshalled with military precision, and marching to the
cadence of slow music from many bands-escorted, with
becoming pomp, the remains of the martyred President
to the National Capitol, which rose in white grandeur,
clad, from basement to the summit of its lordly dome, with
garments of woe, to receive the precious gift. The whole
vast building was draped in black. All the pillars were
entwined with crape,-from all the windows hung emblems of mourning, and a black canopy surmounted the
Eastern door, by which the great concourse was to enter.
Minute-guns from all the forts around the city thundered
forth their sad salutations,-the bells from every tower
and spire rang out in muffled tones their chronicle of the
stately march. At a little after three o'clock the military
(crteqe, which led the procession, entered the open space
i; front of the Eastern entrance. Filing past in proper
order, the infantry, wheeling, faced the Capitol, —the artillery took position on the hill opposite the entrance, —the
cavalry remained in the street, and a great throng of