Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-04-29
IT'HEr COFFIN I'm lHE R0IUNDA
View Of the Deceased President
The Remains on View
EXERCISES ON EAST TERRACE
FUNERAL qORATION
ew9h larNT FULL.
GENERAL VIEW.

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Saturday, the 29th of April, 1865, will be q
.(aY, long held in remembrance by the citi-
Tens Of Ohio. On that day, all that was
taortal of the late President of our Repub-
lc passed through Ohio's Capital City on
its way to Its final home in Illinois. Many
funeral pageants had been seen In our city
1-several had passed Through our State
before this; but the grand obsequies
to-day threw them all far into the shade,
and totally eclipsed all former. demonstra-
tlons in honor of the illustrious dead. But
it was not a mere pageant that we beheld
to-day. There was accompanying the
procession and the solemn exercises of
the day, deep and heart-felt grief that per-
vaded every bosom and pierced all hearts.
Afgreat State seemed to5be throbbing at
her center-at her very hearts core-with
iunutterable, sorrow at the great calamity
that had so suddenly, and at SO inauspicious
moment, befallen her and her sister States.
~ Whose mortal remains were those that
,eilcited all this grand funeral display and
caused profound grief and mourning in our
Capital, throughout. the State and all over
our beloved country? They were those of
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the sixteenth President
Of the United States. Fifteen Presidents
had preceded him, of whom only three sur
vive., The first twelve Cesars or Presidents
of our Republic had gone to- their reward
ID the spirit-land. Each had made his exit
BY what we call a natural death. 1t was
the lot Of the sixteenth to fall by the hand
Of an assassin-an unprecedented event I'M
our national history and the most deplora-
bic and saddening disaster that has occurred
since the first settlement was made on our
shores. Other Presidents have been sum-
moned away by the hand Of death while in|
the exercise of their high Office; but it was
at a time when the country, was at peace
and enjoying. comparative quiet. Not, sol
with President LINCOLN. He was called
away when to human ken the nation most
needed his services, when great civil war
was in progress, but when he seemed to-
be about to become its great pacificator and
toTestore Peace and iUnion to a bleeding
anddistracted country. y. yi7 9dp.3 aI93
This day, when the body of the deceased
President arrived In our city, Is Just two
weeks from the dayiori which he died. att
the National Capital. He expired on sSatur-ii
day, the 18th of April, from the effects OF
the, wound Inflicted by an assassin the|
night before. Two weeks from his DEATH
his remains are carried In molrnful pro-
cessionS through our streets, at about the
same hour in which thesad news of his as J
sassinstioi and its fatal result was COM
mpnicatd to our horror stricken cou-|
munity! iIrhstEo weeks'intervali betweenl
th5arsOeptionlof that news and tie great
funeral here, was one long season of SOTO or VI
and mourning. Everywhere were to- be
seen the emblems ofa griefthat defied con-
ISOLATION. Private and public bniIdings,|
offices, halls, stores, places Of business and
even the resorts Of public amusement,
were draped in deep mourning. The Cap
itol expressed on its front and In Its interior
the absorbing sorrow that hadytaken POS
session of the people In OhiOis Capital City
and State. ~ fisfl'l e = = = = "a