The Portland daily press., 1865-04-24

felt BY the whole country to day. Indeed I
may well be doubted whether Washington
with his austere dignity and impenetrable re
serve was so near and dear to the hearts o
the people. especially the common people, a
this second "Father of his Country" who was
an thorouohly one of themselves; or, though
vanarated and revered as almost more than
human was lamented with SO keen and per.
sonal grief.
The funeral exercises at the Presidential
Mansion, consisting of Reading Of the Scrip.
lures, Funeral Address, and Prayer were con.
/ Quoted by Rev. Drs. Gufley, Hall, Gray, and
Bishop Simpson. The funeral procession ther
proceeded to escort the remains to the Can
itol. Its starting was announced by minute
guns and the tolling of bells. Pennsylvania
Avenue was at this time thronged by such a
multitude as my eyes never saw before. The
sidewalks, very wide and spacious, were occu-
pied along the route Of the procession by one
continuous throng, the windows were crowd
| ed, and In many places people clustered like
bees upon the tops of the buildings. First,
! with arms reversed, marching in splendid or
/ der TO the low continuous roll and mournful
throbbing of the mufied drums, came the ed
| Pennsylvania Colored Regiment. 1t was part
of Weitzel's command, and the second to en-
ter Richmond. This thought was as Mr..
Lincoln would have had II, and just tribute
it seemed, both TO the illustrious Emancipa-
tor, and to the grateful devotion of that race,
x1hiah hnw nI
pissed they may have been, loved him more
than life. afterward learned, with regret,
that this feature Of the procession was acct
dental. Then, marching to the same solemn
music, came the 10th and Och Veteran Re-
serves, then battalion of Marines, with
their snowy uniforms and their gaudily dress-
ed, but unequalled band, the fifes playing
Pleyel's Hymn. Then followed two batteries
Of u. s. Artillery, with shrouded guns, the
10th New York Cavalry with drawn sabres,
two battallons Of the 10Th and one of the
Sth Illinois Cavalry in fine order, Commander
of the Escort, Major Gen. Augur and Stat,
military and naval officers, civic procession in
coaches three abreast, the Marshall, clergy,
medical attendants of the late President, the
Hearse-a lofty car, drawn by six superb gray
horses, and surmounted by black conopy
allowing the coffin to be seen by all, and fol-
lowed by the late Presidents horse led by
two grooms, pail bearers, consisting of Sena-
tors Foster, Morgan, johnson, Yates, Wade,
Conness; Representatives Dawes, Coffroth,
Smith, Colfax, Worthington, Washburne;
Lieut. Gen. Grant, Major Gen. Halleck, Brig.
Gen. Nichols Of the Army, Vice Admiral
Farragut, Rear Admiral Shubrick, Col. Tel
lin, M. @. from the Navy; O. FL. Browning
George Ashman, Thomas Corwin and Simon
Cameron, civilians; the family OF the deceas.
ed and other mourners the President and
Cabinet, aanked by mounted guards; Ex
Vice President Hamlin, the Diplomatic Corps
the Chief Justice and Judges of the Supreme
Court, other officers Of the Government and
of State Governments, Clerks of the Depart.
organizations and the citizens generally. The
citizens Of Maine in large numbers joined in
the procession, and were led by Mr.. S. P
Brown. The progress of the cortege waf
slow and stately, and the department of the
people was in perfect keeping with the pro.
foundry solemn and mournful occasion. die
not see or hear of single indecorum or &C
cident in connection with this or any part o
the funeral services. The procession was al
hour and forty minutes in passing giver
point, and the spectators were multitude
that no man can number. bae rs
On arriving at the Capitol, which had beer
draped In mourning within and without, tn,
body Of Mr.. Lincoln was borne up the steps o
the eastern portico, where SO recently, amid th'
acclamations and benedictions of vast ans
mighty nation, beloved and honored beyond ex
preston, he had unostentatiously and solemn
ly assumed the mighty trust committed tt
him and which he laid down only with his life
into the darkened Rotunda. The burial ser
vice of the Episcopal Church was then reat
by Rev. Dr. Gurley, and the corpse was left Ii
charge of the military and the Capitol Pc
lice.
Thus have we paid our last honors TO one
whom we had fondly hoped to have long will
US. "6erG in Cglum redeGs" was the wish o.
every heart for him. Him had we hoped te
love and cherish and honor as our God-ap.
pointed deliverer through the golden and
peaceful years of the good time coming. Sud.
denly when our hopes were brightest, sudden
ly when our joy was highest, in the supreme
moment Of our triumph and his. God saw q
to confer upon him the glorious but awfu
crown of martyrdom. In the sublime cause
of justice and liberty, of truth and right, i
has been his, not to labor only, but to die
With bowed heads and crushed hearts woult
we say, "Not as we will, o God, but as Thor
wilt" Reverently, tenderly, will we commi
the dust to the dust, and in solemn faith ant
hope trust we the spirit with God who gave it
she wears truer crown
Than any wreath that man can weave him
But no more Of his fenown
Lay your earthly fances down,
Aud In the vast Cathedral leave him;
God accept him, Christ receive him. TSP