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 fart tHat th= year we eeie f.rafe the semleeatenmal of the frat inauguration of President Lincoln In that aGt years the f8ee af the world has rather stafiliuGly changed bf population af fine uat.eu in lsf9 was only q fride more than 3E00od9. Of less than aue=thfd thaf If today There were 8hen Lincoln became pres adeni bHf thirty four siates in fine In Ien against forty six now. with two more on the way The steamboat. rail soad and telegraph had come Into gen eral use. but the telephone was not yet Invented: there were but few street rBrs, and these were moved by horses there were no ocean cables while the electric light automobile, wireless aeroplane and a myriad other inyen- tions without which the man of today would think himself lost were yet un- born unless in dreams.
 The city of Washington was then lit ale more than an oyergrown, strng- gling, untidy country village. The cap ifol wns unfinished. with great crane towering above 1t used in putting the dome In place Pennsylvania avenue was p8ved with cobbestones and was a street of low and unkempt buildings snterspersed with vacant lots
 MT. Lincoln had left Springfield on Feb. il That night he had spoken in Indianapolis and the next day, on which he became fifty.two years old hnd journeyed to Cincinnati. h browsing through New York Trib- une file Of the period l ran on to q peculiar and fateful item II occurred in the issue of Feb 13. In one col umn was contained the account of Llncon's duings on his birthday In abe adjoining one was short dispatch Trom Albany, N. Y, recounting that J. Wilkes Booth an actor, had accideu- sally fallen on the point of his dagger and wounded himself under the arm afeb i3 was also notable one in Lin coins career for the reason that the electoral vote was opened and can Tassed and he was declared duly elected This was not the mere for mality as at other times, as the air was full of threats and rumors.
 LincoIu's speechmaking tour ended al Harrisburg. whence he made his famous midnight trip 10 Washington. Again there had been rumors and threats. and the north preathed an other sigh of relief when the president -eiect was safe in the capital Mir Lin eom lodged at Willard's hotel and spent the intervening days fin meeting friends finishing his inaugural address ana selecting the final members of his s'si snnef
 The morning of March 1 was cloudy with 4 raN wind, and the day prom fse1l "a he ss bad as some of the subse Quent ones that have made the weath- ar depar' #enl famous fl tlearpd to gard- nuru. however. and the after aoau Ngs snushny aad came HIS near e being dereai ae March | in Wash Me5on ever is President Buchanan s.,zanIuad at fhe eaHlteI All noon slgn sna Duts aad thefr was even gossip 10 stt sHeri tha ha affiNed his name Co sease measures after his term of oificc 4aa avtualy expired He then drove To Ay1Aanls for fhe president elect. and ns procession WIS soon pounding over qhe rebblestones of Pennsylvania ave nue.
 AS Inauguration duy approached ahere had been Increasing evil omeus Washington was full of southern sylu p0tni2erS and the burden of the sons heard m the streets and elsew here wa that Lincoln would never be inaugu rated On the very day some chap ii a New York hotel offered big odds ( shat effect but rather jnglorlously eVAporated when hts bun was calleC That there was apprehension anon he friends Gf Lincoln was shown b ghe military precautions Troops wer stationed about the city. especial along the line of march on Peunsy v-xnla avenue and around and in th capitol. Sharpshooters were on th guogs of the houses. and General Vii 'he4c Scott, with flying squads of art ezy, was about the streets waiting [, trouble. Newspaper correspondent complained that there were so man resps surrounding the presidents 'aEriasse that the people could not s, She occupants Al the capitol WOO ro tlnnel had been eonStructe, ShroaSgS which the president and pre- sslenf eieVS passed This was guan vd. Thene Was even a squad of SC siiers under the platform where I.l rvln spoke. Despite all these preea' sScns or because of them-there WI Det ass uutowand incident during Il day. General Scott was very muc an sne 1ob aud If there must be war | did not propose that II should begi with be assassination of the chit ksS8re
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