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Excerpt from The Fall of Abraham Lincoln; Slavery Vanquished in Arms, Resorts to the Pistol and the Dagger, Thus the South Is Avenged: A Lecture Delivered in the Corn Exchange Hall Dundee, May 7, 1865
We are this evening to consider some of the greatest subjects that can occupy the serious thoughts of men. The assassination of President Lincoln by J. Wilkes Booth, on April 14th, in Ford's Theatre, Washington, by a pistol shot which took such effect that while it occurred at ten o'clock, the victim unconscious from the mo ment, breathed his last at half-past seven. The following morning. At the same time was at tacked Secretary Seward, by another assassin; also his son, Frederick. I was afraid at first that it had been at Richmond. The boldness of going thither was great; yet safe at Richmond, Lincoln expires at Washington.
I shall state some circumstances worthy of note in the President's life.
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