Posted on 04/14/2018 4:11:34 AM PDT by harpygoddess
Although he actually died at 7:30 the following morning, today is the anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) on 14 April 1865, only five days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Lincoln was very fond of the theater, and that evening, he and Mrs. Lincoln - likely in a celebratory mood because of the end of the Civil War - attended a performance of the comedy, Our American Cousin, by English playwright Tom Taylor at Ford's Theater on 10th Street NW in Washington.
There, following the intermission, actor and Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth managed to gain access to the Presidential box through a series of security lapses, and shot Lincoln in the back of head with a small pistol. He then jumped down onto the stage, shouted "Sic semper tynannis!" ("Thus always to tyrants!"), and although breaking his leg in the process, made his escape.
Lincoln's assassination was part of a larger conspiracy which also targeted Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward. Johnson's intended attacker lost his nerve, but Seward was seriously wounded in a stabbing attack that same night.
Booth was ultimately tracked down and killed on 26 April, and four other conspirators were hanged on 7 July 1865.
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But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
~ Walt Whitman, "O Captain! My Captain!," (1st stanza)
It led to racial tensions which only get worse with each passing year. John Wilkes Booth did more to damage the South than all the Yankee armies. Lincoln wanted to heal our nation's wounds and solve the racial problems.
well said.
Lincoln attacked the South instead of Democrats... sounds familiar? Seems
like the GOP Session of today attacking America or California instead of Democrats
Killing any leader you really dislike only means a worse one will be put in place to deal with it. People never learn.
“Found guilty as conspirator in death of Pres. Lincoln, Dr. Mudd’s family visit prison cell” at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, 2015.
https://youtu.be/BsSYjmMXKvE
2:54
“Dr. Samuel Mudd left Fort Jefferson — called the Gibraltar of the Gulf and believed to be one of the largest masonry structures in the Western Hemisphere — after being granted a pardon in 1869, primarily because of the medical work he did in stemming the spread of a yellow fever outbreak at the fort. But his conviction was never overturned.”
Execution of Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt at Washington Penitentiary on 7th July, 1865. Mary Surratt was the first woman executed by the federal government. She steadfastly claimed she was innocent. A good article here, https://www.americancivilwarforum.com/mary-ltemailgt-please-dont-let-me-fall-475.html"
For older people in the 1950s, the Civil War was still close. Their grandparents — or even their parents — fought in it, and they heard about it growing up. As children, they may have seen parades of Civil War veterans.
Just visited Andrew Johnson’s home in TN. He tried to implement Lincoln’s policies towards the south but simply didn’t have his talents.
Now he belongs to the ages.
I remember hearing about the last soldier of the conflict dying. He was a bugle boy.
In 1961 there was a dramatic series about the Civil Wat called ‘The Americans ‘. I watched it religiously as a 12 year old.
Booth was a Democrat. Like all of our other political assassins with the exception of John Patler who was a socialist.
I’ve always held a similar idea with regard to supervisors. When co-workers whined over how much they hated the boss, and wish he’d be replaced, I’d tell them they could get a worse replacement.
Quite often that was the case, in that much worse supervisor came in as the replacement.
Great info! Thanks for posting
Absolutely. Booth killed the only friend the South had in Washington. Lincoln would have been no hero to the leftists today had he lived and been able to recolonize blacks back to Africa as he wanted.
at least one book claims the dreaded ...A word!
Thanks harpygoddess.
Lincoln's assassination was part of a larger conspiracy which also targeted Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward.
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. | First Inaugural Address | Abraham Lincoln | Monday, March 4, 1861
Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came... Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other... The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes... Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. | Second Inaugural Address | Abraham Lincoln | Saturday, March 4, 1861
“at least one book claims the dreaded ...A word!”
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make that “E” word!
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Thank you for that. That poem has always given me goosebumps........
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