Excerpt from A Discourse Occasioned by the Assassination of President Lincoln: Delivered in Westminster Church, Buffalo, Sunday Evening, May 7th 1865 But the blackest page, as it seems to me, which the whole history of the past can show will be that on which shall stand the yet nu written, yet 'ungathered and unknown summary of the horrors of the rebel prisons, which con fined and slowly destroyed the soldiers captured from the national armies - pits of torture, where a deliberate, systematic, long protracted process of freezing, infection and starvation was coolly and unrelentingly carried forward upon tens of thousands of men taken in open battle, and carried forward in connection with circumstances of brutality Whose horror is be yond expression, and which the ear of decency refuses to hear. Our posterity will turn pale as they read that record. Mankind will exe crate the story with everlasting curses, and confess that this alone were enough to consign the exploded slave-holders' rebellion to the blackest abyss of human infamy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.