Excerpt from In Memoriam Abraham Lincoln, Assassinated at Washington, April 14, 1865: Being a Brief Account of the Proceedings of Meetings, Action of Authorities and Societies, Speeches, Sermons, Addresses and Other Expressions of Public Feeling on Reception of the News, and at the Funeral Obsequies of the President The citizens, the Board of Trade, the Masonic order, the Churches, all took proper action on the occasion. 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.