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![The Nation Mourns:
"Hastily and reverently the people approached... to seize an impression of the honored features. To those who had not seen Mr. Lincoln in life, the view may be satisfactory; but to those who were familiar with his features, it is far otherwise. The color is leaden, almost brown; the forehead recedes sharp and clearly marked; the eyes deep sunk and close held upon the sockets; the cheek bones, always high are unusually prominent; the cheeks hallowed and deep-pitted; the unnaturally thin lips shut tight and firm as it glued together, and the small chin, covered with slight beard, seemed pointed and sharp..."
-- New York Times, April 25, 1865
This letter, written by SS Elder, recounts his summons to the State House in Springfield on May 4, 1864, to seal Lincoln's casket for the last time.
Elder never used his sealing tools again. Instead, he writes that he "guarded them... as a precious memento of the sadest [sic] moment in American History. The moment when so far as the world is concerned the face of Abraham Lincoln was covered to be sean [sic] no more on Earth."](/Graphlib/GraphData12.nsf/Images/2012_DC_Fords_CEL_0160/$File/CEL_120212_111.JPG) |
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![Coffin Tools:
Tools used by tinsmith SS Elder to seal Lincoln's coffin before his burial in Springfield.
Note the damage to the blue State House pass. In a letter of his account, Elder wrote that "... the crowd surged up against me so that acid from the bottel [sic] splashed on the blue cardboard pass nearly obliterating the words printed on it."](/Graphlib/GraphData12.nsf/Images/2012_DC_Fords_CEL_0160/$File/CEL_120212_121.JPG) |
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![Map of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware:
[note that it doesn't mention West Virginia]
John Wilkes Booth used this map during his 12-day escape. Soldiers removed it from his pockets after his capture.
The interior of the book shows that the map was labeled "Exhibit No. 77" by the military commission trial.](/Graphlib/GraphData12.nsf/Images/2012_DC_Fords_CEL_0160/$File/CEL_120212_153.JPG) |
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![The Heart of France:
On December 4, 1866, a gold medal -- paid for with the contributions of 40,000 French admirers -- was handed to the American minister in Paris to be given to Mary Lincoln. "Tell Mrs. Lincoln that in this little box is the heart of France."
Spearheaded by writer Victor Hugo and supporting the Committee of the French Democracy, the medal was created despite opposition from the dictatorship of Napoleon III. "If France had the freedom enjoyed by republican America," the committee said, "not thousands, but millions among us would have been counted as admirers."
Even overseas, Lincoln's image was used to sell a variety of goods This wrapper for French gloves features his likeness, with the words, "dedicated to the immortal Abraham Lincoln."
Lincoln In Africa:
On his 1958 visit to the United States, Prime Minister of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah, visited the Lincoln Memorial and placed a wreath at the base of the statue. The next year, Ghana commemorated Nkrumah's visit with a postage stamp marking the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. In 1965, Ghana issued four commemorative stamps with Lincoln's image to recognize the centennial of his assassination.
During a 1959 interview for the Voice of America broadcast, "In Search of Lincoln," Nhrumah claimed that Lincoln's significance for Africans was his role in "the eventual emancipation of peoples of African descent in the United States," and in ending the evil of slavery. Alluding to racial issues in the US, he stressed [???] the continual need for vigilance in the name of justice and equal treatment, and he lamented that Lincoln's egalitarianism "tends to be forgotten even in these neglected times."
A Fitting Memorial:
An influential Romantic poet and a leader of the Spanish Abolitionist Society, Carolina Coronado influenced Lincoln's early reputation in Spain with her "Ode to Lincoln," published after his election in 1860. In it, she praised Lincoln as "the faithful son of the glorious, just, kind-hearted Washington."
Upon Lincoln's assassination, Coronado penned another poem in honor of the fallen president and, like many, elevated the man to martyr.
.... excerpt from "The Redeeming Eagle":
Blood overflowing from its throat and
shaking the fouled mud onto Richmond,
the victorious eagle lifts
America up and its flight astounds the world.
But my tongue doesn't sing its victory
for its wrathful valor in battle;
I sing to God for sending it to the earth
to triumph in the Christian war.
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In you the new dynasty was born
that will reign over the world throughout the ages
that majesty of majesties
that heaven entrusts only to virtue.
The scepter without human tyranny,
the crown without crazy vanities,
sprayed with your purest blood
the New World was left consecrated.
Humble woodcutter, the monarchs go
to place flowers upon your grave,
and rich ships and poor boats alike
lower their banners of a hundred colors.
For you, in all the regions of the world
sublime orators raise their voices
and the Christian church with its many rites
lifts your glory to infinity.
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![Postage Stamp:
This 16-cent United States postage stamp is from a 1938 presidential series.
[Note that the sign is wrong. The stamp is from San Marino.]](/Graphlib/GraphData12.nsf/Images/2012_DC_Fords_CEL_0160/$File/CEL_120212_883.JPG) |
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