ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BORN, JULY [FEBRUARY] 12, 1809 — DIED, April 15, 1865.
[Abraham Lincoln was born on 12 February 1809, not 12 July.]"After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well;
Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him further."
OUR HONORED PRESIDENT, ALL AGREE,
"Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
The deep damnation of his taking off."
DUTY OF THE HOUR.
"Let's briefly put on manly readiness,
And question his most bloody piece of woe
To know it further -- Ill deeds are seldom slow,
Nor single -- Dread horrors still abound--
Our country -- it weeps, it bleeds; and each new day
A gash is added to her wounds."
Shakspeare applied to our National Bereavement.
[[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by John Lancey, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.]
[Illustration of a hand with index finger pointing at the following text ] Sold, to dealers, by B. B. RUSSELL & CO., 55 Cornhill; LORING, 319 Washington St.; B. J. REMICH, 515 Washington St.
[Quotes are from William Shakespeare's play MacBeth: Act 3, Scene 2, lines 26-29; Act 1, Scene 7, lines 18-21; Act 2, Scene 3, lines 114; 108-109; Act 2, Scene 2, lines 4-5; Act 2, Scene 2, lines 8; and Act 4, Scene 3, lines 39-41.]