a knife sprung from the box by
President
Lincoln, dashed onto the stage, cried "Sic semper
tyrannis!!", and rushed off. Now president
L is dead, dear old kind
Abe. An attempt
was made on Mr Seward's life too, who
was
sick in his bed. An assasin came into the room
under pretence of somebody sent from a
doctor, or something like that. He almost
succeeded in assassinating both Mr
Seward,
and his son who was in the same
room
with his father. Everybody's is house almost,
is just in mourning for Abraham Lincoln
The houses are draped with black, and white.
16th Sun.
[April 1865] The sermon was almost entirely
about
the base assassination.
17th Mon.
[April 1865]
Mother cleaned out the house,
and
I went to Aunt Louisa's to tea.
Mary, and
Hatty went to Grandma
Upham's