we know pretty nearly the amount of our national debt, the more gold and silver we mine, we make the payment of that debt so much the easier. Now, I am going to encourage that in every possible way. We shall have hundred of thousands of disbanded soldiers, and many have feared that their return home in such great numbers might paralyze industry, by furnishing, suddenly, a greater supply of labor than there will be a demand for. I am going to try to attract them to the hidden wealth of our mountain ranges, where there is room enough for all. Immigration, which even the war has not stopped, will land upon our shores hundreds of thousands more per year from overcrowded Europe. I intend to point them to the gold and silver that wait for them in the west. Tell the miners for me, that I shall promote their interests to the utmost of my ability, because their prosperity is the prosperity of the nation; and we shall prove, in a very few years, that we are indeed the treasury of the world.

IN CARRIAGE GOING TO THEATER. LAST WRITTEN WORDS. Allow Mr. Ashmun and friend to come to me at 9 o'clock A. M. to-morrow, April 15, 1865.

A. LINCOLN.

FUNERAL HYMN.

Rest, noble martyr; rest in peace;

Rest with the true and brave,

Who, like thee, fell in freedom's cause,
The nation's life to save.

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S PEN AND VOICE.

Thy name shall live while time endures,
And men shall say of thee,

"He saved his country from its foes,
And bade the slave be free."

These deeds shall be thy monument,
Better than brass or stone;
They leave thy fame in Glory's light,
Unrivaled and alone.

This consecrated spot shall be,
To Freedom ever dear;

And Freedom's sons of every race,
Shall weep and worship here.

O God! before whom we, in tears,
Our fallen Chief deplore;

Grant that the cause for which he died,
May live forever more.

THE END,

From Power's History of the Attempt to Steal the Body of Lincoln)

ILL.

(From Power's History of the Attempt to Steal the Body of Lincoln.)

INDEX.

Address to Committee notifying him of his First Nomina-

tion to the Presidency, May 18, 1860.....

PAGE

13

18

19

Address at Springfield, Ill., February 11, 1861...........
Address at Indianapolis, Ind., February 11, 1861...........
Address at Indianapolis, Ind. (evening), February 11, 1861.. 20
Address at Cincinnati, O., February 12, 1861....

22

Address at Columbus, O., February 13, 1861..............

25

Address at Pittsburg, Pa., February 15, 1861....

27

Address at Albany, N. Y., February 18, 181..,
Address at Albany, N. Y. (evening), February 18, 1861........ 32
Address at Troy, N. Y., February 18, 1861..
Address at Hudson, N. Y., February 19, 1861.....

31

34

34

Address at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., February 19, 1861............. 35
Address at Fishkill Landing, N. Y., February 19, 1861.........
Address at Peekskill, N. Y., February 19, 1861...........................
Address at New York City, N. Y., February 20, 1861....................
Address at Trenton, N. J., February 21, 1861.......
Address at Philadelphia, Pa., February 22, 1861...
Address at Harrisburg, Pa., February 22, 1861.........

36

36

37

39

41

42

Address at Serenade, Washington, D. C., February 28, 1861.. 47
Address to Delegates from Virginia, April 13, 1861.
Address to Frontier Guards, April 28, 1861.......

61

69

Address to Baltimore Committee, April 28, 1861....................... ...... 69
Address on Retirement of General Scott, November 1, 1861. 105
Address to the Senators and Representatives of the Border

States, July, 1862..........

.... 171

Address at a Union Meeting in Washington, August 6, 1862. 184
Address on Colonization, August 14, 1862.....

186

Address Respecting the Issue of Emancipation Proclama-

mation, September 13, 1862........

196