and wept and laughed,exclaiming, through their blinding tears: God bless you!
God bless Abraham Lincoln!
God bress Massa Linkum!
Those who witnessed this scene will not soon forget it. For a long distance down the Avenue, on my way home, I heard fast young men cursing the President for this act; but all the way the refrain rang in my ears,--God bless Abraham Lincoln!
Miss Betsey Canedy, of Fall River, Massachusetts, while engaged in teaching a school among the colored people of Norfolk, Virginia, had in her school-room a plaster bust of the President.
One day she called some colored carpenters who were at work on the building, and showed it to them, writing down their remarks, some of which were as follows:--
He's brought us safe through the Red sea.
He looks as deep as the sea himself.
He's king of the United States.
He ought to be king of all the world.
We must all pray to the Lord to carry him safe through, for it ‘pears like he's got everything hitched to him.
Th
84; closing sentence, 89; promised his God, &c., 90; his matured judgment upon the act of Emancipation, 90; simplicity and humility, 95; his first dollar, 96; Amnesty Proclamation, interview with Hon. Robert Dale Owen, 98; account of capture of Norfolk, 104, 240; exhausted patience illustrated; 106, 108; wounded Marylander, 109; as surveyor, 111; new clothes,
113; axes, 118, 289; never read a novel, 114; interview with Rev. Dr. Vinton, 117; telegram to friends at Chicago Convention, 120; riller, Hon. S. F., 174.
Mills, Judge J. T., ( Wis.,) 305.
Mix, Captain, 261.
Moody, Colonel, 102.
Morgan, John, 259.
Morgan, Senator, 74.
Murtagh, Mr., (Washington,) 321.
N.
Nasby papers, 151.
Newspapers, 154.
Nicolay, 149.
Norfolk, (capture,) 104, 240.
Novels, 115.
O.
Odell, Hon. M. F., 170, 178.
Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
(Poem,) 60.
Owen, Robert Dale, 98.
P.
Pardon applications, 40, 43, 132, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176,250, 296, 29