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wherever civilization prevailed.
The manner of his death sent a thrill of horror everywhere; the rebound of feeling decreed his earthly apotheosis.
By the consent of the common conscience and judgment, the honored and beloved Emancipator became an adored Martyr; and Democrats in all lands instantly placed him by the side of Washington, in the calendar of their saints and sages.
The solemn words of his last inaugural address were recalled in nearly all civilized languages;1 and forty thousand French Democrats
1 The British Standard, a leading English journal, said of it: “It is the most remarkable thing of the sort ever pronounced by any President of the United States, from the first day until now. Its Alpha and its Omega is Almighty God, the God of Justice and the Father of Mercies, who is working out the purpose of his love. It is invested with a dignity and pathos which lift it high above every thing of the kind, whether in the Old World or the New. The whole thing puts us in mind of the best men of the English Commonwealth; there is, in fact, much of the old prophet in it.”
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