A Tribute of Respect by the Citizens of Troy, to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln (Electronic book text)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3above order. It is also ordered that the colors shall be displayed at half mast on the several armories of this command at sunrise to-morrow, the 16th day of April, and remain at half mast until sunset. By order. I. McCoNiHE Jr., Col. Com'g. G. G. Moore, Adj't. The eft'ect produced by the sad event was such as had seldom been witnessed in this city. A settled gloom rested on every face, and not only women but men strong men were seen to weep in the streets. At an early hour, moved thereto by a common impulse, business was suspended. Shops, counting rooms, offices, warehouses and places of amusement were closed, a few shops only remaining open, and those not so much for purposes of traffic, as affording centres for the discussion of the news and the exchange of words of grief, fear or revenge. Crowds thronged about the bulletin-boards which had so lately heralded our final victories, but which now promulgated this saddest of stories. At the newspaper offices incessant inquiries were made for fuller intelligence, and this intelligence when printed was presented by the daily journals in columns encased in mourning lines and borders. Flags which had for years past floated in token of victories achieved, and which of late had been flung, out with the greatest manifestations of joy and triumph, were how raised at half staff and festooned with crape. Public buildings were draped with the emblems of mourning, and on the front of private dwellings from the poorest tenement to the stateliest residence, was to be seen some token of the general sorrow. All classes of citizens gave themselves up to the indulgence of an all-pervading and unaffected grief. Men who until now had been silent and apparently unconcerned spectators of the events of the last four years, or who had openly opposed the course of the P...