ePub The Age of Agade: Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia by Benjamin R Foster in History

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII. Conclusion of Mrs. Hardinge's Narrative. My memoirs were written; and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers; when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror--the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; President of the United States. It was always the boast of Americans; were they Northern or Southern in their sentiments; that theirs was the only history that could show to the world a clear untarnished record of successful Republican rule. But their annals can be no longer so regarded; for; in the sudden demise of Mr. Lincoln by the bullet of an insensate fanatic; that peculiar institution of Europe; the school of the assassin; has transferred itself to the shores of America; and that country can no longer uphold her former boast that crime such as this had never been perpetrated under the Government commenced by George Washington. Personally I had no animosity against the honourable gentleman who has wielded the sceptre of Northern power for four long years. His has been a trying position. No man probably in the pages of History took his seat under more inauspicious circumstances. The Press of the world warred furious warfare upon him. He was jeered and scoffed at; he was pronounced uncouth; vulgar; low; servile; and abject; disappointed politicians and opposition cliques vied with each other in calling him upon every occasion the "rail-splitter;" and wiseacres of soothsaying proclivities speedily predicted that; with such a man as Abraham Lincoln at the head of the Government; the Union would most assuredly be split with as much precision and as quickly as Mr. Lincoln had been known to split rails when a backwoodsman in the Western wilds. Although a member of...