1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. National Disappointment. A Sermon on the Assassination of the President. Pentecostal Samuel Walker of Truro to

Samuel Walker of Truro to Thomas Adam

According to Thy Gracious Word

over there in the workshop

this is far and away the finest of them

Sacrifices aught of mine

1865 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. National Disappointment. A Sermon on the Assassination of the President. Pentecostal Samuel Walker of Truro to"At the outset of the rebellion, we were both unwilling and unable to believe that a civil war among us would ever actually come, till the suddent bombardment and fall of Sumter thrilled, like lightning, through the national heart, in the terrible conviction that civil war had already begun." "The President and the nation uttered . . . the immortal proclamation of January 1, 1863, by which the heathenish shackles were knocked at a blow from four