The Lincoln Assassination 5

The Lincoln Assassination, Part 5

With Lincoln’s death the country seemed simply to come unglued, as if all that was coherent and meaningful rested overmuch on the uncanny force of the person who had just been assassinated. How much the country needed the magnanimity and sense of compassion that seemed incarnate in Abraham Lincoln! And yet sadly all that seemed to move humankind in the yawning void caused by this man’s passing was marked by inchoate rage and bottomless grief, small-mindedness, rancor and recrimination – and a bottomless quest for revenge.