Posted on 04/12/2025 7:12:13 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, April 11.
The executive departments, including the President's mansion, were again. illuminated to-night and adorned with transparencies and national flags, as were also many places of business and private dwellings. Bonfires blazed in many parts of the city and rockets were fired. Thousands of persons of both sexes repaired to the Executive mansion, and after several airs had been played by the band, the President, in response to the numerous calls, appeared at an upper window. The cheering with which he was greeted having ceased, he spoke as follows:
THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH.
We meet this evening not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart The evacuation of Petersburgh and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hopes of a righteous and speedy peace, whose, joyous expression cannot be restrained. In the midst of this however, He from whom all blessings flow must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated. Nor must those whose harder part gives us the cause of rejoicing be overlooked. Their honors must not be parceled out with others. I myself was near the front, and had the high pleasure of transmitting much of the good news to you. But no part of the honor for plan or execution is mine. To Gen. GRANT, his skillful officers and brave men. all belongs. The gallant navy stood ready, but was not in reach to take active part By these recent successes the reinauguration of the national authority -- reconstruction, which has had a large share of thought from the first -- is pressed much more closely upon our attention. It is fraught with great difficulty. Unlike a war between independent nations, there is no authorized organ for us to treat with.
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Thanks. In reading Lincoln’s speech you realize how different the history of our country would have been if Lincoln had lived.
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