Personal Recollections of Mr. Lincoln (Classic Reprint)

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When the vice-president had been duly sworn into office, the procession marched onward, the President heading it, es cotted by those appointed to introduce him to the people. Fol lowing came Chief Justice Chase, who also, according to cus tom, was to administer the oath of office. Then, regardless of order or precedence, followed Senators, Congressmen, and afew invited guests When we had crossed the rotunda, the Presi dent advanced upon the platform amid enthusiastic applause. A scene indeed new to us, and momentous to America, was then before us.

At the horizon of that applauding multitude were arrayed those battalions which Grant had summoned for the campaign about to open, and among them several negro companies. Be tween these lines of men and the columns which upheld the platform, the eye met a compact mass, the aspect of which was rough and energetic; in its midst stood a multitude of negroes but yesterday freed, and for the first time admitted to take part in a national solemnity.

When the hurrahs had ceased, Mr. Lincoln began read ing his address, and hardly had he read its first sentence, when none could question its immense success.

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