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Later from the north; Booth positively arrested

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This clipping includes news of Booth's arrest by way of U.S. military telegraph from Hilton Head, South Carolina, and proceedings from a meeting of the Army and Navy held in Hilton Head regarding raising funds for a monument to President Lincoln to be erected in Springfield, Illinois. Also included is a letter to the editor suggesting a meeting should be held in Savannah, Georgia, for the same purpose of raising funds for the monument.

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Georgia Historical Society newspaper collection

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Savannah Republican. "Later from the north; Booth positively arrested".

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Savannah Republican

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Savannah Republican

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April 24, 1865

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Great mass meeting in Savannah

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This clipping describes a memorial service held for President Lincoln in Savannah, Georgia. The headline suggests this was the largest meeting ever held in the city with between 4,000-5,000 participants. The stage and decor in Johnson Square is described in detail, as well as the program which included addresses, resolutions, and music. Full text of address General Littlefield's address is included in this version of the article. This article was reprinted the following day (1865-04-24) and includes addresses of other participants. The erection of a monument to President Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois is also mentioned.

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Georgia Historical Society newspaper collection

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Savannah Republican. "Great mass meeting in Savannah". Savannah Republican. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed October 29, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/280

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Savannah Republican

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Savannah Republican

Date

April 23, 1865

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Assassination of the president

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This clipping includes statements by "Major Rathbun" (Henry Reed Rathbone) and actress, Laura Keene. Rathbbone describes in detail the President's box at Ford's Theatre and Miss Keene's statement includes details about what she saw on the night of the assassination from stage area. Also included in this clipping are details about the autopsy of President Lincoln.

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Georgia Historical Society newspaper collection

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Savannah Republican. "Assassination of the president". Savannah Republican. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed October 29, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/279

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Savannah Republican

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Savannah Republican

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April 23, 1865

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Traitors at Home

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Article on page 2 of the Monday April 17, 1865 edition of the Cleveland Morning Leader newspaper describing an incident that occurred the previous Saturday afternoon when citizens gathered on Public Square at 3PM to publicly mourn the death of the President by an assassin. J.J. Husband, the architect of the county courthouse on the NW corner of Public Square at that time and likely a Democrat, was heard to say that Lincoln's death was "no great loss." The crown turned on him and ran him out town. A group then chiseled his name off the cornerstone of the courthouse, vowing that his name would never be heard or read again in the city. The article provides details of this infamous event in Cleveland history.

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Cleveland Morning Leader
Monday April 17, 1867 p.2

TRAITORS AT HOME
___
Eulogists of Murder in Cleveland – How
they were treated.
___

It seems providentially provided for that some villains are fools—so great fools that they parade their villainy before the world. Such was the case of certain traitors in Cleveland Saturday, who were crazy enough to express their joy at the murder of the President, and received therefore some very rough treatment, no more, however, than their just deserts.

The case of J. J. Husband, the well-known architect, who occupies an office and rooms over Fogg’s store, was most prominent. He was in high glee over the news, remarking to one man: “You have had your day of rejoicing, now I have mine;” to another: “This is a good day for me,” and to a third that “Lincoln’s death was a d____d small loss.” It seems that afterward he became sensible of the danger he had incurred by these remarks, for he came sneaking to the newspaper offices to deny that he had made them. We have, however, the authority of half a dozen reliable gentleman, who heard his remarks, against his unsupported assertion.

On his way back to his office he was assaulted by the crowd, but escaped from them. His words were repeated from mouth to mouth, and the indignation of the multitude knew no bounds. The crowd searched the building for him, at last finding him on the roof of the building. He was caught, thrown through the skylight into his room, and knocked and kicked down stairs. The mob then set upon him and would perhaps have pounded him to death had he not been rescued by prominent citizens. He was taken to the courthouse and locked up in a room for safekeeping. He broke out and sneaked off during the day, and, we understand, has since left town. He can never show his face again in Cleveland. His name has already been chipped from the place on the court-house where it was cut as architect.

Another man, named James Griffith, from Hamilton, Butler county, in this State, arrived in town Saturday morning, and on hearing of the news, said to a barber who was shaving him in the Weddell House barber shop, that “Lincoln was a d__d son of a b___h, and ought to have been shot long ago.” Hearing of this the mob started after him. He was taken charge of by Clark Warren and others who carried him to the jail. On the way there, however, the mob got at him and pounded him badly. He is now in jail and ought to stay there for a term of months.

Another traitor, expressing his joy on Ontario street, Saturday morning, was knocked stiff by a little fellow half his size. Other men of Southern sympathies knew enough to keep closely at home Saturday. Cleveland is an unhealthy place for rebels.

[Transcription by Deborah Taylor.]

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www.wrhs.org

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Cleveland Morning Leader. "Traitors at Home". Cleveland Morning Leader. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed October 29, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/223

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Cleveland Morning Leader

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Cleveland Morning Leader

Date

April 17, 1865

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"Glorious News. Lincoln and Seward Assassinated! Lee Defeats Grant. Andy Johnson Inaugurated President."

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Erroneous dispatch originally published in the Demopolis Herald on April 19, 1865 (shown here reprinted in the Alabama Beacon on April 21). While correctly announcing the death of Lincoln and the inauguration of Johnson as president, it reports that Secretary of State Seward was killed as well; in fact, that assassination attempt was not successful. The piece also mentions a rumor from Selma, Alabama, "that Lee and Johnston had effected a junction and whipped Grant soundly. Passengers, wounded soldiers and officers confirm this." The news was sent by the telegraph operator in Meridian, Mississippi.

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[From Demoplis Herald, 19th]
GLORIOUS NEWS.
Lincoln and Seward Assassinated!
LEE DEFEATS GRANT.
Andy Johnson Inaugurated President.

We have been favored with the following private dispatch , which we hasten to lay before our readers, with the hope that it may prove true:

DEMOPOLIS, April 18, 1865 —TO COL. GARNER:—SIR—The operator at Meridian has just telegraphed me that Memphis papers state, over the signature of Secretary Stanton, that Lincoln and Seward were both assassinated the same night at Washington City. Lincoln was shot through the head in the theatre: Seward slain while sick in bed.
Andy Johnson was inaugurated as President of the United States on the 15th.
This is said to be true beyond a doubt.
I inquired particularly from the operator as to whether from the operator as to whether there was anything more in regard to Lee’s capitulation, and he said nothing at all from Northern papers.
A gentlemen just from Selma says it is believed in Selma that Lee and Johnson had effected a junction and whipped Grant soundly. Passengers, wounded soldiers and officers confirm this.
This is given on the authority of the operator at Meridian.
JOHN W. HENLEY, Operator.




[Transcription by: Dr. Susan Corbesero, Ellis School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

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Excerpt from the Alabama Beacon, book number 33.0010. Catalog record for this title is available here.

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Alabama Beacon. ""Glorious News. Lincoln and Seward Assassinated! Lee Defeats Grant. Andy Johnson Inaugurated President."". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed October 29, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/192

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Alabama Beacon

Date

April 21, 1865

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"Frothy Grandiloquence."

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Editorial criticizing the memorial address delivered by George Bancroft on the birthday of the late President Lincoln. Originally published in The New York World; reprinted in the Montgomery Daily Mail on February 23, 1866.

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FROTHY GRANDILOQUENCE— The New York World speaking of Mr. Rancroft’s attempt to make a “swan of a goose,” and his manner of clothing the most common place feats in mantles of velvet, says:
He has occasion, for example, to say that the only books read by Mr. Lincoln in his boyhood were the Bible, Esop’s Fables, and the Pilgrim’s Progess; but he cannot tell this simple and interesting fact without bedizening and overlaying it without tawdry phrases about Asiatic, Greek, Latin, Medieval, and English literature. Here is Mr. Bancroft’s chaste way of saying it: “Of Asiatic literature he knew only the Bible: of Greek, Latin, and Medieval, no more than Esop’s Fables; of English, John Bunyan’s Pilgram’s Progress.” Did Mr. Bancroft think he was communicating any information, in telling the educated audience he addressed that if young Abraham Lincoln’s three books were classed on so extensive a scale as to include all known literatues, they would be found, on due inquiry, to belong to the divisions he assigns them?




[Transcription by: Dr. Susan Corbesero, Ellis School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

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Excerpt from the Montgomery Daily Mail, item number ADVCOL42. Catalog record for this title is available here.

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Montgomery Daily Mail. ""Frothy Grandiloquence."". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed October 29, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/236

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Montgomery Daily Mail

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February 23, 1866

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"Danger from a Broken Spine!"

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This editorial argues for a reinstitution of the writ of habeas corpus by drawing on a colorful statement made by President Lincoln in a message sent to General Joe Hooker: “I wouldn’t take any risk of being entangled up the river, like an ox half jumped over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs, front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.” The editorial describes the United States as the metaphorical ox, “stuck fast on the reconstruction thorns.” Published in the Montgomery Daily Mail on February 16, 1866.

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Danger from a Broken Spine!

We are apt to gather inspiration from words of wisdom. Congress has just published a volume of nearly a thousand pages from a Committee on the war. In it we find the following striking dispatch from the late lamented Mr. Lincoln to “Fighting Joe” Hooker, just before the latter was hooked by Lee at Chancellorsville:
“I wouldn’t,” writes the President, “take any risk of being entangled up the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs, front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.”
This striking metaphorical language of Mr. Lincoln will live in history alongside of the figure of Corked-up Butler. As it was then applied to Hooker’s army so it may be now applied to the United States. It is like a huge ox, half-jumped over a bois d’arc hedge and stuck fast on the reconstruction thorns. There sticks the old ox, with tongue hanging out and eyes rolling in agony, unable to gore forwards at John Bull or kick backward at Mexico! If the President will only twist its tail a little or build a fire under its nose, by restoring the write of habeas corpus, we think the old ox will get over.




[Transcription by: Dr. Susan Corbesero, Ellis School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

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Excerpt from the Montgomery Daily Mail, item number ADVCOL42. Catalog record for this title is available here.

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Montgomery Daily Mail. ""Danger from a Broken Spine!"". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed October 29, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/231

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Montgomery Daily Mail

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February 16, 1866

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We Mourn Our Nation's Chief!

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Small printed item commemorating Abraham Lincoln. It includes a line engraving of Abraham Lincoln and a verse recognizing that he was killed by an assassin.

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Bdses-Sm 1865, Massachusetts Historical Society

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[Unidentified author]. "We Mourn Our Nation's Chief!". [S.l.: s.n., 1865]. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed October 29, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/277

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[Unidentified author]

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[S.l.: s.n., 1865]

Date

1865

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The president's death

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This clipping includes Special Orders No. 91 by Sammel B. Lawrence, A.A.G., detailing a lockdown of the city following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Also included is General Orders No. 25 by T. H. Harris, Assistant Adjutant General, giving details of the assassination.

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Georgia Historical Society newspaper collection

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Savannah Republican. "The president's death".

Savannah Republican

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Savannah Republican

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Savannah Republican

Date

April 21, 1865

Full Title

President Lincoln assassinated

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This clipping includes an official news dispatch from Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, with information about President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and injuries to Secretary of State William Seward and Frederick Seward. Also included is news of the assassination from two separate telegraph communications.

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Georgia Historical Society newspaper collection

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Savannah Republican. "President Lincoln assassinated".

Savannah Republican

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Savannah Republican

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Savannah Republican

Date

April 19, 1865