Identifier: abrahamlincolnco02ulri (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and constitutional government
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Ulrich, Bartow A. (Bartow Adolphus), 1840- Wood, Erwin Elisha, 1848- (from old catalog) comp
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Constitutions Political science
Publisher: (Chicago) Chicago legal news
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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traying hisfinally well developed proportions. He also should strive to per-petuate the spiritual and intellectual characteristics, and in this casethe benevolent appearance of his subject, as well as the physical rep-resentation. This is what Barnard has utterly failed to accomplishin his statue of Abraham Lincoln. DAD RICHARDS, OF HAZARD, KY., WHO SAW LINCOLN SHOTBy W. A. Stanlill An eyewitness to the greatest murder in modern history—theassassination of President Lincoln—lives in the mountain town ofHazard, Ky. He is D. C. Richards, known to his mountain friends as Dad, formany years a newspaper correspondent in Knoxville, Tenn., and nowan accountant, who is, as he expresses it, 70 years young. When he was 15 years old his father, at that time manager of alarge rolling mills company in Pennsylvania, decided to take himto Washington. His father had taken an active interest in politics 1(.J ~ vrff !i lip!1 snhMhniLiuaiaiii^*—jji^Jiiuiuiitf!uiiiim!MmitnHnm!HiHfn>jLft ii piwiI
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THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, AT FORDS THEATREWASHINGTON, APRIL 14, 1865 WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN and had stumped the iron and coal districts of Pennsylvania forPresident Lincoln in his second race, and was a great admirer of thePresident. He told his son that he wanted him to see AbrahamLincoln and that he could arrange for him to shake hands with thePresident. The following is Mr. Richards story of what happened: On the morning of the 14th day of April, 1865, father and Ientered the city of Washington. There was much excitement, menthrowing up their hats, bands playing, soldiers marching, so that itwas impossible to reach the ears of the proper officials to arrange tosee the President on that day. The Civil War was just ended and the people of Washington wereparading the streets with flags and buntings, and every building wasdecorated with stars and stripes. The President was busy in con-sultation with his Cabinet and officials, and we found that it wasutterly impossible to

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