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:'''How accurately will future generations know the immense volume of grief and sorrow which has rolled over the land? Will those who come after us ever be able to understand the extent of our loss?''' <font color="gray">Is there anything in the first century of our history—even the death of the great Lincoln—which can be used as a parallel? </font> | :'''How accurately will future generations know the immense volume of grief and sorrow which has rolled over the land? Will those who come after us ever be able to understand the extent of our loss?''' <font color="gray">Is there anything in the first century of our history—even the death of the great Lincoln—which can be used as a parallel? </font> | ||
− | :<font color="gray">Perhaps a careful reading of the daily papers of the present. period may give some future antiquarian a fine idea of the feelings of the nation during the past summer.</font> '''But these journals are so large, so full of detail, that we imagine the coming American will never find time to read the record.''' <font color="gray">He must depend on a brief statement, meagerly compiled by | + | :<font color="gray">Perhaps a careful reading of the daily papers of the present. period may give some future antiquarian a fine idea of the feelings of the nation during the past summer.</font> '''But these journals are so large, so full of detail, that we imagine the coming American will never find time to read the record.''' <font color="gray">He must depend on a brief statement, meagerly compiled by sonic dry and tedious historian. </font> |
:::<font color="gray">—The Bloomington Daily Pantagraph </font> | :::<font color="gray">—The Bloomington Daily Pantagraph </font> |