Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1897 — Disraeli on Lincoln. [ARTICLE]

Disraeli on Lincoln.

“There is,” said Benjamin Disraeli, the famous British statesman and premier of England, in speaking of the assassination of Lincoln, “in the character of the victim, and even in the accessories of his last moments, something so homely and innocent that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and

the ceremonial of touches the hearts of nations and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind.”