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found this bit of choice meanness while reading this morning (in When the Bells Tolled for Lincoln by Carolyn L. Harrell:
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a bonus tidbit from the Chicago Tribune, April 17, 1865
General Ord had issued an order for Richmond citizens to pray for President Lincoln... [A] Richmond minister found only five or six persons in the congregation who would gather for the required memorial service. Hattie Blenheim, one of the congregants, later wrote that when the minster spoke from the pulpit, he said:not the least of which is disturbing about this is how impossible it is to imagine a government that would mandate such a service on a defeated people in the first place. yuck.My friends, we have been ordered to meet here by those in authority for humiliation and prayer on account of the death of Lincoln. Having met, we will now be dismissed with the doxology: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow!"
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a bonus tidbit from the Chicago Tribune, April 17, 1865
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p.s. in defense of the Tribune tidbit, the men weren't killed ~ just tortured (the difference between "hung" and "hanged"). not that it makes it any better, really.
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While anyone's death is a tragedy, that is priceless!
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~ in a morbid little way.
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though i warn you, i am seriously considering using it as an opening for a novel.
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Oh, and I never knew the difference between hung and hanged! Thanks for the brain-expanding.
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these last six years or so, i am convinced we've turned the clock back 140 years on constitutional rights.
i swear washington's rolled right out of his teeth in his grave. about ten times over.
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