DELIVERED AT ACTON, MASS., APRIL 16TH, 1865. REPEATED IN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, WEST ACTON, JUNE 1ST, 1865, BY REV. GEO. W. COLMAN, PASTOR CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, ACTON. BOSTON: S. CHISM,-FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, 1865. ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT. A DISCOURSE ON THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE DELIVERED AT ACTON, MASS., APRIL 16TH, 1865. REPEATED IN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, WEST ACTON, JUNE 1ST, 1865. BY REV. GEO. W. COLMAN, PASTOR CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, ACTON. BOSTON: S. CHISM, FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, No. 112 CONGRESS STREET., 1865. NOTE. This discourse has been but slightly modified since its first delivery. What was then immediate and present is now past. The change of tense and the poem of Wm. Cullen Bryant are all that seemed necessary to adapt it to this day of National Humiliation and Prayer appointed by President Andrew John son. |