{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3626", "width": "2151", "jp2-path": "resolutionsondea00hist_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class.\\nBook", "height": "3524", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "resolutionsondea00hist_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3524", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "resolutionsondea00hist_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3524", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "resolutionsondea00hist_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "f\\nHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA.\\nResoluTions ov^ ih-i. aea Th \u00c2\u00a9I Lwicoln.\\nAt a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Historical Society of\\nPennsylvania held on Monday evening, April 24, 1865, the following Pre-\\namble and Resolutions were presented and read by Professor CHARLES\\nD. CLEVELAND, and unanimously adopted. It wivs then moved that a\\nSpecial Meeting of the Society be called on Thursday, the 27th, to consider\\nthe same. On that evening, EDMUND A. SOUDER, Esq., was called to the\\nChair, when the Preamble and Resolutions were again read, and were unani-\\nmously adopted by the Society.\\nWhereas, We recognize in tlie recent calamity that has fallen upon\\nour Republic, in the violent death of our President, an event that not\\nonly calls forth a personal grief from every loyal heart, but rises above\\nindividual sorrow, and forms a crisis in our national life an epoch in our\\nnational history. Therefore,\\nI. Resolved, That it is peculiarly the duty of the Historical Society\\nPennsylvania to inquire into the historic meaning of the sad occurrer\\nthat has thus suddenly overwhelmed us, to read in it, as well as may\\nthrough tears, the lessons of the past of which it is the culmination, and\\nthe monitions for the future to which it sternly and undoubtedly points.\\nII. Resolved^ That in the assassination of our beloved Chief Magistrate,\\nour sorrow for the bereavement is as intense as our horror at the crime.\\nA life has been lost which, by a blending of mental and moral qualities in\\na union of rare completeness, had a hold upon the heart of every loyal\\ncitizen, and made the tie that bound him to his government no less a per-\\nsonal than a civic attachment and gratefully therefore do we bear our\\nearnest testimony to the consummate ability, the enduring faithfulness,\\nthe political sagacity, the far-seeing wisdom, the lofty patriotism, the\\nenlarged humanity, the proverbial honesty, and the ever-flowing goodness\\nwhich marked the character, through his whole term of office, of our late\\nhonored and loved President.\\nr", "height": "3524", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "resolutionsondea00hist_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "i\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bb\\nIII. Re^olval, That, while with deep grief we mourn the loss of him\\nwho on the 22d of February, 1861, when he raised the national flag over\\nthe State House iu which our Constitution was framed, declared, with\\nwhat now seems prophetic significancy, that he would rather be assassin-\\nated upon the spot than fail to maintain the great principles of Constitu-\\ntional Liberty; and who, in the four years of his able and momentous\\nadministration, so nobly and firmly acted up to that declaration, showing\\nat all times a heart beating in full sympathy with the objects of our Con-\\nstitution as declared in its preamble, to form a more perfect union, and\\nto secure the blessings of liberty, and crowding into that brief period\\nevents and principles of deeper historic interest and of wider and farther\\nreaching influence than were ever before, in so short a time, recorded in\\nhistory. it is peculiarly fitting in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to\\ndeclare it to be their deepest conviction tbat, under God, it was the won-\\nderfully attempered prudence and energy, justice and mercy, caution and\\ndecision, breadth of view and strength of purpose of Abraham Lincoln\\nthat led us triumphantly through the perils of this atrocious rebellion.\\nlY. Resolved^ That, by his wise, persistent, and finally successful efi orts\\nin crushing the rebellion, and thus breaking down forever the vilest and\\nmost tyrannical oligarchy the sun ever shone upon, Abraham Lincoln\\nhas made American citizenship mean protection to American citi-\\nzens IN EVERY PORTION OF THE REPUBLIC; and that, by his Proclama-\\ntion of the 1st of January, 1863, giving immediate liberty to millions long\\nheld in bondage, and by his large-hearted humanity, everywhere con-\\nspicuous, he has earned for himself the richest of all blessings the\\nblessings of those who were ready to perish; and has thus engraved his\\nname upon the page of history, for all time to come, as THE friend\\nOF man.\\nV. Resolved^ That, when we view the parricide s crime, which has thus\\nwhelmed our nation in mourning, as the result of a cause the natural\\noutgrowth of some principle of action History and its Philosophy utter\\nno doubtful teachings they say, as distinctly as voices from the past can\\nsay, that the murderous hand which took the life of the Head of our\\nRepublic is but the symbol of that stealthy, deadly blow which must\\nalways, sooner or later, be dealt to any Republic, when it either cares not\\nor dares not to cast out from its midst elements that give the lie to the\\nsimplest and most fundamental conditions of political liberty; and that\\nour land, as a whole, must either be a unity of homogeneous principles in\\nits parts, or else be dashed into a shapeless wreck by the clashing currents\\nwithin it.", "height": "3524", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "resolutionsondea00hist_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "VI. Resolved^ That, in the long catalogue of crimes committed by the\\nslave-power against liberty and humanity for the last fifty years crimes\\ntoo numerous to recount, and many of them too foul to particularize,\\nconsummated in the rebellion, and all the atrocious deeds committed in it,\\nand culminating in the murderous assault upon our Secretary of State and\\nthe Assistant Secretary, and in that crowning crime of horror, stealthily\\ntaking the life of our Chief Magistrate, this same slave-power has shown\\nitself to the world in its true character in acts of malignity and wickadness\\nunparalleled on the page of history and lias shown to us the utter incom-\\npatibility of its existence with our own national life.\\nVII. Resolved, That, as by tlie avowed declarations of the slaveholders\\nthemselves, wbo quoted the words of the Saviour, the stone which the\\nbuilders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner, and with,\\nbold but characteristic blasphemy applied these sacred, heaven-descended\\nwords to the foulest of crimes, intending to make it the corner-stone\\nof a new government, slavery was the cause and origin of the rebellion;\\nand to extend it indefinitely, the purpose, by their own avowal, of those\\nwho aimed to destroy our national life; so now it conclusively follows and\\nshould everywhere be held, that there can be no true patriotism without\\nhostility to that sum of all villanies, and a fixed determination that it\\nshall never be the cause of another rebellion; and no longer, in any way\\nor shape, curse our land.\\nVIII. Resolved, That, while we tender to the wife and children of the\\nillustrious deceased our sincerest sympathies in this their irreparable loss,\\nand fervently pray that they may be sustained under it by Him who alike\\ngives and takes away, we at the same time rejoice that he has bequeathed\\nto them so rich and precious a legacy of public and private virtues, which\\nthey will ever fondly cherish, and which will grow brighter and brighter\\nas time rolls on.\\nIX. Resolved, That, to our honored Secretary of State, Hon. William\\nH. Seward, who has conducted our foreign relations with such signal\\nability and wisdom in a period of unprecedented difficulty; and to his able\\nand courteous Assistant Secretary, Hon. Frederick W. Seward, both\\nprostrated by the dagger and bludgeon of the assassin, we extend our\\ndeepest sympathies, fervently praying that a kind Providence may so\\nrestore them to health and strength, that tliey may be able again to labor\\nfor their country in years to come with the same ability as they have in\\nyears past.", "height": "3524", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "resolutionsondea00hist_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "t\\nX. Resolved, That, to our new President, Andrew Johnson, thus\\nsuddenly called to his high station, we pledge our earnest and cordial\\nsupport with fervent prayers that he may be guided in all his varied and\\nresponsible duties by Infinite Wisdom rejoicing that, in the patriotism and\\nfirmness of his past life, as well as in his recent public declarations that\\ntreason is the highest of all crimes, we have the fullest assurance that,\\nwhile he will show mercy to their misguided and deluded followers, he will\\nvisit the guilty authors and leaders of the rebellion, however numerous\\nthey may be, with the punishment they so richly deserve; so that thus\\npeace, tranquillity and unity may be restored to every part of our land,\\nand that thus a warning may be left to traitors for all coming time.\\nOn motion of Mr. Pliny Earle Chase, seconded by Mr, John A.\\nMcAllister, it was resolved that these Resolutions, signed by the officers of\\nthe Society, be published in three of our newspapers, and that copies, engrossed\\nor printed, be sent to the Family of the deceased to the President of the United\\nStates and to the Secretary of State, requesting that they be deposited in the\\narchives of the United States, in perpetuation of the sense of the Society upon\\nour great national bereavement.\\nJoseph R. Ingersoll,\\nPresident.\\nSamuel L. Smedley,\\nRecording Secretary.", "height": "3524", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "resolutionsondea00hist_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3524", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "resolutionsondea00hist_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3524", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "resolutionsondea00hist_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3524", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "resolutionsondea00hist_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "1\\n.V\\\\^. k i\\nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\nI\\n012 025 961 1\\ni)?\u00c2\u00aboHa", "height": "3524", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "resolutionsondea00hist_0012.jp2"}}