Details in regard to
the funeral, which takes place on the 19th, occupied general attention and
little else than preliminary arrangements and conversation was done at the
Cabinet-meeting. From every part of the country comes lamentation. Every house,
almost, has some drapery, especially the homes of the poor. Profuse exhibition
is displayed on the public buildings and the dwellings of the wealthy, but the
little black ribbon or strip of black cloth from the hovel of the poor negro or
the impoverished white is more touching.
I have tried to
write something consecutively since the horrid transactions of Friday night,
but I have no heart for it, and the jottings down are mere mementos of a
period, which I will try to fill up when more composed, and I have leisure or
time for the task.
Sad and painful,
wearied and irksome, the few preceding incoherent pages have been written for
future use, for the incidents are fresh in my mind and may pass away with me
but cannot ever be by me forgotten.
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