With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
How did the public respond to Lincoln’s assassination?
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People were in grief and joy depending on their political view. "Lincoln's mourners wanted to put forward a universal grief, .... but the fact that people in their own midst were also celebrating Lincoln's assassination was galling and infuriating to them." In April 1865, an anti-Lincoln man was tarred and feathered in Swampscott, Massachusetts.