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Excerpt from The Sins of the People: A Discourse Delivered in Trinity Church on Friday, May 14th, 1841, the Day of Fasting and Prayer Recommended by the President of the United States The occasion which brings us together this morning, is one of mournful and affecting solemnity. A severe national calamity hath befallen us, without a precedent in the annals of our country. In the myste tious providence of God, the Chief Magistrate of this Republic, within one brief month of his inauguration to office, has fallen before the universal Destroyer, and with all his clustering honors, is laid low in the dust. Another great and good man is numbered with the illustrious dead - cut off, just as he had attained, by a large majority of the sufi'rages of a free people, the highest summit of earthly ambition; and before opper tunity was afforded him, by the maturity of a single measure of government, to develope the intended poli cy of his administration, and fulfil the confident antici patiens of his friends, and disarm the apprehensions and distrust of his opponents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.