On 150th 周年記念日, Lincoln's hometown re-制定するs funeral
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) ― At Abraham Lincoln's death, 長官 of War Edwin Stanton 宣言するd, "Now he belongs to the ages," but the meticulous, 150th 周年記念日 funeral 行列 his hometown 現在のd Saturday 証明するd how profoundly the prairie city still considers the 殺害された 大統領，／社長 its own.
Thousands of people, 含むing many in period 衣装, gathered at the Old 明言する／公表する （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂, where the 16th 大統領，／社長 lay in 明言する／公表する, to 支払う／賃金 尊敬の印 to the simple, country lawyer who saved the Union and thrust the nation toward 廃止するing slavery.
階級s of 兵士s in Union blues and pallbearers, 含むing several direct 子孫s of those who …を伴ってd Lincoln's casket in 1865, retraced the 大勝する from a downtown train 駅／配置する to the old capitol square, where the 棺 was taken from a replica 霊柩車 and placed on a catafalque during 開会式s.
派手に宣伝するs 続けざまに猛撃するd out a funeral march and many of the 1,250 Civil War re-enactors strode by while a 衣装d chorus sang the "星／主役にする-Spangled 旗，新聞一面トップの大見出し／大々的に報道する," and a man in a 最高の，を越す hat with a 黒人／ボイコット 嘆く／悼むing sash 追跡するing from it ran kid gloves over the 棺 to 準備する it for a bouquet of flowers.
At the Old 明言する／公表する （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂, where Lincoln served in the 立法機関 and in 1858 riveted a 悪化するing union with his "House Divided" speech, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner opened the 週末's activities, 宣言するing that Lincoln returned to Springfield a hero for saving the nation and setting its 未来 course.
"His 遺産／遺物 has withstood the 実験（する） of 150 years, and our love for him has only grown stronger," the 共和国の／共和党の said.
The re-（法の）制定 brought onlookers from far and wide, 含むing many men donning 最高の，を越す hats and women in hoop skirts carrying parasols. Even a century-and-a-half later, some felt compelled to …に出席する.
"Lincoln is a magnet to draw all types of people together for the ありふれた good, and we need some ありふれた good in our country with all the 激変 lately," said （頭が）ひょいと動く Churchill, of Riverton, referring to the 不安 over police 狙撃s around the nation.
It was a natural place to be for Noah Vaughn, a Springfield native 法外なd in Lincoln from childhood visits to the Civil War 戦場 at Gettysburg 国家の Park and Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., where Lincoln was fatally 発射.
"Lincoln is just a big part of our lives," said Vaughn, who was at the train 駅／配置する with his wife, Megan, and daughters Klaire, 8, and Kennedy, 5. "This is about his 遺産／遺物 and 栄誉（を受ける）ing everything he meant to our country and what he means to Springfield."
The nation lost a leader, while in Springfield, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Roman カトリック教徒 Diocese of Springfield said in his 開始-儀式 invocation, 居住（者）s grieved for "not only an esteemed and 尊敬（する）・点d 政治家, but their beloved friend and neighbor."
The period pageantry was juxtaposed with 瓶／封じ込めるd-water sales, onlookers sipping gourmet coffee, and a sea of camera phones stretched above 長，率いるs to catch glimpses of the 活動／戦闘. Before 現在のing to Rauner a 儀式の coin his country 造幣局d for the occasion, Paolo Rondelli, 外交官／大使 from San Marino to the U.S., even turned his camera phone on the throng for an image to send home to the southern European country.
The 広大な／多数の／重要な Emancipator's hometown has a checkered history on race. A 1908 race 暴動 spawned the birth of the NAACP, the nation's oldest civil-権利s organization. Ninety-nine years later, on this same capitol square, another 政治家，政治屋 who had been a little-known 明言する／公表する 立法議員, Barack Obama, 発表するd his 意向 to become the nation's first 黒人／ボイコット 大統領，／社長.
Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame 公式文書，認めるd in his 基本方針演説 that on April 11, 1865, two days after the Confederate 降伏する, John Wilkes Booth made up his mind to kill Lincoln after he heard the 大統領，／社長 say 黒人／ボイコットs should have at least 限られた／立憲的な 投票（する）ing 権利s.
As much as ツバメ Luther King and others who were 殺害された during the 1960s 押し進める for equality, Burlingame said, "It is appropriate for us in the 21st Century to regard Abraham Lincoln as a 殉教者 to 黒人／ボイコット civil 権利s."
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