(LINCOLN ABRAHAM) Kenyon Archibald Manuscript sermon on the

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(LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) Kenyon, Archibald. Manuscript sermon on the Lincoln assassination. [63] manuscript pages. 8vo, contemporary polished green calf, worn; front hinge split, a few leaves torn. Vp, 1854-65

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This volume of sermons is signed "A. Kenyon", and was most likely by the Rev. Archibald Kenyon, an outspoken anti-slavery Baptist minister and prolific hymn writer. He was in Chicago when this volume was started in 1854. By 1865, he had moved on to another congregation, possibly Peoria. In the middle of this volume he notes "The following sermon was preached just after the death of Mr. Lincoln." In the 32-page sermon which follows, he calls the assassination "an event without parallel in the world history" and places blame for the calamity: "Slavery has murdered Abraham Lincoln," offering background to the "slave-law of 1850." See Kenyon's biography in Burrage's Baptist Hymn Writers, page 368.