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Orange Jacobs: “Unbelief and astonishment were succeeded by wordless sorrow, and this was mingled with emotions of patriotic vengeance.”

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Unbelief and astonishment were succeeded by wordless sorrow, and this was mingled with emotions of patriotic vengeance.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

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Jacobs captures the emotional turmoil of the nation following the shocking news of Garfield's assassination.

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