The popular frenzy which developed itself in mobs in many sections of our country, on the reception of the tidings of Lincoln's death, is but the logical sequence of the assassin's stroke at civil liberty and popular rights.
Jacobs connects the public's violent reaction to Lincoln's assassination with the broader implications for civil liberties and rights.
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