For three days every theatre, school, court, bank, shop, and mill was closed.
And with muttered curses men looked Southward.
Across Broadway the cortège passed under a huge transparency on which appeared the words:
“A Nation bowed in grief
Will rise in might to exterminate
The leaders of this accursed Rebellion.”
Farther along swung the black-draped banner:
“Justice to Traitors
is
Mercy to the People.”