Colonel Lyon’s Letters.
April 17, 1865.—I suppose there is little or no doubt of my election. I was never so surprised in my life, for I never had the least expectation of being elected. I shall come home as early as I can honorably and properly do so, certainly by September and probably before, to make the necessary arrangements and preparations for my new duties. You must not feel too hard towards those of my best friends who opposed me. They had an undoubted right to do so.
We have just heard the shocking tidings of President Lincoln’s assassination. This is an awful thing for the country. It makes my heart bleed.
