And

blance to his father, answered: "A woodchopper." "O, indeed!" was the rather sneering answer. for a day or two the high-born lad turned the coldshoulder to the " new boy." Very soon the American lad's prestige became known to all the school, and he found that he had made himself ridiculous.

LAST PUBLIC UTTERANCE.

MR. LINCOLN's last public utterance was addressed to Schuyler Colfax, April 14, 1865: "I want you to take a message from me to the miners whom you visit. Tell the miners for me that I shall promote their interests to the utmost of my ability, because their prosperity is the prosperity of the Nation; and we shall prove, in a very few years, that we are indeed the treasury of the world."

MY CAPTAIN.

O CAPTAIN! my captain! our fearful trip is done;

The ship has weathered every rock, the prize we sought is

won;

The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:

But, O heart! heart! heart!

Leave you not the little spot,

Where on the deck my captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

O captain! my captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up-for you the flag is flung-for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths-for you the shores
a-crowding;

For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning:

O captain! dear father;

This arm I push beneath you;

It is some dream that on the deck
You've fallen cold and dead.

My captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
But the ship, the ship is anchored safe, its voyage closed

and done;

From fearful trip, the victor ship comes in with object won. Exult, O shore, and ring, O bells!

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But I, with silent tread,

Walk the spot my captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

-WALT WHITMAN, on the Death of Lincoln.

WORDS OF LINCOLN.

"My early history is perfectly characterized by a single line of Gray's Elegy:

"The short and simple annals of the poor.""

"Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between them and the Almighty."

X X

"I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this Nation should be on the Lord's side."

"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for that day."

"The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.”

"Come what will, I will keep my faith with friena and foe."

"I do not impugn the motives of any one opposed to me."

"It is no pleasure to me to triumph over any one."

"I shall do my utmost, that whoever is to hold the helm for the next voyage shall start with the best possible chance to save the ship."

"I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom."

"God must like common people, or he would not have made so many of them."

"Of the people, when they rise in mass in behalf of the Union and the liberties of their country, truly may it be said: The gates of hell can not prevail against them.""

aid me, I must fail; but if the same Omniscient Mind

shall be with and

shall guide and support

and Almighty Arm
me, I shall not fail; I shall succeed."

"I authorize no bargains [for the Presidency], and will be bound by none."

"The reasonable man has long since agreed that intemperance is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all evils among mankind."

"I am indeed very grateful to the brave men who have been struggling with the enemy in the field."

"For thirty years I have been a temperance man, and I am too old to change."

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"That we here highly resolve that Nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

"I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you [the people], and not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you, is the question, Shall the Union and shall the liberties of the country be preserved to the latest generation ?"

X X

"If all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them full justice for their conduct during the war. God bless the women of America!"

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the Nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan-to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."