 | John Gilmary Shea - 1865 - 306 pages
...and neighbors in these words, which, read at the present time, have indeed a mournful interest : " MY FRIENDS : No one not in my position can appreciate...of a century; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is,... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - 1865 - 183 pages
...by which he was sustained in the very difficult and trying position to which he was called : — " My friends, no one not in my position can appreciate...of a century ; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 840 pages
...large -concourse of his friends and neighbors, whom he bade farewell in the following words : — Mr FRIENDS : — No one not in my position can appreciate...of a century ; here my children were born, and here one of them lies huried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is,... | |
 | Troy (N.Y.). Citizens - 1865 - 404 pages
...large concourse of his fellow citizens had assembled to bid him farewell. ' My friends,' he said, ' no one not in my position can appreciate the sadness...of a century ; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soou I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is,... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - 1865 - 285 pages
...When he left Springfield in 1861 to assume the Presidency, his farewell words were as follows : " ' MY FRIENDS : — No one not in my position can appreciate...Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century ; tere my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 848 pages
...a large concourse of his friends and neighbors, whom he bade farewell in the following words : — MY FRIENDS : — No one not in my position can appreciate...that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a centnry ; here ray children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 866 pages
...a large concourse of his friends and neighbors, whom he bade farewell in the following words : — MY FRIENDS : — No one not in my position can appreciate...I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a qnarter of a century ; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not how... | |
 | William R. Williams, Henry Ward Beecher, Henry Whitney Bellows, Stephen Higginson Tyng, Charles Seymour Robinson, William Ives Budington, John McClintock, Abram Newkirk Littlejohn, Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, Joseph Parrish Thompson, James Eells, Elbert Stothoff Porter, Ebenezer Platt Rogers, Samuel Dickinson Burchard, Joel Edson Rockwell, Samuel Thayer Spear, Robert Lowry, Albert Sanford Hunt, William Adams, George Bancroft, Henry J. Fox, Matthew Simpson, Henry Boynton Smith - 1865 - 436 pages
...years ago Abraham Lincoln left his western home. As he left it, he said to his friends and neighbors, " My friends, no one not in my position can appreciate...people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than one-quarter of a century. Here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not... | |
 | William R. Williams, Henry Ward Beecher, Henry Whitney Bellows, Stephen Higginson Tyng, Charles Seymour Robinson, William Ives Budington, John McClintock, Abram Newkirk Littlejohn, Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, Joseph Parrish Thompson, James Eells, Elbert Stothoff Porter, Ebenezer Platt Rogers, Samuel Dickinson Burchard, Joel Edson Rockwell, Samuel Thayer Spear, Robert Lowry, Albert Sanford Hunt, William Adams, George Bancroft, Henry J. Fox, Matthew Simpson, Henry Boynton Smith - 1865 - 438 pages
...years ago Abraham Lincoln left his western home. As he left it, he said to his friends and neighbors, " My friends, no one not in my position can appreciate...parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have li\red more than one-quarter of a century. Here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried.... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - 1865 - 642 pages
...with surety. At the Springfield depot he thus bade farewell to his neighbors : " Mv KKIF.M is : — No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness...parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I hare lived more than a quarter of a oentury ; here my children were born, and here one of them liea... | |
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MY FRIENDS : No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not... 
