 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 804 pages
...sublime speech in our language than this. Said he : MY FRIENDS: Noone, not in my position, can realize the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe nil that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century. Here my children were born, and... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1866 - 764 pages
...his election, alone and without an escort, to be inaugurated as President. " My friends," said he, "no one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel nt this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century.... | |
 | Zachariah Atwell Mudge - 1867 - 338 pages
...away from his neighbors he spoke these words: "My friends, no one not in my position canappreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people...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... | |
 | 1867 - 796 pages
...Shaking hands with them as he approached the train, he then stepped on the platform and spoke as follows: "My friends : No one not in my position can appreciate...parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here 1 have lived more than a quarter of a century. Here my children were born, and here one of them lies... | |
 | 1867 - 894 pages
...plain, small dwelling at Springfield, to become for the first time President of the United States. " No one, not in my position, can appreciate the sadness...parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here have I lived more than a quarter of a century ; here my children were born, and here one of them lies... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 524 pages
...of his friends at the depot in Springfield, he said, in a speech full of tenderness and pathos, — "My friends, no one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is perhaps greater than that... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1867 - 964 pages
...by the help of the same Power. " My friends," he said, when leaving his home in Illinois, in 1861, " no one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To the people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century, here my children... | |
 | 1868 - 796 pages
...hands with them as he approached the train, he then stepped on the platform and spoke as follows : " 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... | |
 | John William Draper - 1868 - 630 pages
...not sufficiently express to you Lincoln-, departure the sadness I feel at this parting. To you I eld' owe all that I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century; here my children were born, here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me perhaps... | |
 | William Cunningham Gray - 1868 - 214 pages
...to his home and friends, whom he was never again to visit while living. Addressing them, he said : " My friends, no one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I *The question whether Mr. Lincoln was truly a converted man at this time has given rise to difference... | |
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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... 
