 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...  The Literary World - Page 1491877Full view - About this book
 | Rufus Spaulding Cushman - 1865 - 52 pages
...was a Christian man. Listen to these words of his, as he left his home for Washington : My Friends : No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness...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... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 pages
...departure, he addressed in words replete with the pathos of every true manly nature : " MY FRIENDS : — No one, not in my position, can appreciate the sadness...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... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...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 the sadness...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...concourse of his friends and neighbors, whom he bade farewell in the following words : — MY FRIENDS : — No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness...this people I owe all 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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...depot, on the occasion of his departure, whom, with deep emotion, he addressed as follows : MY FRIENDS : No one, not in my position, can appreciate the sadness...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - Rare books - 1865 - 438 pages
...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 the sadness...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 - Illinois - 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1865 - 78 pages
...never faltered in defending." TO his Springfield Friends on setting out for Washington. MY FRIENDS: No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all I am. Here I have lived more than a quarter of a century ; here my children were born, and here one... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - 1865 - 234 pages
...cars started ho thus addressed a few farewell words to his neighbors and friends: — "My FBIENDS, — No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe ull that I am. Ilcre I have lived more than a quarter of a century. Here my children were born, and... | |
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