 | Literature - 1877 - 226 pages
...appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have lived for more than a quarter of a century; here my children were born, and here one of them lies buried. A duty devolves upon me, which is perhaps greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 572 pages
...fellow-citizens, whom he addressed as follows: "Mr FRIENDS — No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people...here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see yon again. A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1861 - 560 pages
...appreciate the Badness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have livei more than a quarter of a century ; here my children...were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know cot how soon I shall see you again. A duty derolyes upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 554 pages
...fellow-citizens, whom he addressed as follows: "Mi FRIENDS — No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people...here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved... | |
 | Frank Moore - American literature - 1862 - 808 pages
...with a number of friends, he spoke as follows : MY FRIENDS: No one, not in my position, can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people...here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see yon again. A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...fellow-citizens at Springfield in these grave words : " MY FRIENDS : No one not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people...here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater than that which has devolved... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1862 - 830 pages
...with a number of friends, he spoke as follows : MY FBIENDS: No one, not in my position, can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people...here my children were born, and here one of them lies iJuried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is, perhaps, greater... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 796 pages
...сал appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people I owe all that I am. Here 1 ha« lived more than a quarter of a century. Here my children...here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall s« you again. A duty devolves upon me which is perhaps greater than that which lias devolved... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - African Americans - 1864 - 546 pages
...his fellow-citizens at the railroad depot : "My friends! No one, not in my position, can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people...here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is perhaps greater than that which has devolved... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Campaign literature, 1864 - 1864 - 96 pages
....Lincoln thus addressed the multitude before his departure: — " My friends, no one can appreciate the sadness I feel at this parting. To this people...here one of them lies buried. I know not how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me which is perhaps greater than that which has devolved... | |
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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... 
