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ROBERT C. WINTHROP.

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IS early term in Congress was while I was Speaker of the House of Representatives. Representatives. Thirty-four years have elapsed since that Congress assembled, but I recall vividly the impressions I then formed, both as to his ability and his amiability. We were old Whigs together, and agreed entirely on all questions of public interest. I could not always concur in the policy of the party which made him President, but I never lost my personal regard for him. For shrewdness, sagacity and keen, practical sense, he has had no superior in our day and generation. His patience, perseverance, imperturbable good-nature and devoted patriotism, during the trying times of the civil war, were of inestimable value to the Union cause. Meantime, the forbearing and conciliatory spirit, which he manifested so signally in the last months of his presidency, rendered his death-quite apart from the abhorrent and atrocious manner in which it occurred an inexpressible shock, even to those who had differed from his earlier views. His life, even at the moment it was taken away, as I said publicly at the time, was the most important and precious life in our whole land. I heartily wish success to the memorials of a career associated so prominently with the greatest event of our age, and which must ever have so exalted a place in American history.

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SPEECH AT PITTSBURGH.

The condition of the country, fellow-citizens, is an extraordinary one and fills the mind of every patriot with anxiety and solicitude. My attention is to give this subject all the consideration which I possibly can before I speak fully and definitely in regard to it, so that, when I do speak, I may be as nearly right as possible, and when I do speak, fellow-citizens, I hope to say nothing in opposition to the spirit of the constitution, contrary to the integrity of the Union, or which will in any way prove inimical to the liberties of the people or to the peace of the whole country. And, furthermore, when the time. arrives for me to speak on this great subject, I hope to say nothing which will disappoint the reasonable expectations of any man, or disappoint the people generally throughout the country, especially if their expectations have been based upon anything which I may have heretofore said.

WILLIAM F. WARREN.

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"THEY

HEY who believe and clothe not their faith with injustice, they shall enjoy security, and they are rightly directed. And this is our argument wherewith we furnished Abraham that he might make use of it against his people."-The Koran, Sura VI.

William F. Warren.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 1880.

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SPEECH AT CLEVELAND, OHIO.

It is with you, the people, to advance the great cause of the Union and the Constitution, and not with any one man. It rests with you, alone. This fact is strongly impressed on my mind at present. In a community like this, whose appearance testifies to their intelligence, I am convinced that the cause of liberty and the Union can never be in danger.

H. W. BELLOWS.

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OR singleness and simplicity of purpose, vigor of intellect, and sweetness of nature; for a humor matched with a pathos, that won the popular sympathy and was most rare and wise; for a homely, hearty Americanism, that represented our new world and young nation; for a profound and passionate love of his country; for undeviating rectitude and an unworldliness. which was not want of ability to lead other men, or any lack of skill to make his own way-Lincoln was the ideal of a President, when the nation most wanted the right man in the right place.

BROOKLYN, 1880.

Neury W. Bellows

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