EULOGY ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BEFORE THE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES OF THE CITY
OF BOSTON, JUNE 1, 1865.
Think nothing of me, take no thought for the political fate of
any man whomsoever, but come back to the truths that are in the
Declaration of Independence. You may do anything with me you
choose, if you will but heed these sacred principles. You may
not only defeat me for the Senate, _but you may take me and put
me to death_.--ABRAHAM LINCOLN: _Crosby’s Life of Lincoln_, p.
33.
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They [colored people having the ballot] would probably help,
in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of Liberty in
the family of Freedom.--IBID., _Letter to Michael Hahn, of
Louisiana, March 13, 1864_: _McPherson’s Political History of
the United States during Reconstruction_, p. 20, note.
Omnia incrementa sua sibi debuit, vir novitatis
nobilissimæ.--VELLEIUS PATERCULUS, _Historia_, Lib. II. cap.
34, § 3.
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Offensarum inimicitiarumque minime memor
executorve.--SUETONIUS, _Vespasianus_, Cap. XIV.