Excerpt from Funeral Address on the Death of Abraham Lincoln: Delivered in the Church of the Covenant, April 19, 1865

I have written out as perfectly as my memory would enable me, the hastily prepared address, delivered from a few meagre notes, which you received so kindly, and have requested for publication. Conscious as I am that it is your pro found interest in the subject which has led to your high estimate of my most imperfect presentation of it, I yet too completely share the universal desire of the people to render honor to the memory of our dear departed President, to feel at liberty to withhold the address from publication.

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