Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1896 — FAREWELL TO HIS FRIENDS. [ARTICLE]

FAREWELL TO HIS FRIENDS.

Lincoln's Last Words to His Neigh' bora Before Departing. When Abraham Lincoln left Springfield Feb. 11, 1861, to assume his duties and responsibilities as President of the nation, a great crowd of people assembled at the railway station to bid him good-by. He was overcome with emotion find he proceeded to say a few words to the people who. stood closely packed around. It was the last utterance of this grand man to his neighbors and friends. He said: > “My Friends: No one, not in my tion, can appreciate the sadness I feel an this parting. To this people I owe all luut 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 how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me whicty is perhaps greater than that which has devolved upon any other man since the ■ days of Washington. He never would have succeeded except by the aid of Divine Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that 1 cannot succeed without the same divine aid which sustained him, and on the same Almighty Being I place my reliance for support; and I hope you, my friends, will all pray that I may that divine' assistance, without which'l cannot succeed, but with which success is certain. Again I bid you an affectionate farewell.”