Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1917 — Cromwell's Last Words. [ARTICLE]

Cromwell's Last Words.

Of the great Oliver, who brought Charles I to the scaffold, Thomas Carlyle has written a notable book, and in the fine description of the death scene Cromwell’s last words are recorded. When, being restless, he was offered something to drink, he said: “It is not my design to drink or sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.”