Then the President remarked to a friend, “It is more than many can often say, that in doing right one has made two people happy in one day. Speed, die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I have always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow.”
LINCOLN WISHED TO SEE RICHMOND.
The President remarked to Admiral David D. Porter, while on board the flagship Malvern, on the James River, in front of Richmond, the day the city surrendered:
“Thank God that I have lived to see this!
“It seems to me that I have been dreaming a horrid dream for four years, and now the nightmare is gone.