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.
Offensarum inimicitiarumque minime memor executorve.—Suetonius, Vespasianus, Cap. XIV.
EULOGY
In the universe of God there are no accidents. From the fall of a sparrow to the fall of an empire or the sweep of a planet, all is according to Divine Providence, whose laws are everlasting. No accident gave to his country the patriot we now honor. No accident snatched this patriot, so suddenly and so cruelly, from his sublime duties. Death is as little an accident as life. Never, perhaps, in history has this Providence been more conspicuous than in that recent procession of events, where the final triumph is wrapped in the gloom of tragedy. It is our present duty to find the moral of the stupendous drama.