At the time of his death Mr. Livermore was fifty-six years of age, which was also the age of President Lincoln, for whom he entertained unbounded regard, deepening into affectionate reverence. By the bedside, in his last illness, hung a copy of the immortal Proclamation, signed by its author in his own autograph. There also within reach were good books, which he enjoyed as long as he could enjoy anything, and even after he began to lose hold of life.
The death of such a man must make many sad. To family, friends, and neighbors it will be irreparable. To the whole community it is a calamity. There is more than one mourner who will repeat, from the bottom of his heart, the words of the great poet:—
“Farewell, too little and too lately known,
Whom I began to think and call my own!”[240]
THE NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE NATIONAL FAITH: GUARANTIES FOR THE NATIONAL FREEDMAN AND THE NATIONAL CREDITOR.
Speech at the Republican State Convention, in Worcester, Massachusetts, September 14, 1865. With Appendix.
Nor was civil society established merely for the sake of living, but rather for the sake of living well.—Aristotle, Politics, tr. Taylor, Book III. Ch. 9.