Let us build with reverent hands to the type of this simple, but sublime life, in which all types are honored.
—Henry W. Grady
Lincoln was the purest, the most generous, the most magnanimous of men.
—General W. T. Sherman
His chief object, the ideal to which his whole soul was devoted, was the preservation of the Union.
—Alexander H. Stephens
O honest face, which all men knew!
O tender heart, but known to few!
—R. H. Stoddard
Who can be what he was to the people,
What he was to the State?
Shall the ages bring us another
As good and as great?
—Phoebe Cary