The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln ... together with his state papers, including his speeches, addresses, messages, letters, and proclamations, and the closing scenes connected with his life and death. By Henry J. Raymond. To which are added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by Frank B. Carpenter.

STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 153;erve it, but it may be necessary to put the foot down firmly. [Here the
tudience broke out into cheers so loud and long, that for some moments
t was impossible to hear Mr. Lincoln's voice.] And if I do my duty and
lo right, you will sustain me, will you not? [Loud cheers, and cries of
' Yes, yes, we will."] Received, as I am, by the members of a legislature,,.he majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I
crust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of State
through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer
wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage. Gentlemen, I have already spoken longer than I intended, and must beg leave
to stop here. '
The procession then moved to the Trenton House,
where the President-elect made the following speech to
the crowd outside:
I have been invited by your representatives to the Legislature to visit
this, the capital of your honored State, and in acknowledging their kind
invitation, compelled to respond to the welcome of the presiding officers of
each body, and I suppose they intended I should speak to you through
them, as they are the representatives of all of you; and if I was to speak
again here, I should only have to repeat, in a great measure, much that I
have said, which would be disgusting to mny friends around me who have
met here. I have no speech to make, but merely appear to see you and
let you look at me; and as to the latter, I think I have greatly the best of
the bargain. - [Laughter.] My friends, allow me to bid you farewell.
The party arrived at Philadelphia at 4 o'clock, and the
President-elect, proceeding immediately to the Continental Hotel, was welcomed in a brief speech from Mayor
Henry, to which he replied as follows:MB. MAYOR AND FELLOW-CITIZENS OF PHILADELPHIA:-I appear before
you to make no lengthy speech, but to thank you for this reception. Thec
reception you have given me to-night is not to me, the man, the individual, but to the man who temporarily represents, or should represent, the
majesty of the nation. [Cheers.] It is true, as your worthy Mayor has
said, that there is anxiety amongst the citizens of the United States at this
time. I deem it a happy circumstance that this dissatisfied position of our
fellow-citizens does not. point us to any thing in which they are being
injured, or about to be injured; for which reason, I have felt all the while
justified in concluding that the crisis, the panic, the anxiety of the country at this time, is artificial, If there be those who differ with me upon
this subject, they have not pointed out the substantial difficulty that
exists. I do not mean to say that an artificial panic may not do considerable harm; that it has done such I do not deny. The hope that has