sands of our fellow-citizens may share with us the interest

and profit of hearing you.

We are, with profound esteem, yours,

HORACE GREELEY,
JOHN JAY,

WM. CURTIS NOYES,
JAMES HUMPHREY,
WM. M. EVARTS,
EDGAR KETCHUM,
R. H. MCCURDY,
(Rev.) E. H. CHAPIN,
CHARLES W. ELLIOTT,
T. B. STILLMAN,
BENJ. F. MANIERRE,
(Rev.)A. H. BURLINGHAM,
R. HILDRETH,
DEXTER FAIRBANK,
SYDNEY H. GAY,

(Rev.) T. Bourne,

C. A. DANA,

GEO. W. CURTIS,

A. W. MORGAN,

E. W. CHESTER,

(Prof.) BENJ.N. MARTIN,
WM. ALLEN BUTLER,
JOHN W. EDMONDS,
S. P. TOWNSEND,
OLIVER JOHNSON,
EDWIN WEST, M.D.,
SIMEON DRAPER,
EDWARD GIlbert,
(Ex-Gov.) MYRON H. CLARK,
JOSEPH HOXIE,

SAMUEL SINCLAIR,
FRANKLIN J. OTTARSON,
JOHN F. CLEVELAND,
CHARLES T. CONGDON,
JAMES O. BENNETT,

JAMES FAIRMAN,

HENRY A. HARTT, M.D., HENRY WARD Beecher.

ANNIVERSARY AND MISCELLANEOUS

POEMS

INTRODUCTORY TO THE POEMS.

THE preceding chapters are introductory to the Memorial and Miscellaneous Poems now presented. Many of these had been arranged by my beloved wife to be gifts of affection for very dear friends, for whom she had consented, in compliance with their wishes, so to prepare them. The history of events referred to in them, occurring in the course of the years over which they extend, will be found in succeeding chapters, together with letters illustrating the conflicts as well as the peaceful happy scenes through which our pilgrimage was mercifully guided.

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." (Prov. xxii. 6). The old age of his nature will be as fresh and radiant as "the dew of his youth." In Isaiah lxv. 20, 23, it is said, in reference to the obedience of a whole nation under the teachings of God's law from generation to generation,