Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . ningof the fourth he found himself too weak to rise fromhis bed. On being requested to name a toast for thecustomary celebration of the day, he exclaimed In-dependence FOREVER. When the day was usheredin, by the ringing of bells and the firing of cannons,he was asked by one of his attendants if he knewwhat day it was? He replied, O yes; it is the glor-ious fourth of July—God bless it—God bless you the course of the day he said, It is a great andglorious day. The last words he uttered were,Jefferson survives. But he had, at o
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . ningof the fourth he found himself too weak to rise fromhis bed. On being requested to name a toast for thecustomary celebration of the day, he exclaimed In-dependence FOREVER. When the day was usheredin, by the ringing of bells and the firing of cannons,he was asked by one of his attendants if he knewwhat day it was? He replied, O yes; it is the glor-ious fourth of July—God bless it—God bless you the course of the day he said, It is a great andglorious day. The last words he uttered were,Jefferson survives. But he had, at one oclock, re-signed his spirit into the hands of his God. The personal appearance and manners of were not particularly prepossessing. His face,as his ]3ortrait intellectual and expres-sive, but his figure was low and ungraceful, and hismanners were frequently abrupt and had neither the lofty dignity of Washington, northe engaging elegance and gracefulness which markedthe manners and address of Tcfferson, •^^
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