The Bay State monthly : a Massachusetts magazine . s controversy shouldend and peace resume her sway until that dreadful iniquity has beentrodden beneath our feet. I believe it cannot, and I have noticed, myfriends (although I am not superstitious, I believe), that, from the day JOHN ALBION ANDREW. H5 our government turned its back on the proclamation of General Hunter,the blessing of God has been withdrawn from our arms. We weremarching on conquering and to conquer; post after post had fallen beforeour victorious arms; but since that day I have seen no such I have seen no discou
The Bay State monthly : a Massachusetts magazine . s controversy shouldend and peace resume her sway until that dreadful iniquity has beentrodden beneath our feet. I believe it cannot, and I have noticed, myfriends (although I am not superstitious, I believe), that, from the day JOHN ALBION ANDREW. H5 our government turned its back on the proclamation of General Hunter,the blessing of God has been withdrawn from our arms. We weremarching on conquering and to conquer; post after post had fallen beforeour victorious arms; but since that day I have seen no such I have seen no discouragement. I bate not one jot of hope. I be-lieve that God rules above, and that he will rule in the hearts of men,and that, either with our aid or against it, he has determined to let thepeople go. But the confidence I have in my own mind that theappointed hour has nearly come makes me feel all the more confidencein the certain and final triumph of our Union arms, because I do not be-lieve that this great investment of Providence is to be ^^^p^gjg^iijgiipgt^^ Governor Andrew retired from office January 5, 1S66, and, re-turning to private life, he again entered upon a large practice at the bar,which was lucrative as well. On the 30th of October, 1867, he died suddenly of apoplexy, aftertea, at his own home on Charles street, Boston. The body was laid inMount Auburn Cemetery, but was afterwards removed to the old burial-place in Hingham, where a fine statue has since been erected over hisgrave. Governor Andrew was married Christmas evening, December, 1848,to Miss Eliza Jane, daughter of Charles Hersey, of Hingham. They hadfour children living at the time of his death,—John Forrester, born , 1850; Elizabeth Loring, born July 29, 1S52 ; Edith, born April 5,1854; Henry Hersey, born April 2S, 1S5S. JOHN ALBION ANDREW. Mr. Edwin P. Whipple, who was first chosen as the most competentperson to write the biography of Governor Andrew, after examining theGovernors private
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