Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . jl ilf-tl Tul fifiy thousand, and is much admired for its elegant buildings, lastelul -) decorations, and wide, clean streets. My first singing here occurred some )earsbefore, in the Hall of Representatives, in the presence of the President, Abraham•^y^^ Lincoln, and his Cabinet. n The simi)licity of the melodies, combined with their lofty sentiment, touched these great minds, wearied with the tangled affairs of State, and for a time seemed to bring comfort and rest. M
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . jl ilf-tl Tul fifiy thousand, and is much admired for its elegant buildings, lastelul -) decorations, and wide, clean streets. My first singing here occurred some )earsbefore, in the Hall of Representatives, in the presence of the President, Abraham•^y^^ Lincoln, and his Cabinet. n The simi)licity of the melodies, combined with their lofty sentiment, touched these great minds, wearied with the tangled affairs of State, and for a time seemed to bring comfort and rest. Mr. Lincoln w-as particularly ]jleased with Your Mission, and sent up a wrilleii request (which I now have in my possession, and regard as a rare relic) to ha\e it. INITRD STATES CAITT.\L, XV repeated. .Among those present on that occasion may be mentioned \Vm. H. Seward, SalmonP. Chase, Charles Sumner, Fessenden, Secretary of the Treasury; Stanton, Secretary of A\ar;Wells, Schuyler Colfax, Washburne, Blaine. Dawes, Boutwell, W. S. Hancock, General JamesA. Garfield, and representatives of the highest social culture of the country adorned andgraced the occasion. I have given many services in the capital since then, and have always AT IIIF. CAriTAL. had good audiences. I visited Washington in the winter of 1878, en route for Texas, onwhich occasion I i)aid my resjjects to President Hayes and his estimable lady at the WhiteHouse.
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