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Here are fifty cents ; I advise you to pass the day at the 

 cemetery of Mount Auburn. 



Very interesting to me were sundry excursions in the 

 Southern States, the first as far back as 1864. After 

 attending the Baltimore Convention which renominated 

 Mr. Lincoln, and paying my respects to him at Wash 

 ington, as stated in my political reminiscences, I went 

 somewhat later to Bichmond. Libby Prison had a sad 

 interest for me, as for many at that time, and on all 

 sides was seen the havoc of war; but perhaps the most 

 curious feature of my stay was a visit to the house which 

 had served as the White House of the Confederacy the 

 dwelling of Jefferson Davis, for, just as I entered the 

 door I met one of the arch antislavery men of New Eng 

 land, Dr. Leonard Bacon of New Haven. Both of us 

 were happy at the outcome of the war, but it was with 

 a very solemn sort of joy that we thus met in such a 

 place. I seemed to hear, as so often in the South of that 

 day, and, indeed, in the North also, that fearful prophecy 

 of Thomas Jefferson when speaking of slavery in the 

 Southern States beginning with the words, &quot;I tremble 

 when I remember that God is just.&quot; Halting at Gettys 

 burg on my return northward, I found marks of the 

 terrible contest of the previous year still vivid. For 

 miles, in all directions, on the roads and through the 

 fields, were fragments of shell, of cannon, of harness, of 

 clothing, and equipments of every sort. The trees, es 

 pecially those near the great centers of the struggle, 

 where the cemetery now is, were gashed and torn in 

 trunk and branches, and here and there were to be seen 

 fragments of human bodies which, having been too hastily 

 buried, had been washed out by the rains. 



About ten years later, February, 1875, being much 

 worn with labor and care at the university, I made a 

 short stay in the more Southern States, my first stop 

 being at Washington, where I passed an interesting even 

 ing at the Executive Mansion with President Grant, who 

 was as simple and cordial in manner as ever. The next 



