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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Personal Sketches and tributes (search)
resent sphere by the increased zeal and faithfulness of the friends he has left behind. Edward Everett A letter to Robert C. Waterston. Amesbury, 27th 1st Month, 1865. I acknowledge thSociety for the purpose of paying a tribute to the memory of our late illustrious associate, Edward Everett. It is a matter of deep regret to me that the state of my health will not permit me to bewho added new lustre to the old and honored name of Quincy, all eyes instinctively turned to Edward Everett as the last of that venerated class of patriotic civilians who, outliving all dissent and jeictions I may have done injustice to the motives of those with whom I differed. As respects Edward Everett, it seems to me that only within the last four years I have truly known him. In that briet sacrifices offered upon the altar of patriotism,—wealth, ease, homelove, life itself. But Edward Everett did more than this: he laid on that altar not only his time, talents, and culture, but his p