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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 4: (search)
e great painter, whose enormous block-tin snuff-box attracted his youthful attention. As a boy, I was present at the laying of the corner-stone of this great obelisk under whose shadow we now are. La Fayette laid the stone with appropriate and imposing masonic ceremonies. The vast procession, impatient of unavoidable delay, broke the line of march, and in a tumultuous crowd rushed towards the orator's platform; and I was saved from being trampled under foot, by the strong arm of Mr. George Sullivan, who lifted me on his shoulders, shouting, Don't kill the orator's son! and bore me through the crowd, and placed me on the staging at my father's feet. I felt something embarrassed at that notice, as I now do at this unforeseen notice by His Excellency; but I had no occasion to make an acknowledgment of it. He had also noticed the ceremonies of the completion of the monument in the presence of many distinguished persons from all parts of the country, some of whom, said Colonel Web