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Alas! they have been poor and small, and lean doings, and I'll be the man that shall throw the first stone at them all." Mather relates that he spake other words "little short of oracles," and laments that they were not correctly recorded; but it appears that he gradually sank, and died in his eighty-seventh year of age, at Roxbury, in the year 1690. His last words were, "Welcome joy."
In his eighty-seventh year, the old man ran a race with one of these children, and contrived, by an artifice, to win it. She got before him; when, fearing he would hurt himself, she stopped to look after him; he came up to her; and then, just pushing her back a little, got before her to the goal, which was very near them.
Then, on the next night, the Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighth regiments were ordered up to storm the fort, and succeeded after a brisk action in gaining the place, the most of the garrison escaping into the town. Next morning I entered the fort with the rest, where we found the wounded Frenchmen lying.
When told that they were Federals, he seemed overjoyed, and urged them to "come on and let's catch all those d n Rebels." But when they asked him a few questions he gave himself away. He was asked: "What command do you belong to?" "Eighty-seventh New York," Moses answered, without hesitation. "What brigade?" "What division?" etc. "We have no such commands in this army.
I went alone I was always an egotistical chap, more's the pity and with no further precaution than a passing explanation to the officer I met at the corner, I hastened up the block to the rear entrance on Eighty-seventh Street. There are three doors to the Fairbrother house, as you probably know. It was to the latter I had a key. I do not think any one saw me go in.
At their eighty-seventh sitting the bill was read a third time and passed, and the lord mayor of London was ordered to carry the bill to the lords, and desire their concurrence. An Act for the better protecting and securing of the trade and navigation of this kingdom in times of war.
Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-seventh. By the President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. It will be observed that the Proclamation was merely a war measure resting on the constitutional power of the President.
A little before twelve o'clock, he continues, came our kind young friend, Hannah Gessner, to accompany us to the ancient and worthy Bishop Hess. He is in his eighty-seventh year, but lively in spirit and active in mind. He is uncommonly liberal in his religious opinions, and his enlarged heart seemed to overflow with Christian love towards the followers of Christ under every name.
Done at the city of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.
Done at the City of Washington this first day of January, 1863, and of the independence of the United States the Eighty-seventh. By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. Amendment to the National Constitution recommended by President Lincoln in his Message to Congress of December I, 1862. Article.
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