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In this case he almost tells us that the one real reason why he did not return to Geneva was that he found a shelter from Paris close at hand. Even before then he had begun to conceive characteristic doubts whether his fellow-citizens at Geneva would not be nearly as hostile to his love of living solitarily and after his own fashion as the good people of Paris.
The Athenians at home were in a state of siege, and needed every man and every ship for the defence of their own territory, and the maintenance of their empire in Greece. Sickness and despondency had already wrought dire havoc among the troops encamped before Syracuse. To remain was utter ruin, both to themselves and their fellow-citizens.
And when shall I repay you for your so very important services to me, if I now be remiss? or where will you derive benefit from me, if not in war? By this accomplishment I maintained my rank in my native country: and, unconquered in war, I was banished during peace by my ungrateful fellow-citizens.
And now, friends and fellow-citizens, it is time to bring this discourse to a close. We have indulged in gratifying recollections of the past, in the prosperity and pleasures of the present, and in high hopes for the future. But let us remember that we have duties and obligations to perform, corresponding to the blessings which we enjoy.
"I am facing the day," he said to himself, "and the papers containing the contemptuous judgments of my critics are being delivered in millions to my fellow-citizens. This thing I have gained I am rapidly becoming infamous." His weakness, his shuddering fear made his going forth a torture.
Just now I've got something to attend to besides foolishness." And he trudged back into the town house, with his fellow-citizens staring after him, as the populace of Rome must have stared after victorious Caesar. For some weeks the town of Smyrna had been witnessing something very like a bear-baiting.
Stafford's directions were addressed, were the medical as well as the political advisers of their fellow-citizens for three or four successive generations. One of them, Governor John of Connecticut, practised so extensively, that, but for his more distinguished title in the State, he would have been remembered as the Doctor.
It was at Pappsville, twelve miles from Springfield, that he made his first campaign speech. He said: "Gentlemen and fellow-citizens "I presume you all know who I am. "I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the legislature. "My politics are short and sweet.
"MR. DE GROOT AND FELLOW-CITIZENS, I esteem it one of my highest honors that I should have been designated to perform the office of unveiling this day the fine statue of our illustrious and immortal Franklin. When requested to accept this duty I was confined to my bed, but I could not refuse, and I said: 'Yes, if I have to be lifted to the spot! "Franklin needs no eulogy from me.
Given under my hand the 22d day of October, A.D. 1851, and the seventy-sixth of the Independence of the United States. By the President: J.J. CRITTENDEN, Acting Secretary of State. WASHINGTON, December 2, 1851. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: I congratulate you and our common constituency upon the favorable auspices under which you meet for your first session.
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