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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
Parker, an old grey haired man at my left cried "yes & thank God for it, too!"
The audience hissed when
he basted the Chief Justices so; but W.P. was quite undisturbed.
I had read the address
before hearing it spoken & so was prepared for those striking passages
he
where ^ says "Chattanooga & [illegible] Parrot shell thrown 5 miles gave sound sleep to the occupant at the White House" & "Ward Beecher by his matchless Eloquence has melted the great heart of the English people & welded it to our side."