His removal cast upon me a heavier weight of cares than ever devolved upon any one of his predecessors. It finds some solace in the consideration that he lived to enjoy the highest proof of its confidence by entering on the renewed term of the Chief Magistracy to which he had been elected that he brought the civil war substantially to a close that his loss was deplored in all parts of the Union, and that foreign nations have rendered justice to his memory. Our thoughts next revert to the death of the late President by an act of parricidal treason. To express gratitude to God in the name of the people for the preservation of the United States is my first duty in addressing you. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives:
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