YOU make my heart very warm indeed by a welcome like this.

I thank you for your kindly welcome.

I thank you, my friends, from the bottom of my heart for this cordial reception.

You have the gratitude and congratulations of the whole American people.

Constant thanksgiving and gratitude are due from the American people to Almighty God for His goodness and mercy.

If our assembling In this place shall fitly honor those whom we wish remembered with gratitude, it will be because, beholding these scenes and contemplating the example of the heroes who made Gettysburg illustrious, we shall be able to estimate more wisely the value of our country and of her institutions, and be better prepared for the duties which, under Providence, have devolved upon us.

I tender to you, officers and soldiers, the thanks of the nation.

I return thanks to our soldiers for the good services they have rendered, the energy they have shown, the hardships they have endured, and the blood they have shed for this Union of ours;

For your kind expressions I am extremely grateful, but on the other hand I assure you that the nation is more indebted to you, and such as you, than to me.

The thanks of the nation will follow you, and may God's blessing rest upon you now and forever.

I thank you, Mr. Train, for your kindness in presenting me with this truly elegant and highly creditable specimen of the handiwork of the mechanics of your State of Massachusetts, and I beg of you to express my hearty thanks to the donors.

We have new cause for the expression of our gratitude