Albert Beveridge: “Nothing was too ridiculous for belief; nothing too absurd to be credited.”

What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!

There was about him so little of 'the insolence of office,' and so much of the benignity of the man, that his presence always produced ... the most delightful impressions.

These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.

The Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser said that "no man has lived or died in this country, save its father George Washington alone, who united such a warmth of affection for his person, with so deep and unaffected a respect for his…