John Creswell: “Called from this life at an age when most men are just beginning to command the respect and confidence of their fellows…”

For the Christian, scholar, statesman, and orator, all good men are mourners; but what shall I say of that grief which none can share--the grief of sincere friendship?

When I think of the good he would have accomplished had he survived for twenty years, I can say, in the language of Fisher Ames, "My heart, penetrated with the remembrance of the man, grows liquid as I speak, and I could pour it out like…

She was the incarnation of all that is Christian in life and hope, in charity and thought, ready for every good work, herself the example of all she taught.

If from his father he drew a courage and a fierce determination before which his enemies fled in confusion, from his mother he inherited those milder qualities that won for him friends as true and devoted as man ever possessed.