"His pale face was literally wet with tears as he re-entered the car, and the train rolled out of the city, which Abraham Lincoln was to enter no more--till, his great work finished he would come back from the war, a victor and a conqueror though with the seal of death upon his visage. Some politicians derided the solemn words of that farewell--but I knew they were the utterances of his inmost soul--never did speech of man move me as that did. Seeing every mournful tremor of those lips--noting every shadow that flitted over that face--catching every inflection of that voice--the words seemed to drop, every one, into my heart, and to be crystallized in my memory. I hurried back to my office, locked the door (for I felt that I must be alone), wrote out the address from memory and had it published in the city papers in advance of the reporters. And when the reports of the stenographers were published, they differed from mine in only two or three words, and as to even those, I have always believed that mine were right for the speech was engraved on my heart and my memory, and I had but to copy the engraving."--_Abraham Lincoln_, an address by Hon. Newton Bateman, LL.D., published by the Cadmus Club, 1899, Galesburg. Mr. Lincoln's Farewell Address, as given by Mr. Bateman in the foregoing quotation, would appear to have undergone some revision by him after its printing. He says that he furnished it to the press and that it came out in advance of the version taken down by the reporter. On this point his memory appears to be correct. The _Illinois State Journal_ of February 12, 1861, contains a report of Mr. Lincoln's address, which is almost certainly that furnished by Mr. Bateman. _Lincoln's Farewell Address as Printed in the Illinois State Journal, February 12, 1860, probably from the notes of Hon. Newton Bateman._