They now lie in the cradle of liberty.

As a citizen of Massachusetts, I cannot but acknowledge our sense of the honor paid to her distinguished son.

Mourned by a nation at its capitol, attended by the representatives of millions to the grave, he has received a tribute to his memory unequalled among men.
"These remains now rest in the cradle of liberty.

It is their last resting-place on their journey home.

As a statesman's, 'this is to them the last of earth!' To-morrow they will be deposited in the peaceful church-yard of the village of his birth, there to be mourned, not as statesmen mourn for statesmen, but as friends mourn for friends.
"He will be 'gathered to his fathers!' And how great, in this case, is the significance of the expression! It is possible that other men may be attended as he will be to the grave.