Who Said This?

[Anita]

Great memory David! Marquis de Chambrun is correct.

Here's the occasion. Lincoln's Last Sight of Mount Vernon

In early April 1865 President Lincoln visited General Grant's headquarters on the James River and entered Richmond after the Confederates fled. As he returned to Washington, he and his party aboard the River Queen sailed by Mount Vernon. It was April 9, the day that General Lee surrendered to Grant, and just five days before Lincoln would be assassinated. The Marquis Adolphe de Chambrun, a Frenchman traveling with the Lincolns, made what turned out to be a prophetic statement: "Mount Vernon, with its memories of Washington, and Springfield, with those of your own home -- revolutionary and civil war -- will be equally honored in America." At this, the weary president responded, "Springfield, how happy I shall be four years hence to return there in peace and tranquility!" No one could guess that Lincoln would be in Springfield only a month later in the new town cemetery.
http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/linc...vernon.htm

My original source Doris Kern's Goodwin, "Team of Rivals" page 723. Her source- Chambrun, "Personal Recollections of Mr. Lincoln", Scribner's 1893, pp 35, 32