Lincoln's Inaugural Train In Rochester,NY-Young Boy Jumps Aboard!

[RJNorton]

Bill, there are nothing further about the boy, but here is the text of the letter the "old man" wrote:

"To Abraham Lincoln, President Elect of the United States, passing Rochester:

Honored Sir – I have watched you day by day, in your progress from Springfield, and caught an echo of the cheering shouts, from a patriotic and confiding people, that greet you on your way to the Capital. Earnest prayers go up from millions of true hearts, all crying ‘God bless him' One of these millions, now in the wane of life, who yet wishes the glorious old flag of the stripes and stars to float over his grave, comes to join his feeble voice to this swelling acclaim, and to say, with a full heart and tearful eyes, and good hope, also – God bless you, Sir, and have you ever in His holy keeping, and give you grace, and wisdom, and strength, in this time of difficulty and peril, to be a great blessing to your country! -- a worthy successor of Washington—to be remembered, revered and loved forever."

An Old Man