Excerpt: ...And Gentleman: —The Lincoln Guard of Honor regard themselves merely as a standing committee to arrange for and conduct these Memorial Services. We are not a band of orators, but we propose to press into our service the best talent we can find, that we may properly observe what we regard as an important occasion. At the same time, however, we think it best that some one of our number should each time take some part in the exercises of the hour, and the lot this time falls to me. The editor here takes the liberty of transposing some of "the matter of his address and readings on that occasion, in order to present first what he regards as a perfect gem in the way of eulogy. About two years ago, just as I was dismissing a party of visitors from the door of the catacomb, a very plain, modest looking man of middle age, approached and said he had come to see and learn all he could about the monument and Lincoln. I proceeded in my usual way, when visitors are much interested, and completed my explanations on the terrace in front of the statue of the President. From the general bearing of the visitor, I should have taken him for a son of an original New: England Abolitionist. When I left off speaking he remained and seemed reluctant to take his eyes from the statue. After several minutes spent in silent meditation he astonished me by saying substantially: "I was a soldier in the Confederate army and spent four years doing my utmost to defeat all that Abraham Lincoln was trying to accomplish. He succeeded and I have no regrets on that account." After a brief interval of silence the visitor assumed a tragic attitude, and raising his right hand toward the statue, said with deliberation and emphasis: "He was an infinitely greater man than George Washington...