PRESIDENTIAL TRIP TO NEW ENGLAND

August 17, 1877

Brattleboro, Vermont

I hope you will not expect me to make you a speech tonight. I have endeavored to treat each one of you to a shake of the hand, and perhaps that is my share. I suppose I have shaken hands with as many as 4,000, and you have heard my voice. I will now, with your permission, bid you good night.