就他的同时代人而言，他在美国历史上的身材毫无疑问。在整个土地上有四百多个城镇和小村庄发生的哀悼盛会中，他被描述为唯一无可争议的时代英雄，唯一的是他的阁下。
(As far as his contemporaries were concerned, there was no question about his stature in American history. In the extravaganza of mourning that occurred in more than four hundred towns and hamlets throughout the land, he was described as the only indisputable hero of the age, the one and only His Excellency.)