Address Delivered by the Hon. A. B. Hunt on the Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln
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Excerpt from Address Delivered by the Hon. A. B. Hunt on the Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln: At the First Congregational Church of Alameda, Sunday Eve;, Feb; 12, 1899 Mr. Hunt said: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, - if there is anything in this world that will inspire a man to make a magnificient speech, it is the subject this evening, and this grand audience that I see before me. I shall not endeavor to talk to you in a laudatory style. I am a little too old to commence that style of oratory, and if I were to attempt it, I am positively certain that I would make an absolute failure. I want to talk to you exactly as I think Abraham Lincoln would like to hear me talk if he were here. I want to talk to you in a sensible, quiet, colloquial manner, and I want to tell you as many facts as I can. Abraham Lincoln´s ancestors and his parents were the poorest of the poor. They belonged to a class in those days called poor whites. They had no political recognition or distinction, and but very little social position. After Mr. Lincoln had been nominated for President, a reporter from the Chicago Tribune went down to Springfield, and he said to Mr. Lincoln I think you had better give me the history of your early life, and I will write it up, and it will make a good campaign document. Said Mr. Lincoln, "There is not a thing in my early life that would interest a single human being; there is nothing of it; it is all told in one line of Gray´s Elegy, and that is ´The short and simple annals of the poor."´ About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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