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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: An Address Delivered by Mr. John F. Nash; At Ottawa, Illinois, February Twelfth; One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seven Ladies and Gentlemen: Every nation and every people have had their myths, their legends, their folk lore, their traditions, their poets, their dramatists, their gods, their national idols and their heroes. France has her St. Louis; Switzerland, her William Tell; the Lowlands, their William the Silent; Ireand, her St. Patrick; Engand, her Arthur, and we, among the youngest of all nations, have two, Washington and Lincoln. The name of Washington is surrounded with the mystic halo of romance, and the name of Lincoln will be so surrounded. In classic days it was the custom to award heroes the honors of divinity. Their idols were set up in splendid temples adorned with all the orders of architecture. In medieval days the church conferred upon its martyrs and heroes the title of saintship. Lincoln has not been so honored, but he was a martyr and hero, and the American people look upon him as a saint. We have met here tonight for the purpose of honoring his memory. The year 1809 will forever be memorable as the year that gave him birth. Many other able men in foreign countries were born in the same year, but most of them with whom we are acquainted were to the manor born, while Abraham Lincoln was only born in the lowest depths of poverty. Many of the former had the advantages of extensive travel under the patronage, and at the expense, of great, rich and prosperous nations. 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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