Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln; A Memorial Discourse: Delivered at an Union Meeting, Held in the Presbyterian Church, Waukegan Illions, Wednesday, April, 19, 1865 It is the day of adversity. A great grief throws its Shadow over heart and hearth and home. There is such a sorrow as this land never knew before; agony such as never until now wrung the heart of the nation. In man sion and cottage, alike, do the people bow themselves. We have been through the Red Sea Of war, and across the Weary, desert marches of griefs and bereavements, but heretofore we have felt that our leader was with us, and believed that surely as Moses was led by the pillar of cloud and of fire, SO did God lead him. 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.