Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: An Address Delivered by James A. Beaver, of Pennsylvania, at the Banquet of the Ohio Republican League, Columbus, Ohio, Feb; 13, 1888, in Commemoration of the Birthday of Abraham Lincoln In the year 1859, in Champaign county, Illinois, there was published a newspaper called the Central Illinois Gazette. In April of that year Mr. Lincoln Visited the county in the discharge of professional engagements. The boy-editor of the newspaper came out from the breakfast table one morning, and found in the office of the modest hotel a man whom he scarcely knew, but whose appearance, as he read a letter which he had j ust taken from the mail, enchained him and held him in rapt attention. The deep lines of thought and the shade of melancholy which were manifest in his countenance, were at once a curiosity and a study. As the man looked up from his letter which had evidently inspired him with sublime thought and tender feeling, his great soul beamed out of his luminous eyes and his whole countenance um derwent a marvelous transformation. The young watcher had never seen such a delineation of human character;had never felt the influence of such an inspiring change in the human countenance. He was thrilled and spell bound by something of the force of a personality which has so often swayed multitudes at the will of the orator. The greatest man I ever saw or heard of! He ex claimed, as he slipped quietly out of the hotel. He rushed to the printing oflice. Its proprietor, a clever doctor of the neighborhood, was there before 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.