Excerpt from Reminiscences About Abraham Lincoln: Newspaper Clippings, Accounts, and Memories of Those Whose Lives Included an Encounter With the 16th President of the United States; Surnames Beginning With Gra-Gre In the manifesto written to Mr. Greeley by Lincoln in August, 1862, in reply to an appeal 'from the pro-slavery party, Mr. Greeley is of Opinion that Lincoln recognized 'the'righfic destroy slavery whenever the step should be deemed necessary to the salvation of the nation It proved to the mind of mr.greeley that Lincoln was meditating the grave step, and, clearly perceiving that it would become necessary, took the opportunity referred to of preparing the public mind for 'acquiesg cence therein whenever he should realize and announce that the time had come. 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.