Excerpt from Tributes to Abraham Lincoln: Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources Providing Testimonials Lauding the 16th President of the United States; Surnames Beginning With Morgen-My In the first place, continued the speaker, in a large measure 'the Republican party, because Lincoln was its standard bearer, came in for a share of the negro' s gratitude for the gift of freedom, but due to' 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.