Excerpt from Twenty-Second Lincoln Birthday Service: Memorial Hall, Chicago, Saturday, February 12th, 1921, 2: 30 O'clock P. M Mr. Loesch: Mr. President, and ladies and gentle men: I appreciate the honor very highly of being asked to deliver the address of the day and I hope that it will be of a character to make us feel additional pride in the man in whose name we are met today. 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.