Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: An Address
The Publisher has asked me to write a Preface. Since they are seldom read, it may be all right for me to make this one a bit personal.
My forefathers followed Boone into Kentucky about the same time the Lincolns did, and settled near them. They removed to The Old Eight Judicial District of Illinois soon after Abraham Lincoln went there. A great-uncle spent the year 1834 at New Salem and knew him as a young man. My great-grandfather was his personal friend and local, political lieutenant. Both grand fathers admired and followed him. My father's chief claim to fame was that a few months before he became of age, in 1861, he voted illegally for Lincoln and Hamlin.
I was born almost within sight of the county-seat town in Illinois that bears Mr. Lincoln's name, in the county named for his partner, Judge Logan. As a wide-eyed, open-mouthed boy, I listened with intense interest to stories told of him by people who had known him in life. Since securing a temporary armistice with the wolf that lingers near my door, I have enjoyed buying and reading every worth-while book about Lincoln that I could obtain - and pay for.
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