Abraham Lincoln: An Address Delivered at Iowa City Iowa Before the State Historical Society of Iowa on May Twenty-Fifth Nineteen Hundred Ten (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: An Address Delivered at Iowa City Iowa Before the State Historical Society of Iowa on May Twenty-Fifth Nineteen Hundred TenBehind Lincoln, as the background of his life, lay the wide melancholy of the western plain, its low hills, its shifting sky, its shadowy forests and winding streams, and the hardship and hazard of pioneer days. There we see the lad in the log cabin, studying by a dim fire light; the rail-splitter and the reader of books; the flat-boatman going far down the rivers - a strange, heroic, pathetic story which still awaits the touch of a master hand. Then appears the tall, gawky captain in the Black Hawk War, clad in a suit of blue jeans, sworn into the service by J efferson Davis; the post master at New Salem who carried his othee in his hat; the surveyor whose outg fit was sold for debt; the village sceptic, fabulist and athlete; and the young man standing white and forlorn at the grave of a country girl, whose image he kept in his heart wrapped in the sweet and aw ful sadness of the valley of shadows.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.