An Address Delivered in the Auditorium, Portland, Maine, at the Eleventh Annual Banquet of the Lincoln Club, Tuesday Evening, February 12, 1901

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Excerpt from An Address Delivered in the Auditorium, Portland, Maine, at the Eleventh Annual Banquet of the Lincoln Club, Tuesday Evening, February 12, 1901: In Observance of the Ninety-Second Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham LincolnWithout consultation, he wrote the Emancipation Proclama tion, which created intense excitement and marked him still more conspicuously than ever for the hand of the assassin, yet, with the interpretation of this illusion ever present in his mind, he still put off issuing this document which was to be the central act of his administration and the great event of the nineteenth cen tury.Perhaps the most sublime occasion of his life, was when he presented this immortal document to his Cabinet, and he prefaced this act by reading a chapter from Artemus Ward. Every Amer ican youth, north of Mason and Dixon's line who had read this book, was brought at once into sympathy with him for diverting his mind with such frivolous drollery, for it was common ground upon which they could meet and more fully appreciate each other.At length, the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, and took effect as the noblest political document known to history.Four years of civil war were slowly coming to a close, and those who were opposed to the President and the war rallied in great strength, but Abraham Lincoln was again triumphantly elected President of the United States. His second inaugural address was characteristic of the man, for it was one of the noblest utterances that ever fell from the lips of man.Finally he began to see the fruits of his labors, and the end of the bloodiest war known in the history of the world.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.