Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society: At the Second Presbyterian Church, on the 23d Day of February, 1842
The kind, the un'pretending, the patient, the laborious, the brave, the wise, the great and good abraham lincoln is dead! The Nation's heart Should melt and be poured out like water.
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