Excerpt from Easy Plays for Lincoln's BirthdayAbraham Lincoln's place is very close to the hearts of the common people. His own humble origin and early hardships having given him a breadth and fullness of sympathy for the poor and troubled and oppressed that never failed throughout his life. He was truly a man of the people, but high as well as low honored his sound judgment, his absolute integrity, his truth and justice and honor, which commanded the respect of all, and devotion of multitudes.From the lowly log cabin in Hardin County, Ken tucky, where he was born, February 12, 1809, he passed onward and upward in a career marked by toil and earnest purpose, to the White House and highest Office in our land.He was made President of the United States in 1861, and guided the country through the terrible struggle of the Civil War, saved the Union and abolished slavery.He came to a tragic death at the hands of an assassin, in April, 1865, just after his reelection.But like Washington, he still lives in the hearts of his countrymen.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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