Excerpt from And His Name Is Abraham Lincoln: A Homily Those good old times so often chanted and sung in poetry and song, were not altogether so good and above reproach. The torture chamber of the Inquisition - promptly planted in many quarters of this continent, the burning of witches, the strangling and hanging and torturing and banishing of dissenters, were but the. Order of the day. And in consequence of these good old times some of England's. Best sons came and settled the eastern coast - and began to inaugurate a new era. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.