Excerpt from Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln: Late President of the United States, Delivered Before the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, Boston, May 3, 1865 WE assemble again and oh, how soon and sadly to render our mournful tribute of respect to the illustrious dead. Our hearts are bowed and stricken at the judgment of Almighty God, who hath stretched forth his hand from the folds of eternity and taken to him self the Chief Magistrate of this nation. 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.