Excerpt from The Private and Public Life of Abraham Lincoln: Comprising a Full Account of His Early Years, and a Succinct Record of His Career as Statesman and President The Canvass of ism - The great Senatorial Contest - Visit to Kansas and New York - The Cooper Institute Speech - Beautiful Incident, 42. 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.