Twenty years have passed since that event; it is almost too new in history to make a great impression, but the time will come when it will loom up as one of the greatest of man's achievements, and the name of Abraham Lincoln — who of his own will struck the shackles from the limbs of four millions of people — will be honored thousands of years from now as man's name was never honored before.


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David Dixon Porter Quotes

Twenty years have passed since that event; it is almost too new in history to make a great impression, but the time will come when it will loom up as ...

Twenty years have passed since that event; it is almost too new in history to make a great impression, but the time will come when it will loom up as ...

Twenty years have passed since that event; it is almost too new in history to make a great impression, but the time will come when it will loom up as ...

Twenty years have passed since that event; it is almost too new in history to make a great impression, but the time will come when it will loom up as ...