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Excerpt from Eulogy on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln: Before the City Government of Manchester, N. H. June 1st, 1865 But they would not believe any one would assassinate the nation's chosen. They had not become so used then to scenes of blood, and little knew of the terrible malignity of those passions which had been set on fire of hell. To fight a duel, they said, was chivalrous and like the New World, but to strike with the dagger or the bullet by stealth was like the Old World dastardly, cowardly, mean, felonious. 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.