O. H. Oldroyd, editor of the "Lincoln Memorial Album," says:
"His fame is world-wide and stands in history more lasting than a monument of brass. His words will continue to sound through the ages as long as the flowers shall bloom or the waters flow."
Another writer says:
"We hear Lincoln's words in every schoolhouse and college, in every cabin, and at every public meeting. We read them in every newspaper, school-book, and magazine, and they are all in favor of right, liberty, and truth, and of honesty and reverence for God. His words, some of them as familiar as the Bible, are on the tongues of the people, shaping the national character."
Bishop Newman said:
"There is no name more deserving of imperishable fame than Abraham Lincoln. He is embalmed in song, recorded in history, eulogized in panegyric, cast in bronze, sculptured in marble, painted on canvas, enshrined in the hearts of his countrymen, and lives in the memories of mankind."
GEORGE W. TURNHAM,
Of Evansville, Indiana, son of the Indiana constable who loaned Lincoln the Revised Statutes of Indiana. Mr. Turnham has a letter written to his father by Lincoln in 1860, and printed in this volume.