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ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH

  "Abraham, I beg you put enmity aside long enough to read a few words of congratulations. It brings me joy to report that our enemy has begun its exodus—many back to Europe, others to South America and the Orient, where they are less likely to be hunted. They have looked to the future, Abraham—and they have seen that America is now, and shall forever be, a nation of living men. Like your namesake, you have been a “father to many” these four long years. And like your namesake, God has asked impossible sacrifices of you. Yet you have endured it all as brilliantly as any man could have hoped. You have blessed the futures of those who share this time on earth, and those who have yet to live. She would be proud.  Ever, —H"  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH  2021-01-16 16:24 ───

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH

  "Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue… until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.  —Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address  March 4th, 1865"  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH   2021-01-16 16:25 ───

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH

  "Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. —Abraham Lincoln, in a message to Congress  December 1st, 1862"  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH  2021-01-16 16:17 ───

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH

  "Abraham, It is a difficult thing to know the future. We see it reflected as in ripples of water—distorted and ever moving. There are moments, however, when the ripples subside and the reflection becomes clear. The Union saw one of those moments in your future that night in New York: you are destined to defeat Jefferson Davis, Abraham. You alone. Further, I do not believe that it is your destiny to die on this errand. I feel this with my whole self. I would not send you otherwise. It must be you, Abraham. I beg you reconsider. Ever, —H"  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH  2021-01-16 18:46 ───

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH

  "Henry, I am an old man with three sons and a wife who has wept over too many graves already. I will cause her no further grief by getting myself killed. Surely there are a hundred, or a thousand among your kind better suited to the task. Why must you prevail upon me when I am years removed from my best?  Send someone else. Yours, —Abraham  Henry’s reply came by express a mere four days after Abe sent his refusal off to New York."  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH

  “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. —Abraham Lincoln, accepting the Republican  Party’s nomination for senator  June 16th, 1858"  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH  2021-01-16 16:16 ───

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH

 " We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us. —Abraham Lincoln, proclaiming a National Fast Day  March 30th, 1863"  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH  2021-01-16 16:16 ───

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH

  Those midnight stars are sadly dimmed, That late so brilliantly shone, And the crimson tinge from cheek and lip, With the heart’s warm life has flown— The angel of Death was hovering nigh, And the lovely boy was called to die. The silken waves of his glossy hair  Lie still over his marble brow, And the pallid lip and pearly cheek  The presence of Death avow. Pure little bud in kindness given, In mercy taken to bloom in heaven. Happier far is the angel child  With the harp and the crown of gold, Who warbles now at the Savior’s feet  The glories to us untold. Eddy, meet blossom of heavenly love, Dwells in the spirit-world above. Angel Boy—fare thee well, farewell  Sweet Eddy, We bid thee adieu! Affection’s wail cannot reach thee now  Deep though it be, and true. Bright is the home to him now given. Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH  2021-01-16 18:46 ───

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH

"Those midnight stars are sadly dimmed, That late so brilliantly shone, And the crimson tinge from cheek and lip,  With the heart’s warm life has flown— The angel of Death was hovering nigh, And the lovely boy was called to die. The silken waves of his glossy hair  Lie still over his marble brow,  And the pallid lip and pearly cheek  The presence of Death avow. Pure little bud in kindness given, In mercy taken to bloom in heaven. Happier far is the angel child  With the harp and the crown of gold,  Who warbles now at the Savior’s feet  The glories to us untold.  Eddy, meet blossom of heavenly love,  Dwells in the spirit-world above. Angel Boy—fare thee well, farewell  Sweet Eddy, We bid thee adieu!  Affection’s wail cannot reach thee now  Deep though it be, and true. Bright is the home to him now given  Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH  2021-01-16 16:29 ───...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH

 " Those midnight stars are sadly dimmed, That late so brilliantly shone, And the crimson tinge from cheek and lip, With the heart’s warm life has flown— The angel of Death was hovering nigh, And the lovely boy was called to die. The silken waves of his glossy hair  Lie still over his marble brow, And the pallid lip and pearly cheek  The presence of Death avow. Pure little bud in kindness given, In mercy taken to bloom in heaven. Happier far is the angel child  With the harp and the crown of gold,  Who warbles now at the Savior’s feet  The glories to us untold. Eddy, meet blossom of heavenly love,  Dwells in the spirit-world above. Angel Boy—fare thee well, farewell  Sweet Eddy, We bid thee adieu! Affection’s wail cannot reach thee now  Deep though it be, and true. Bright is the home to him now given.  Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH  2021-01-16 16:16 ───

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH

 " The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. —Abraham Lincoln, in a speech in the House of Representatives  June 20th, 1848"  ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH  2021-01-16 16:15 ───