Excerpt from The Biographical Record of Ogle County, Illinois: Illustrated In one of his published reminiscences, Albert Woodcock, an old citizen of the state, speaks of the debate at Freeport, and the part taken in it by Mr. Hitt: A stand was erected in the field adja cent to the city. Thousands of people gathered about-the platform. The speakers were ready. The throng was impatient. The tall form of Lincoln arose. He looked anxiously over the crowd. He called out: 'where's Hitt? Is Hitt present?' Hitt, from the extreme outskirts of the living mass, answered, 'here I am, but I cannot get to the platform.' The good-natured people understood the situation. They seized the slender youth and passed him over their heads to the stand. 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.