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160 years ago today. President-elect Lincoln speaks to the New Jersey Senate in Trenton, N.J.:
"I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was, that there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for. I am exceedingly anxious...
160 years ago today. President-elect Lincoln speaks to the New Jersey Senate in Trenton, N.J.:
"I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was, that there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for. I am exceedingly anxious...
2. "...that this thing which they struggled for, that something even more than national independence, that something that held out a great promise to all the people of the world to all time to come; I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution...
3. "...and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made; and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people...
4."...for perpetuating the object of that great struggle. You give me this reception, as I understand, without distinction of party. I learn that this body is composed of a majority of gentlemen who, in the exercise of of their best judgment in the choice of a chief magistrate...
5. "...did not think I was the man. I understand, nevertheless, that they came forward here to greet me as the constitutional president of the United States--as citizens of the United States, to meet the man who, for the time being, is the representative man of the nation...
6. "...united by a purpose to perpetuate the Union and the liberties of the people. As such, I accept this reception more gratefully than I could do did I believe it was tendered to me as an individual."
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