Abraham Lincoln's Remarks at Leaman Place, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1861

Abraham Lincoln, February 9, 1861, detail

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Source citation:

Remarks at Leaman Place, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1861, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 4: 242, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.

Original source:

Lancaster (PA) Evening Express

Author:

Lincoln, Abraham

Type:

Speech

Date Certainty:

Exact

Transcriber:

Transcription adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. Basler

Adapted by Don Sailer, Dickinson College

Transcription

The following transcript has been adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953).

Remarks at Leaman Place, Pennsylvania

February 22, 1861

Mr. Lincoln appeared and said he was too unwell to say much to them. He expressed his pleasure on entering the great county of Lancaster, and thanked them for their friendly greeting, concluding by saying that he had merely come out to see them and let them see him, in which he thought he had the best of the bargain! To this the crowd responded ``no you haven't!''

Loud calls being made for Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. L. brought her out, and said he had concluded to give them ``the long and the short of it!'' This remark---with the disparity between the length of himself and wife---produced a loud burst of laughter, followed by enthusiastic cheers as the train moved off.

People

Lincoln, Mary Todd

Places

Lancaster County, PA

Abraham Lincoln's Remarks at Leaman Place, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1861

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