Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed, March 15, 1865

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Source citation:

Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed, March 15, 1865, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 7: 244, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.

Author:

Lincoln, Abraham

Recipient:

Weed, Thurlow

Type:

Letter

Date Certainty:

Exact

Transcriber:

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

Adapted by Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College

Transcription date:

07/03/2013

Transcription

The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

Executive Mansion,Washington,

March 15, 1865

Thurlow Weed, Esq

My dear Sir. .

Every one likes a compliment. Thank you for yours on my little notification speech, and on the recent Inaugeral Address. I expect the latter to wear as well as---perhaps better than---any thing I have produced; but I believe it is not immediately popular. Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. It is a truth which I thought needed to be told; and as whatever of humiliation there is in it, falls most directly on myself, I thought others might afford for me to tell it.

Yours truly

A. LINCOLN

Major Topics

Election of 1864

Places

White House, Washington, DC

Abraham Lincoln to Thurlow Weed, March 15, 1865

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