Abraham Lincoln's Remarks at Erie, Pennsylvania, February 16, 1861

    Source citation
    Remarks at Erie, Pennsylvania, February 16, 1861, in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 4: 219, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.
    Original source
    Erie (PA) Gazette
    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
    The following transcript has been adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953).

    Remarks at Erie, Pennsylvania

    February 16, 1861

    Being hoarse and fatigued, he excused himself from speaking at any length or expressing his opinions on the exciting questions of the day. He trusted that when the time for speaking, fully and plainly, should come, he would say nothing not in accordance with the Constitution and the Laws and the manifest interests of the whole country. Counselling all to firmness, forbearance, and patriotic adherence to the Constitution and the Union, he retired amidst applause.

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