Abraham Lincoln concluded his speaking tour of New England in Bridgeport, Connecticut with a talk to an overflow crowd at the biggest hall in the city.  The following day he left New England and arrived home in Springfield on March 14, 1860 after a very successful effort to show himself in the East as a viable candidate for president.  He never again visited New England.  (By John Osborne)

Abraham Lincoln, on a speaking tour of New England following his Cooper Union speech, spoke to an enthusiastic crowd at the Town Hall in Norwich, Connecticut.  Calling slavery "the all absorbing topic of the day," he concluding with a powerful political rallying cry for the upcoming election saying, "Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty, as God gives us power, and as we understand it." (By John Osborne)

Abraham Lincoln, on a speaking tour of New England following his Cooper Union speech, met with his son Robert Todd Lincoln, then attending Phillips Academy, and gave a speech to Exeter, New Hampshire Republicans in the evening.  He spent all of the next day with his son and his classmates and attended services in the Academy chapel. Robert was in his last year at Phillips and in September entered Harvard. (By John Osborne)

Abraham Lincoln, on a speaking tour of New England following his Cooper Union speech, spent the Sunday with his son Robert Todd Lincoln and his classmates at the Phillips Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire.  He attended services in the Academy chapel.  Robert was in his last year at Phillips and in September would enter Harvard. (By John Osborne)

The day following his famous Cooper Union Speech in New York, Abraham Lincoln continued to show himself politically in New England with a speech at the packed Railway Hall in Providence, Rhode Island.  (By John Osborne)