Abraham Lincoln

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

ON FEBRUARY 28, 1860, SPOKE IN RAILROAD HALL LOCATED ON THIS SITE.

THE PREVIOUS NIGHT HE HAD DELIVERED HIS FAMOUS ADDRESS AT COOPER UNION IN NEW YORK. TO PLEASE NEW ENGLAND SUPPORTERS AND TO VISIT HIS SON, ROBERT AT PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY, HE UNDERTOOK A SPEAKING TOUR, WHICH HELPED HIS PARTY TO WIN SPRING ELECTIONS IN NEW ENGLAND AND CONTRIBUTED TO HIS ELECTION AS PRESIDENT IN NOVEMBER. 

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. A. Lincoln FROM THE COOPER UNION ADDRESS