Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1.

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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1.
Author
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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January 6, 1848

The House . . . resolved itself into Committee of the Whole (Mr. SMITH,2Open page of Indiana, in the chair) on the joint resolution concerning the transportation of the mail from Washington south. . . .

Mr. GOGGIN3Open page said. . . . The gentleman from Illinois (Mr. LINCOLN) had yesterday thought proper to go into what occurred in committee in connection with this subject. He regretted that the gentleman should so far have trespassed, unintentionally he had no doubt, upon the rules of the House; but as he stated that every

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member upon that committee, of both political parties---that all those with whom he was associated united in support of this resolution, he thought proper to notice the remark.

Mr. LINCOLN here interposed, and (Mr. G. yielding) said that the gentleman had misunderstood him. He had said a majority of one party and the whole of the other had supported the resolution in committee.

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