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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 18, 2024.
ABE LINCOLN tried his best to get up steam, but with all his tact in that line, it was a dead failure. But about thirty listened. Said he, ``I am an old one; if twelve of you will sit down and look at me, I will talk to you, if not, I will desist.'' The twelve sat down, he spoke a few minutes, and throwing up his hands in disgust and despair, said---``Oh, I can't interest this crowd,'' and left the stand.
Annotation
[1] St. Louis, Missouri Republican, September 24, 1856. This brief comment occurs in a letter from an Olney correspondent (signed ``Q.'') describing a political meeting at which both Lincoln and Douglas, as well as other notables, spoke.