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At Fonda, in response to enthusiastic greetings, Mr. Lincoln made a short speech, and, in declining to mount a platform prepared for him, said that, though he would not get upon it, he wished
it to be distinctly understood that he would never shrink from a platform on which he properly belonged.
[1] New York Times, February 19, 1861.