Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 [Mar. 5, 1860-Oct. 24, 1861].
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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 [Mar. 5, 1860-Oct. 24, 1861].
Author
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 [Mar. 5, 1860-Oct. 24, 1861]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln4. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.
Hon. C. Sumner Springfield, Ills.
My dear Sir: June 14. 1860
Your note of the 8th., and the copy of your recent speech, are received; and for both of which, please accept my thanks. I have not yet found time to peruse the speech; but I anticipate much both of pleasure, and instruction from it. Your Obt. Servt.
A. LINCOLN.
Annotation
[1] ALS, CSmH. Summer presumably enclosed a copy of his speech in the Senate, June 4, ``The Barbarism of Slavery,'' but there is no copy with his letter of June 8. He describes the speech as an endeavor ``to expose the true character of the assumptions now made by the Slave-masters'' (DLC-RTL).