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The Speech
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Abraham Lincoln & New York
The Speech
Historian Benjamin Thomas wrote: “All day on February 27, 1860 Lincoln was entertained at the Astor House as a visiting celebrity. That night, despite a snowstorm, fifteen hundred persons filed into Cooper Union, the largest assemblage…”
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