(Lincoln & Hamlin
Republican Ticket
Boston: Wright & Potter, 1860, Broadside
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Gift of Alfred Whital Stern, 1953)
His inaugural Bible,
(The Holy Bible
Oxford: 1853
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Gift of Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln, 1928)
(Abraham Lincoln to George Ashmun
Holograph draft, May 23, 1860
Manuscript Division
Gift of Robert Todd Lincoln, 1923)
"Imploring the assistance of Divine Providence..."
Side note, there are people that tend to argue that evil things have been done by people claiming to serve God, yet they cannot seem to admit that many, many good things have been done by people of faith.
(Abraham Lincoln
First draft of the Emancipation Proclamation
Holograph document, July 22, 1862)
"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."
(Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
to A.G. Hodges
Holograph letter April 4, 1864)
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