This Week in History May 14, 1841 Lincoln's law partnership with Stephen Logan is announced in the Sangamo Journal. May 15, 1862 President Lincoln approves the establishment of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. May 16, 1861 President Lincoln views the dress parade of the 7th New York Regiment in Washington, D.C. Today in Lincoln's Life Lincoln's Words "I think Slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union." --Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 17, 1859

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