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June 30, 1864
Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase resigns from President Lincoln's cabinet.
President Lincoln signs the Pacific Railroad Act and the Morrill Land Act.
Lincoln is a delegate to the River and Harbor Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
"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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