This Week in History June 30, 1864 Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase resigns from President Lincoln's cabinet. July 2, 1862 President Lincoln signs the Pacific Railroad Act and the Morrill Land Act. July 5, 1847 Lincoln is a delegate to the River and Harbor Convention in Chicago, Illinois. 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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