This Week in History August 25, 1835 Lincoln's sweetheart, Ann Rutledge, dies at age 22 in Sangamon County, Illinois. August 26, 1863 President Lincoln gives his friend James Conkling a letter to read at a meeting in Springfield, Illinois. August 27, 1858 The second Lincoln-Douglas debate is held in Freeport, 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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