This Week in History May 29, 1856 Lincoln makes a famous "lost" speech at the Republican state convention in Bloomington, Illinois. May 30, 1836 Lincoln's position as postmaster is lost when the post office is discontinued at New Salem, Illinois. June 1, 1861 President Lincoln sits for a portrait by painter George Storey. Today in Lincoln's Life Lincoln's Words "In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity." --Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862

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