This Week in History March 9, 1832 Lincoln's platform as a candidate for the Illinois legislature is published in the Sangamo Journal. March 10, 1846 Edward Baker Lincoln is born to Abraham and Mary at home in Springfield, Illinois. March 11, 1860 While on a speaking tour of eastern states, Lincoln visits the church of Henry Ward Beecher in Brooklyn, New York. 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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