February 8, 1855
Lincoln is defeated in the the U.S. Senate race when the Illinois legislature elects Lyman Trumbull.
February 10, 1807
Lincoln's older sister Sarah is born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
February 11, 1861
President-elect Lincoln says a few words of farewell at a train depot in Springfield, Illinois before departing for Washington, DC.
Today in Lincoln's Life
Lincoln's Words
"I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you, and not
with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you,
is the question, "Shall the Union and shall the liberties of this country be
preserved to the latest generation?"
--Speech to Gov. Morton in Indianapolis, February 11, 1861