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Title: Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Slavery
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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uested byletter, to deliver some sortof speech in Mr. Beecherschurch, in Brooklyn, $200 be-ing offered in the first letter.I made the speech, and leftfor New Hampshire, where Ihave a son at school, neitherasking for pay nor having anyoffered me. Three days after,a check for $200- was sent tome, at N.H., and I took it,and did not know it waswrong. My understandingnow is, though I knew noth-ing of it at the time, that theydid charge for admittance, atthe Cooper Institute, and thatthey took in more than twice$200. I have made this explana-tion to you as a friend: but Iwish no explanation made toour enemies. What they wantis a squabble and a fuss; andthat they can have if we ex-plain; and that they can haveif we dont. When I returned throughNew York from New EnglandI was told by the gentlemanwho sent me the check, that adrunken vagabond in theClub, having learned some-thing about the $200, made theexhibition out of which theHerald manufactured ihe ar-ticle quoted by the Press ofyour town.
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REV. HENRY WARDBEECHER—Lincoln originallywas scheduled to speak at? hischurch in Brooklyn. My judgment is, and there-fore my request is, that yougive, no denial and no ex-planation.. • * * The Herald continued itssquabble and fuss in thisway: Our readers will recollectthat this peripatetic politi-cian visited New York ... onhis financial tour, when, inreturn for the most unmiti-gated trash interlarded withcoarse and clumsy jokes, hefilled his empty pockets withdollars coined out of Republi-can fanaticism. (From -Abraham Lincoln Gops toNew York. Coward McCann Copy-right, I960, by Andrew A. Freeman.) NEXT—The speech is over,pone to print ... and in thetrash can goes the preciousmanuscript. J Boston Oaily u-lobeBoston, Mass.2 /13 /60 1v haft New York Discovered Lincoln -- VII

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