I have been selected to fill an important office for a brief period, and am now, in your eyes, invested with an authority which I must soon yield to the regularly chosen successor, and which I hope to use for your benefit.
Preserved the Union, ended slavery
Speech at Springfield, Illinois, on leaving for Washington.
1861
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