Word: sangamon
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...which we celebrate the birthdays of our two greatest Americans, it is of interest to know what "the emancipator" thought of "the father". I wish to submit here the tribute which Lincoln paid to Washington at the close of an address delivered in 1842, and published in the "Sangamon Journal" of Springfield, III., on March 26, 1842. This tribute was lost for seventy-eight years--till one day in February, 1920, L. H. Alexander of Philadelphia discovered it in the files at Washington. Because it is so little known, and because it is so simple and beautiful a statement...