This Week in History September 22, 1862 President Lincoln reads the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to his Cabinet. September 23, 1849 Lincoln declines the Oregon governorship in a letter to Thomas Ewing, Secretary of the Interior. September 24, 1868 Robert Todd Lincoln, eldest son of Abraham and Mary, is married to Mary Eunice Harlan in 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

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