This Week in History September 15, 1858 The third Lincoln-Douglas debate is held in Jonesboro, Illinois. September 18, 1858 The fourth Lincoln-Douglas debate is held in Charleston, Illinois. September 19, 1871 President Lincoln's remains are re-buried in a new tomb designed by Larkin Meade at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois. Today in Lincoln's Life Lincoln's Words "The struggle of today, is not altogether for today -- it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us." --Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861

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