This Week in History January 27, 1838 Lincoln gives a now-famous speech at the Young Men's Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois. January 28, 1861 President-elect Lincoln writes an early draft of his First Inaugural Address in Springfield, Illiinois. February 1, 1850 Edward Baker Lincoln, son of Abraham and Mary, dies at home at nearly four years of age. 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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