This Week in History December 10, 1860 President-elect Lincoln writes to Senator Trumbull and urges him not to compromise on the extension of slavery. December 11, 1843 Lincoln is chosen as a presidential elector at the Illinois Whig Party convention. December 13, 1818 Lincoln's future wife, Mary Ann Todd, is born in Lexington, Kentucky to Robert and Eliza Todd. Today in Lincoln's Life Lincoln's Words "In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity." --Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862

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