This Week in History September 25, 1858 Lincoln is serenaded by the Republican Clay Club at his Springfield home in support of his senatorial candidacy. September 26, 1862 President Lincoln holds a cabinet meeting about colonization. September 30, 1859 Lincoln speaks at the Wisconsin State Fair in Milwaukee. 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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