This Week in History August 26, 1863 President Lincoln declines an invitation by James Conkling to speak at a mass meeting of Union men in Springfield, Illinois but provides a message to read to them. August 27, 1858 The second Lincoln-Douglas debate in the U.S. Senate race is held in Freeport, Illinois. August 29, 1864 President Lincoln's challenger for office, General George McClellan, is nominated at the Democrat Party's National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. 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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