The Writings of Abraham Lincoln— Volume 5: 1858– 1862

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Author: Abraham Lincoln

Speech to a Party of Massachusetts Gentleman Washington, March 13, 1862

I thank you, Mr. Train, for your kindness in presenting me with this truly elegant and highly creditable specimen of the handiwork of the mechanics of your State of Massachusetts, and I beg of you to express my hearty thanks to the donors. It displays a perfection of workmanship which I really wish I had time to acknowledge in more fitting words, and I might then follow your idea that it is suggestive, for it is evidently expected that a good deal of whipping is to be done. But as we meet here socially let us not think only of whipping rebels, or of those who seem to think only of whipping negroes, but of those pleasant days, which it is to be hoped are in store for us, when seated behind a good pair of horses we can crack our whips and drive through a peaceful, happy, and prosperous land. With this idea, gentlemen, I must leave you for my business duties.

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Chicago: Abraham Lincoln, "Speech to a Party of Massachusetts Gentleman Washington, March 13, 1862," The Writings of Abraham Lincoln— Volume 5: 1858– 1862, ed. Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1859-1937 in The Writings of Abraham Lincoln—Volume 5: 1858–1862 Original Sources, accessed October 2, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L7M8ZPWK4HCJ3QV.

MLA: Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech to a Party of Massachusetts Gentleman Washington, March 13, 1862." The Writings of Abraham Lincoln— Volume 5: 1858– 1862, edited by Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1859-1937, in The Writings of Abraham Lincoln—Volume 5: 1858–1862, Original Sources. 2 Oct. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L7M8ZPWK4HCJ3QV.

Harvard: Lincoln, A, 'Speech to a Party of Massachusetts Gentleman Washington, March 13, 1862' in The Writings of Abraham Lincoln— Volume 5: 1858– 1862, ed. . cited in , The Writings of Abraham Lincoln—Volume 5: 1858–1862. Original Sources, retrieved 2 October 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L7M8ZPWK4HCJ3QV.