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President Lincoln ‘"Or any other Man."’

--Mr. Lincoln in his speech at Peekskill, on his way from this city to New York, managed to work in the can't phrase of the day ‘"or any other man"’ as follows:

‘ "I will say in a single sentence, in regard to the difficulties that lie before me and our beloved country, that if I can only be generously and unanimously sustained, as the demonstrations I have witnessed indicate I shall be, I shall not fail; but without your sustaining hands I am sure that neither I, nor any other man, can hope to surmount those difficulties."

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The Daily Dispatch: February 26, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. February 26, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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