If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.


Address at New Salem, Illinois [March 9, 1832]


If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much...

If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much...

If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much...

If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much...