On way from New Haven to Woonsocket, Lincoln stops in New London for three hours. He takes afternoon train to Providence, where several hundred admirers and band meet him and escort him to Woonsocket. At Harris Hall he delivers "one of his most powerful addresses." Percy C. Eggleston, Lincoln in New England (New York: Steward, Warren & Co., 1922), 18, 21-22; Chicago Tribune, 14 March 1860.