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February 13, 1855

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Tuesday, February 13, 1855.
 Springfield, IL.

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Trumbull gives victory party. Lincoln's attendance, though unrecorded, can be assumed. Trumbull's election was his handiwork, and to stay away would give Lincoln the appearance of poor loser and lukewarm opponent of slavery extension. John M. Palmer Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL. 

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Trumbull gives victory party. Lincoln's attendance, though 
unrecorded, can be assumed. Trumbull's election was his handiwork, 
and to stay away would give Lincoln the appearance of poor loser and 
lukewarm opponent of slavery extension.
<bibl default='NO'>John M. Palmer Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
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