Small photograph of Lincoln's desk
 
Lincoln as Writer
 
 
 
 
 
 

The National Park
Service

On his Future, after losing the 1858 Illinois Senatorial Election

November 19, 1858

I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable questions of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone.

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