Fellow-Citizens of the United States: In compliance with a custom as old as the Government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly ... two years since the first inauguration of a ...

The election of Lincoln prompted the South to begin to withdraw, or secede, from the Union. In his first inaugural address, Lincoln delivered a final plea to the South to remain, but to no avail. War ...

The Feb. 16, 1861, visit was while Lincoln was enroute to his first inauguration and while the nation was on the brink of civil war.

“We present our readers in this issue the inaugural address of President Lincoln,” the Rochester City Post said in its March 16 edition. “It is sensible, straight-forward and ...