Nineteenth Lincoln Birthday Service : Memorial Hall, Chicago, Tuesday, February 12th, 1918
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In connection with that event a certain sum of money was offered by the citizens of Springfield. After some years part of it 13 remained unpaid. There was a movement to let it go by default. Abraham Lincoln characteristi- cally arose and said : "We got the goods ; we promised to pay for them ; we must pay for them.*'' And he got a hundred other men to join with him 'in signing a note for $16,666.66, and the cancelled note, I believe, now adorns the state house at Springfield. It was in trying t...o bring about that very thing that he was accused of trading votes. I take it that most of our political representatives have to in- dulge to some extent in the trading of votes. It depends upon what kind of a vote we give and what kind of a vote we take in trade, so far as the ethics of the practice is concerned. He probably traded some votes. But when his character was accused on that ground he gave utterance to these words, which I have copied down to bring with me. He says : "You may burn my body to ashes, and scat- ter them to the winds of Heaven.
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