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Lincoln's Lost Speech

This tablet marks the site where Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "Lost Speech", May 29, 1856. Placed by Leticia Green Stevenson Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, May 29, 1918.
This plaque marks the site of the Lost Speech.

Lincoln's "Lost Speech" was a speech given by Abraham Lincoln at the Bloomington Convention on May 29, 1856, in Bloomington, Illinois. Traditionally regarded as lost because it was so engaging that reporters neglected to take notes, the speech is believed to have been an impassioned condemnation of slavery.


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