November 6, 1860
It is universally conceded that the vote of New-York to-day decides the Presidential question. Every other Northern State is surrendered to LINCOLN. The great West will pronounce for him by enormous majorities. No one has a moment’s doubt about any NewEngland State, and the vote of last month rendered it absolutely certain that Pennsylvania will vote for him by at least 30,000 majority. The decision of the question, therefore, rests with New-York; — and so certain is the vote of the whole interior, that nothing less than forty or fifty thousand against him in the City can cast a shadow of doubt on the result in the State at large.
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I just have to say that I don’t think I’ve ever seen that particular picture of Mr. Lincoln before. All these years, I thought I had seen all of them that there were to see in our school history books and etc., but there you go surprising me again.
Actually, there are quite a number of Lincoln images out on the internet that are different from one’s I had seen in the past. Any without a beard, though, will predate his presidency. By the time he takes office, he will have grown the beard.
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