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I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
Inaugural Address. Sunday Morning Chronicle, Washington, www.gutenberg.org. April 16, 1865.
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