NOT TO “OPEN SHOP” THERE.
President Lincoln was passing down Pennsylvania avenue in Washington one day, when a man came running after him, hailed him, and thrust a bundle of papers in his hands.
It angered him not a little, and he pitched the papers back, saying, “I’m not going to open shop here.”
WE HAVE LIBERTY OF ALL KINDS.
Lincoln delivered a remarkable speech at Springfield, Illinois, when but twenty-eight years of age, upon the liberty possessed by the people of the United States.
In part, he said:
“In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American people, find our account running under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era.
“We find ourselves in the peaceful possession of the fairest portion of the earth as regards extent of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate.