On the recordMarch 9, 1832
But if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.
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In his first public speech, Lincoln expresses his readiness to accept electoral defeat with equanimity, having known disappointment.
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