Quincy, [Illinois]. Bright, beautiful morning — Lincoln is
to be inaugurated President to day, and we all feel great solicitude to hear
that it has been safely and peacefully done. Court commences to day at Carthage
and I am busy getting ready to go up tomorrow — Cloudy, cool afternoon *Got the
inaugural at night by telegraph
SOURCE: Theodore Calvin Pease & James G. Randall,
Editors, Collections of the Illinois
State Historical Library, Volume XX: Lincoln Series, Volume II, The Diary of
Orville Hickman Browning, Volume 1, p. 458
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