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The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Mr. Lincoln and the Pennsylvania Delegation. (search)
Mr. Lincoln and the Pennsylvania Delegation. --About five hundred citizens of the State of Pennsylvania went to the White House, on Tuesday, to pay their respects to the new President. They were marshalled into the Eastern room. Mr. Lincoln soon appeared, and was addressed in quite a long speech by Mr. Ketchum, of Luzerne. Mr. Lincoln replied as follows: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Pennsylvania Delegation. As I have so frequently said heretofore, when I have had occasion to address the people of the Keystone in my visits to that State, I can now but repeat the assurance of my gratification at the support you gave me at the late election, and at the promise of a continuation of that support which is now tendered to me. Allusion has been made to the hope that you entertain that you have a President and a Government. In respect to that, I wish to say to you, that in the position I have assumed I wish to do no more than I have ever given reason to believe I woul