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On February 21, 1861, as he journeyed to his inauguration, President Abraham Lincoln spoke from the balcony of the Continental Hotel, then on this site. Referring to “the teachings coming forth from that sacred (Independence) hall,” he proclaimed: “May my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if ever I prove false to those teachings.”
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