SO Scholar Reflects on Lincoln's Trip to Newark
The Newark History Society sponsors 'Lincoln & Newark' at the Newark Public Library
With Presidents' Day ahead, we're re-running this popular article about Lincoln's famed visit to Newark in 1861. When President Abraham Lincoln came to New Jersey in 1861, it was not the friendliest of places for him at the time, explained Rutgers Professor and South Orange resident Thomas McCabe at a presentation by the Newark History Society Wednesday at the Newark Public Library. Lincoln had lost in New Jersey and most of Newark. There was even talk of New Jersey seceding from the Union. This was not because of slave ownership but because of the fact that the factories and industries in the state were dependent on the raw materials provided by the South. Lincoln, like so many presidents before and after him, had to play the centrist, …
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