This State Journal article, written by editor David Atwood, ran on Jan. 31, 1871:
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WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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President Barack Obama, left, speaks in 2009 under Vinnie Ream's marble statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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